new monitor, calibration software?

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:24 pm

picked up an acer x243w (on the staples deal, $280 for a good 24" widescreen lcd..) and am running it along with my older acer al1916w 19" widescreen. The main issue i'm having is dealing with color matching between the two..

anyway.. can anyone reccomend me some good (free, preferably.. I try to avoid pirated software these days) calibration software, hopefully something that will walk me through it.. not really that interested in monitor calibration to spend hours on the subject.....

Post by **Francious70** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:27 pm

Open MS paint on both monitors, and pick the same colors, green red and blue (one at a time), and adjust your monitors color settings (the menu on the monitor itself).

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:39 pm

that would be too easy..

joyride · Post by **joyride** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:42 pm

get a spyder 2...with the new spyder 3 comig out, the prices should be dropping on the 2's

HoseHead · Post by **HoseHead** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:29 am

We use this SW when tuning a room.

http://www.displaymate.com/

Let me check on the file size of this application and perhaps I can throw in on a server.....

HH

HoseHead · Post by **HoseHead** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:02 am

It's only 275Kb zipped.