Hello,
and thank you for the reply.

"Paul Simon" wrote:

I have bit of experience with Color Munki but the idea for profile adjustment is the same. Gamma of 2.2 is recommended these days for all calibration. You may see comments about setting gamma to 1.8 for Macintosh but that was due to a quirk in printing many years ago. Mac people generally set color temperature to 5000K vs. 6500 for Windows. This is not really significant, especially for the issue you presented. I assume you are driving the TV from the laptop. You have created <two> profiles, one for the laptop display and one for the TV. Be sure you switch the color profiles to match the laptop or TV as needed.

I CAN drive the TV from the laptop, but usually I don't. I plug my usb memory stick either directly in the usb port of the TV or in the usb port of the digital satellite receiver which is connected to the TV by HDMI.
Playback of the test files from the Spyder 3 test DVD via the DVD player (also connected via HDMI) gives good results,
but it seems that display of jpeg files via the TV's as well as the SatRec's usb port is bad. (Most time I use the SatRec because the TV displays the jpeg files in arbitrary order while the SatRec displays them sorted by file name.)
Meanwhile I downloaded several test pictures from the internet, especially one which displays a grayscale in fine steps. Displayed via the TV usb port, the last three gray levels at the white end of the scale are indistinguishable, while the dark end grays are much too bright.
Displayed via the SatRec usb port, three gray levels at each the dark and the white end are indistinguishable.
Adjusting TV's brightness and contrast does not help in both cases, it only affects the middle tones.

I will try whether driving the TV from the laptop gives better results, but I wonder why most unedited pictures from several digicams are displayed well via the SatRec's usb port while those test pictures and the edited pictures are not.

There will be color gamut differences too, But that is a secondary issue here.

Good luck!

Paul Simon

"Wilfried" wrote in message

(originally posted in comp.graphics.apps.photoshop, re-posted here)
Hello all,
I am editing my photos on a laptop (yes, I know that a laptop screen is suboptimal for this), presenting them on a LCD TV screen (Sony KDL-32EX402) and some of them are to be printed on an inkjet printer or a commercial printing service.

I experienced that most jpegs coming from cameras are displayed satisfactory on the laptop as well as on the TV, and also on printouts.
But the best pictures come from high contrast photos (such as back-light or dawn). I shoot them in RAW and reduce the high contrast by editing them on the laptop. These photos either look well on the laptop but are much too bright on the TV or are OK on the TV and much too dark on the laptop.
I purchased a colorimeter (Spyder 3 Elite) and started calibrating the monitors (both the laptop and the TV). I found that using the default Spyder 3 setting of gamma 2.2 for the monitor does not solve the problem. If I set gamma to 1.4 in Spyder 3, the photos are looking quite similar on the laptop and the TV, but now they are looking too dark on other PCs. (I did not yet test printout of these photos.)
Now my question: Which gamma setting in Spyder 3 is preferable for calibrating the laptop monitor?
Or, how can I achieve good results on the TV as well as on printouts?
Thanks for any hints,
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