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Photographer

Hemera Visuals

Posts: 21

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hey guys just bought your product , i have a question
I will be using my HP external monitor for all my photographic editing and thats the screen i want to color calibrate, the screen i also use for my xbox. After calibrating the first time would that stay same everytime i switched the monitor from pc to xbox or would i have to re calibrate everytime since its been used for two seperate things?

hope this makes sense

Regards Cam

Jan 08 13 03:16 pm Link

Photographer

B R U N E S C I

Posts: 25319

Bath, England, United Kingdom

The calibration profile will be stored on the PC so as long as it is loaded then the monitor will be calibrated.






Just my $0.02

Ciao
Stefano
www.stefanobrunesci.com

Jan 08 13 03:50 pm Link

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Krunoslav Stifter

Posts: 3884

Santa Cruz, California, US

-B-R-U-N-E-S-C-I- wrote:
The calibration profile will be stored on the PC so as long as it is loaded then the monitor will be calibrated.






Just my $0.02

Ciao
Stefano
www.stefanobrunesci.com

Yeah, pretty much. It's just a little piece of data that tells your video card how to correct the monitor according to the settings you set when calibrating. If it doesn't load automatically you can do it manually typically using the software that comes with the calibration device.

Jan 08 13 03:59 pm Link

Photographer

Hemera Visuals

Posts: 21

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

would this be the same if i were to use a laptop guys ?

smile

Jan 08 13 04:08 pm Link

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Krunoslav Stifter

Posts: 3884

Santa Cruz, California, US

Hemera Visuals  wrote:
would this be the same if i were to use a laptop guys ?

smile

I see no reason why not. Laptop is just mobile PC. It has the same OS and everything else.

Jan 08 13 04:10 pm Link

Photographer

Hemera Visuals

Posts: 21

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

smile thanks all for the helpful information. Been waiting 3 days for datacolor to get back to me (its a spyder pro) i bought , priority to them my ass.

Have a good day smile

Jan 08 13 04:18 pm Link