i ve got both my monitor calibrated with SPYDER3 Elite hw
it has created profile for each monitor which is correctly being used for displaying the colors.
what i dont get is that VFB displays the rendered image differently than when you save it :-///
i ve tried using my monitor profile in PS but unfortunatelly it only shows profile of the the main monitor :-/ the other profile is not visible
any idea where are the profiles all saved to?
and
once succesfully located, how do i bring them to PS?
Unfortunately you need to assign the Spyder generated monitor profile to the render in photoshop.
Color management is a pain with computer generated images. It’s much easier with photos.
marc is right of course, when i view rendered images they always look off with programs like the built in windows image viewer. as he said, you have to open them in photoshop and assign the right monitor color profile to them, then they will look right again if you browse them… that is to say, exactly like in the framebuffer of vray/max. else windows will try to display/interpret them as srgb i think and that will be in my case very dull and flat and with a slight color shift (we use hardware calibrated wide gamut nec monitors). it´s a real pain in the a…
and what´s worst, windows image viewer will not use profiles if i switch it to fullscreen mode, then the colors will be off again. in my case with edited images with profile, oversaturated.
Thanks for all the inputs guys!!!
Appreciate your help…i guess i will have to live with the way it is…for PNGs i will have to reapply the monitor profile and for the EXRs i dont have to as they r fine as they are
Its hard to swim in the color management waters really…and i dont even think about how it all looks on the client monitor
Best Regards!
If I can hijack this… I do my photoshop on an other PC and use spyder 3 pro to calibrate my monitors. (dual monitors on my workstation and single on my PS machine)
I have calibrated them all indipendantly and the all view different. Should I apply the same profile to all 3 monitors?
I was tearing my hair out and just kind of gave up colour matching because of this.
we render, open in photohop and apply our monitor color profile to the file, then make all the post production and save out via “save for web and devices” with both options “embed color profile” and “convert to srgb” ticked. that works quite well. if we do it not this way for some reason, we only give out files with our own color profile embedded, this works also quite well. but i guess you can´t do anything against architects using very cheap TN panel LCD monitors and uncalibrated awful printers and then telling you the images are strange…
Greg:
its strange your getting very different results calibrating two same monitors.
Are you sure they r doth se to its defaults prior to the calibrating? (same color tone, RGB, brightness, contrast etc.?)
Keep in mind that the VFB performs a sRGB display color correction, whereas PNG files store a gamma correction. There are minor, but obvious differences between the two, especially for relatively dark colors.
