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‎Jun 02, 2018
11:16 AM
im going to have a go again tomorrow. I'll try using the spyder software again and see how it goes. it's more the fact it stops working after a while or doesnt look good with the exported file even off the macbook. I feel like my macbook air just has trouble running two screens each profiled and one lightroom. I'll have a play tomorrow and I might put my spyder5 express for sale and if it sells I'll maybe try the colourmonki has I have heard it works well with dual screens as it will calibrate them to match as best as possible.
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‎May 31, 2018
02:30 PM
so as usual with colour management it gets very techy very quickly and that's where I start to get lost. the gammas, the luminance. luts and all that. in the past I have followed all the right rules to calibrating my screens. Displaycal seems to do a good job job and runs a nice long calibration process. The problem with the spyder5 express software is I have no choice over white or anything. the express software seems okay with just the macbook but not as well with both monitors. I may have to try again. also in summary, when I plug the external monitor into the macbook and run the calibration and calibrate both monitors and run lightroom or photoshop it seems to run as expected. But then at some point down the road like recently it goes all wacky and seems to get mixed up or something. The only way to match the exported jpeg and lightroom was to reset the macbook colour profile to default. what would be the best solution? get a more advance calibrator like the colourmonki or spyder5 pro and just run that and make life easier? my other option is ditch the external monitor and go back to just working on the macbook screen as it was atleast consistent and didnt demand as much processing power. the new 2k monitor and running lightrrom has been very demanding on my macbook air. software runs much slower and edit sliders have a nice delayed effect. I thought getting a big wide gamut screen and 2k would make edits more enjoyable, but its actually been the opposite. Although the screen looks nice and colour is nice it has been a better work flow for me as the software runs slower and the colour management is stressful
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‎May 30, 2018
01:00 PM
the only way I can check on my mac is to plug in the external monitor and open up display under preferences. The external after runnign with displaycal is is something like viewsonic3211 colour profile and date and the mac display is set to a difference one with whatever I named it at calibration, like macbook cali and date. under display settings it has assigned the right profiles to each monitor. the question is if lightroom gets confused to which display it is on? or why sometimes my mac profile exported files dont match my lightroom. I am thinking the lightroom could be using a different colour profile than the macbook display. hence the difference once the file is exported and displayed independent of lightroom
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‎May 30, 2018
12:57 PM
I've opened them in safari which is colour managed and saw the difference. And I know this was right once I changed my mac air colour profile to the generic lcd profile, lightroom and photoshop then matched the exported file in Safari
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‎May 30, 2018
12:35 AM
It does say multiple monitors which I would think would work. I do know from videos the Spyder 5 pro does have an option within the calibration process that allows you to choose two monitors and it well try to make them look as identical as possible. With the express I dont have the option. I can only calibrate one at a time and then in Mac preferences I just make sure the right profile is assigned for the right monitor. The program has come on my road trip. I exported a file and it was over saturated and contraty but lightroom, photoshop and capture one displayed it as normal. I check the profile and it was the right one from the last calibration. I defaulted it back to LCD profile and when I compared the export jpeg and the editing software they now look the same.
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‎May 30, 2018
12:32 AM
I wondered that. I thought Displaycal could override it as it still creates two profiles one for the viewsonic and one for the mac. Website does say the express can do multiple monitors. I have wondered if its been the version I got. but just have not wanted to sell mine and get a new one. But i also figured many people must have the same set up of mine and should work as expected.
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‎May 29, 2018
02:35 PM
I am sure this has been asked before, but colour management still confuses me. I have macbook Air 2014 running high Sierra 10.13.3 and have always used lightroom with no problem. Progressed to a spyder5 express to calibrate the monitor and that went fine. prints came back fine and colours looked good. the problems came when I got a viewsonic VX3211 wide gamut 2k external monitor to hook up on the Mac to properly edit the photos and get the best colour possible for my raw files. Since then it's just been a headache and have really turned me off editing photos. 1) i can never seem to get the macbook monitor and viewsonic to resemble each other, which I guess should be expected as one is wide gamut? so I try to ediit with only one monitor. 2) when I am travelling and I have to use my macbook for quick edits lightroom struggles with colour. when I export the photos, they export with more contrast and saturation - the fix comes when I put my colour profile back to the default LCD mac profile. Then Lightroom image preview and export image match, but now my colour is not calibrated. (which has just happened, lightroom exports werent matching the previews. gone back to LCD default color profile and now they match, but now I can edit because my screen is no longer calibrated and I dont have a calibrator with me to recalibrate!) I switched to Displaycal to calibrate as the spyder express couldn't get the two monitors to match well, the Displaycal program seems to do a better job. I just get annoyed as every week or something there seems to be a colour profile problems. I really want my set up to function as I want. which would be to calibrate both monitors individually and when I am on the road I can edit with trust the colour is good and the exports appear like the lightroom preview does and then when I get home I can plug in my external monitor. drag my lightroom across and edit on the wide gamut with a smooth work flow transition. since going dual monitor is has just got too technical. is it the mac? the viewsonic? the spyder5 express? Lightroom glitch? displaycal? at the end of the day i dont want two separate work systems. i want this macbook to be able to edit images indepent of each other and also work together.
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