Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Posted February 17, 2017 I got a new laptop for Christmas and was super excited about it being 4k. Fastforward a few months and I am having nothing but problems. I can't get this thing calibrated for my life. Everything is very contrasty and very pink/warm. I've tried changing up the white point and that didn't seem to make a difference. I'm playing with the luminence, but I have no idea what I'm doing (doesn't seem to be making much of a difference, anyway). Now I'm desperate because I've got a few actual client shoots this weekend.
Damien Symonds Posted February 17, 2017 Posted February 17, 2017 Hi Sarah, may I have a link to details about your laptop? Also, remind me which calibrator you have?
Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 Hi Damien! It's been a while, hope all is well with you! This is the laptop http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/omen-best-value-laptop-(173)-w6s63av-1 and I have the colormunki display.
Damien Symonds Posted February 17, 2017 Posted February 17, 2017 Ok, let's get the big things out of the way first. Have you checked that the calibrator isn't faulty? By calibrating another computer in the house with it?
Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 It had been calibrating my previous laptop pretty well up until I switched laptops. Would you like to give it a go on the other one just to see if that's changed?
Damien Symonds Posted February 17, 2017 Posted February 17, 2017 Well, the absolute best option would be to plug a desktop screen into your new laptop and calibrate that. Is that option available to you?
Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 Nope, only laptops in this house :-/
Damien Symonds Posted February 17, 2017 Posted February 17, 2017 Crap. Then ok, yes, calibrate your old laptop to check. That way, you've got it to edit on this weekend if needed.
Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 Other than being brighter on my screen, the other laptop checks out.
Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 Ah! I was messing around in settings and went to see if I could manually calibrate and it gave me a warning saying something about a wide gamut....I remember seeing that in your tutorial. Tried it out and HOLY CRAP! THAT FINALLY FIXED IT!
Meetmow Posted February 17, 2017 Author Posted February 17, 2017 I've been trying to edit on that damn thing for 3 months and it was like looking at one of those old school gifs that only had 128 colors! Totally editing blind. Now that I know it's wide gamut do I need to do anything special for saving for web or anything else?
Damien Symonds Posted February 18, 2017 Posted February 18, 2017 https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/08/buying-wide-gamut-screen.html
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