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[Damien Symonds]

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Write down your settings

Next month, when you launch the Spyder software to recalibrate, it should remember the settings you used.  But never take that for granted.  I strongly recommend writing down your settings (eg 6500 and 80, or whatever) so you can refer to it next month.

You're done!

That's calibration taken care of for this month. Press "Quit":

You can get on with editing your images.  Next month you can go to the beginning of my instructions then jump straight ahead to the recalibration instructions.  Recalibration is fast and easy, I promise.

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[Jessica Eastman]

DUMB question alert....

But once the screen is calibrated to the prints, its as easy as noting the settings and leaving them alone? you wouldn't suggest changing the settings after that even if they are not what you suggested? What if the prints are not where you want the colors and stuff to be even though they match? 

[Damien Symonds]

These are not dumb questions at all.

1 minute ago, Jessica Eastman said:

But once the screen is calibrated to the prints, its as easy as noting the settings and leaving them alone? you wouldn't suggest changing the settings after that even if they are not what you suggested?

That's tricky for me to answer.

Ultimately, the purpose of monitor calibration is to make your screen match your prints.  So from that perspective, yes, you'd just leave everything alone once you achieved your goal.

However, if your settings have ended up wildly different from the recommended settings, it really does point to a problem with your room light.

What settings did you end up with?

3 minutes ago, Jessica Eastman said:

What if the prints are not where you want the colors and stuff to be even though they match? 

That's why you calibrate!

If the prints are "not where you want the colours and stuff" it's because you edited those photos on an inaccurate screen.  Now that your screen is accurate, you can edit those photos again, the way you want them to look.

[Jessica Eastman]

I was able to get the print to screen pretty dangggg close after adjusting some things in the spydertune section. very tedious process but I got it to work! thank you!!