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Hawktoey · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:16 am

I have a Dell notebook, I want to use for paiinting away from home. My home system is calibrated, but the Dell isn't. I have done searches for this on the net but get page after page of Monitor Calibrations, not anything that resembles something for notebooks screens. The software I used on my Home PC doesn't work with the notebook. Does anyone know of a calibration technique for notebooks?

Any help would be appreciated. As it stands now all my images created on the notebook look washed out when viewed from my Desktop PC.

B0b · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:55 am

u'll b lucky.. friends of mine have the same laptops and they get totally different colours with the same sertup.. (dells btw)

Drunken Monkey · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:03 pm

Have you tried different color profiles? I don't have a laptop but i do have LCD... the dark range was missing with default profile but now that its tuned it looks richer than CRT.
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Hawktoey · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:32 am

Okay, I reset the "monitor" back to defualt, loaded a profile, and there was an option for a scheme so looked into it and no it's not the same as a desktop scheme. So loaded a Photoshop 1997 scheme. This brought it back to something a little better than it was, but it is still off in richness of an image. I am still waiting for Dell to answer my email on this as well. I might have to settle for doing line work only in it as black and white will always look black and white where ever it is. Thank you both for replying. It was a bit of help. I am going to write Dell again and see if they can direct me to some up to date profiles/schemes as well.

Jason_Manley · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 8:46 am

i got a new dell this morning...have been playing with the monitor settings on the laptop since the moment i turned it on....i have a sony right now as well and the sony is much richer in contrast.....though I dont like the sony too much at all for other reasons

so...I went into the display properties by right clicking on the screen...then i went to advanced...and click the gforce 4200 button which brings me to a window that has brightness..contrast...and hue adjustments....however...toggling those scroll controls does nothing...why why why?

any ideas???

I too am trying to increase contrast and tweak the color settings....not having much luck other than the two buttons already maxed out for brightness contrast on the keypad.

any help is appreciated.

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Hawktoey · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 3:32 am

Got an answer back from Dell Techs. They told me to re-install the drivers for the display. I did and it helped. I think it's going to be as close to what I can get. They also said to hook the laptop up to a crt monitor and try adjustments this "will set you laptop to a crt output" yeah and when I want red will it be orange? I guess LCD's need to be improved more so that they can represent truely what one sees.

Jason - I would recommend that you re-install the drivers, then load a profile/scheme it helped me to get mine close. As far as why your sliders don't change anything -- you might want to give Dell a shout. Or go to their knowledge base on the web site and see if someone else had this problem.