SXP-13

[Damien Symonds]

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Brightness

The device will take a minute to read black, red, green, blue and white. Then it will pause here:

At the top it will tell you the Target brightness is 120. This is a nonsense in-built target which is too high for everybody, and I wish Datacolor would wise up and change it.

If your screen matches your prints at 120, your office must be lit by football stadium floodlighting, and your power bill must be horrendous!

Don’t worry, what we’re doing here is setting a new target, based on the adjustment you made to your screen before we started.

So your Current brightness reading should definitely be lower than 120. You can see mine is at 98, because my office is quite well-lit. Generally speaking, yours should be between 70 and 100. If so, press “Continue” right away:

(During my testing I found that it made me press “Update” before I could press “Continue”.  I’m not sure if this will happen to you too. It’s no problem if it does.)

BUT … if it’s lower than 70 or higher than 100, I’m sorry, but I kinda need you to stop here, turn your light back on, and go right back to the start, and re-visit your print matching from Part 1. In good light, you really should have a print match somewhere between 70 and 100.

If you can’t be bothered starting over, adjust your screen’s brightness until it’s at approximately 80. That should be a safe area for most people.

IMPORTANT: Don’t forget to hit the “Update” button if you make a brightness adjustment. It will take a moment to re-read, then show you the new number.

Press “Continue” to move on:

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[Victoria Knight]

Hi Damian, 

Mine came back at 67. If I adjusted my monitor brightness one stop higher it went to 100. So I left it at 67. Is this ok?

[Damien Symonds]

Almost  certainly yes.

[Victoria Knight]

Thank you 

[Damien Symonds]

However, the jump shouldn't be that big.  Remember:  DO NOT USE THE BRIGHTNESS BUTTONS ON YOUR KEYBOARD!

Only use the slider in the Display panel.

[Victoria Knight]

Oh! Hang on. I've done this wrong then. Where do I find the display panel? 

[Damien Symonds]

1 minute ago, Victoria Knight said:

Oh! Hang on. I've done this wrong then. Where do I find the display panel? 

I talked about it way back at the start of the instructions: https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/34584-sxp-04/

[Victoria Knight]

Just found that, apologies!

 

[Victoria Knight]

I have adjusted brightness using the display panel, as you advised. When I checked it on the keyboard it is only on two bars of brightness. Does this seem wildly low or doesn't matter?

 

[Damien Symonds]

Most Mac users say 1 or 2 bars.  Very normal, yes.

[Victoria Knight]

Oh phew. That's a relief, thank you!

[Jessica Miller]

I bought a Asus laptop and it’s not giving me this option. It goes directly to finished. But when I did it on my desktop I had the option. 

[Damien Symonds]

49 minutes ago, Jessica Miller said:

I bought a Asus laptop and it’s not giving me this option. It goes directly to finished. But when I did it on my desktop I had the option. 

It's not stopping to allow you to adjust brightness, do you mean?

[Jessica Miller]

Yes

[Damien Symonds]

Wow, that's very strange.  You definitely set it to "Adjust" here?

[KJP2023]

Hi Damien, 

 

I calibrated my laptop (which I have an HDMI cable connecting it to my LG monitor). Should I now be callibrating my LG monitor in addition to my Macbook laptop? It doesn't seem to want to let me bring over the Spyder device to put it on my LG monitor. 

 

Thanks. 

[Damien Symonds]

Yes, you definitely should calibrate it, but remember the process will be slightly different.  https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/39009-xpropc-01/