Checking monitor calibration

tipsinartok

Hope this is the right forum. I just used a free program (I think it was called Monitor Calibration Wizard) to calibrate my monitor. Everything looks really dark to me now though. I can't decide if I did the calibration wrong and should redo it, or if it's right and I have to get used to it.

I was wondering if anyone with a properly calibrated monitor would mind looking at my website and let me know if the brown bar across the bottom and top stand out or if they blend into the background. Pre-calibration they were very clear and easy to see, now I can barely make them out. I'm not looking for critique on the site itself, that is something I threw together in about 30 minutes just playing around with colour and style and pictures (and it's not done right now anyway), just curious how the brown bar looks.

Thanks!

arodney

Are you using an instrument to conduct the calibration and build a display profile?

This might help:
http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200412_rodneycm.pdf

BobbyMarshall

Yes, the brownish bars are definitely are separated from the black background.

I just got myself an eyeone display 2, calibrator. I don't plan on doing any printing at home for sale anytime in the immediate future, so I did not need calibrators that also did printer, and scanner calibration, etc.

Before I got the calibrator I used http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ there are many separate tests here, the intro page for the tests is where the link starts. If you are using a LCD display, I highly recomend that manual calibration site..

This manual calibration seemed to work the best for me, until I got the eyeone, then I really noticed a difference in my color correction, mainly the contrast of the darker colors blending togather in the past. which seems like similar to what you are having.