Kate00 Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 Hi Damien After correspondence with you over the weekend I have read your info re calibration and monitors I have found an affordable calibrator Datacolour Spyer5Express however I went and had a chat with the local Electronic store re monitors. He basically told me it wont matter what type or quality of monitor I get if my Media card size in laptop is small. He said anything 512(???) or more would be ideal. Does this sound right to you?
Damien Symonds Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 Gosh, this would only be true if your laptop was VERY old and VERY cheap. What kind of laptop do you have? Can you give me a link to details about it? The manufacturer's website or whatever?
Kate00 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Posted May 15, 2018 Im at work at the moment so will check the details when I get home. Cant remember model but it is about 3 years old....is that considered old these days? I will provide more detail later tonight re laptop. Thank you
Damien Symonds Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 In this context, no, three years shouldn't be an issue.
Kate00 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Posted May 15, 2018 Ok so i have a Toshiba Satellite..cant find any info on media card as such but i did find this detail....does it mean anything to you? Hope you can see this ok
Damien Symonds Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 This looks absolutely fine. It probably wouldn't handle a massive 4K or 5K screen, but any normal screen it'll cope just fine. Do you have a screen (or even a TV) around the house that you can plug in and check?
Kate00 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Posted May 15, 2018 I have plugged it into a Smart Tv a few times and everything seemed fine. So what was this guy going on about?. He was saying that the resolution of the lap top may not translate very well to a monitor. I found a monitor on line that is IPS ..these specs ok and is wide screen ok or a bit of a waste of time
Damien Symonds Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 I dunno if he was yanking your chain trying to make you buy a whole new computer; or maybe he's just a dunce. Those specs look good.
Kate00 Posted May 15, 2018 Author Posted May 15, 2018 Excellent..so i shouldnt have any issues if i buy a monitor such as this to connect to laptop and then use spyder5 express data colour calibrator on this monitor or similar.....if you feel that this is an appropriate way to go - dont expect your guarantee on items but if this is the correct path to take to get the best on a budget in regards to editing quality then this is what i will work on over the coming weeks.
Damien Symonds Posted May 15, 2018 Posted May 15, 2018 It's absolutely the correct path, yes. Get the calibrator first, if you can't buy both at once. That way, you can calibrate your laptop screen and get cracking with editing right away.
Kate00 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Posted July 5, 2018 Hi Damian - have a question regarding resolution of the image i am about to organise in readiness to do my screen calibration, (by the way Frank at Frontier was very helpful on the phone) I am posting the question here as it may assist someone else Frank has stated he needs the file to be 300 pixle inch resolution (think i have this right) to get the best result. Can you advise how i tell easily what resolution my image is and can i or how do i increase it to 300 pixle inch resolution? I have a couple of JPEG images that i want to use and i use Elements 12 Thank you for your assistance through all of this
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 Hi Kate, it's very easy. To help me assist, could you open one of your photos in PS, then choose your Crop Tool, then show me a screenshot of your whole screen? And yes, Frank is great.
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 Holy crap! NO! NEVER open a PSD in ACR. Just in Photoshop, please.
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 Yep, perfect. Now, what size are you going to print it?
Kate00 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Posted July 5, 2018 umm dont know..we didnt discuss size he just mentioned the resolution...its just for calibration,,,does that matter at this point?
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 What? Of course you have to choose a size! It's printing!
Kate00 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Posted July 5, 2018 well i didnt at this point...i was just thinking the good ol 6 x 4 for calibration purposes
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 Right! Good. So, in the Options Bar at the bottom of the screen, you type "4in" in the Width field, "6in" in the Height field, and "300" in the resolution field. Then crop your photo. When you commit the crop, it will shrink on screen. Now it's at exactly 6x4 size (at the 300 ppi that Frank asked for) ready for you to save as a jpeg and send to him.
Damien Symonds Posted July 5, 2018 Posted July 5, 2018 May I see the whole screenshot? So I can see your crop tool settings?
Kate00 Posted July 5, 2018 Author Posted July 5, 2018 Think i worked it out..setting was in cm not inches Sorted
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