Monitor issues??

[Forseti]

Originally Posted by KeithT

Now with Windows 7 colour calibration being very good too, I can calibrate before each photoshop session with ease. Worth having W7 just for that.

Depending on the monitor and / or calibration device owned I would exercise caution opting for the Windows 7 in-built method as this is also a visual calibration and not too much different to the one that Adobe used to have bundled with their own applications (forget the name now) and which has long since been discontinued due to it's ineffectiveness.

Simply for purposes of experimentation I myself tried the W7 in-built calibration but received the following pop-up window: The display currently uses a wide gamut colour profile. The Display Colour Calibration will create a colour profile with a conventional gamut which may be a poor fit for this display and result in distorted colour appearance.

Needless to say I didn't proceed any further with the exercise. My monitor is a simple run-of-the-mill 25" Medion calibrated using an i1Display2

[KeithT]

I have never had that pop-up warning Forseti. My monitor is a HP w2207 wide screen which has a built-in colour profile for video and photo editing which I leave switched on in the monitor's menu all the time. 99% of the time this runs perfectly well, but just to satisfy my self I run through the W7 calibration which works well for me as well.

I guess you were right not to proceed after that warning. A lot of people are using monitors that were designed for office work and web surfing and not photo editing. This seems OK for the most part, but unless one has a monitor suited to photo editing I hardly see the sense in trying to calibrate one that isn't intended for the job anyway. I could be wrong though.

I know monitors for photo editing are expensive, but a good gaming monitor is better for editing than the DELL type monitors apart from their Ultra Sharp monitor I think.