Bucketz1586

Unfortunately, I don't know anyone that has one. I wish I had one, but I'm pretty sure the last one I owned was one of those giant boxes. : )

I may just get one on Amazon and return if I have to. 

I was thinking about buying an external monitor to use with my laptop (when I calibrate it, the blacks turn into dark blobs and I've tried everything to fix it). This might be a very stupid question, but is it possible that whatever is causing that problem would affect the external monitor as well? Or should it be safe to go ahead with getting it? I would rather save the money and put it toward a new laptop if it's not going to work, but the laptop I have is pretty new and runs great otherwise. Any thoughts? And tips for newer monitors for editing would also be appreciated. 

Thanks for your help! I have an email out to x-rite, if I get any useful info I will post it here.

White LED, should I try a different one?

Thanks for that link. I couldn't find any troubleshooting anywhere. I'll read through it now.

I tried that and it made it darker, but still very noticeable. 

Let me do this again.. I took this with my phone of the screen. The same image looks fine when I view it on my phone. 

That's a detail shot. Is it possible that it just looks bad on this particular screen? 

This is just some sky overlay I just downloaded for free on the internet, I'll turn it on asap, thanks! That is so strange. I opened a few others that look fine, it just seems to be the blacks that are not right. I'll see if I can find another one. 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-17-y000-Notebook-PC-series/10862315/model/13386375/document/c05356849/

Ohhh gotcha. Here's the only one I could find for this particular laptop, but I'll keep looking on the HP site. 

http://www.qvc.com/footers/el/pdf/E229953_17inch_Specs.pdf

This one? 

Windows 10, Version 1607

It's definitely the computer. The other laptop looks fine. 

Yep, same thing in Photoshop. 

Yeah, it just seems to be the images. Everything else in Lightroom looks okay. 

Yes I do. Good idea, I'll try that.

Brand new, I've never used it before. I installed an update that it needed but that didn't change anything.

It's a brand new HP laptop. Not plugged into anything. I knew something was wrong because when it showed the test images of before and after, one of them looked like a blob of black. lol

Can anyone help me with this? I calibrated using the instructions on this site (and once using "Easy") and both times it's caused images on my screen to become pixelated. The background photo I have is a default windows photograph and all of the dark parts have lost detail completely. My images in Lightroom all have the same problem. The colored parts of the images don't look sharp at all anymore either. What could I have done wrong? Here's an example... it used to be perfectly sharp.