William,
The 128, 128, 128 RGB values are for the background color. They can be setup in Control Panel under Display properties . Click the "Appearance" tab and select the small dropdown box named "color" . A small box will appear with 20 colors in it and an "other" button . Click the other button and you will get the advanced dialogue and you can fill in the RGB values directly on the right hand side.
Hope this fits your needs.
🙂
Brent
Brent
Well I went there but here is what is displayed in the drop down color box. I have twenty colors listed from "brick" to "wheat" then two additional choices, "windows standard" and "windows classic", no listing for "other" on the list.
AHHH!
I hate XP, anybody know where it is ? ( I’m using Win2k, but it’s the same in Win98, also ).
William, what you’re describing is called "Schemes" on my pc. Look more to the right center of the Appearance TAB screen for a very small box labelled "color". I suppose it’s possible that its not there, but it’s very easy to overlook.
🙁
Brent
Click the advanced button while on the appearance tab.
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AHHH!
I hate XP, anybody know where it is ? ( I’m using Win2k, but it’s the
same in Win98, also ).
William, what you’re describing is called "Schemes" on my pc. Look
more to the right center of the Appearance TAB screen for a very small box labelled "color". I suppose it’s possible that its not there, but it’s very easy to overlook.
🙁
Brent
Brent I just went poking around through everything I could find about displays, monitors, schemes, appearance, acceleration, etc. on XP Pro, and I couldn’t find it either. Maybe somebody else will come to the rescue.
William, have you tried just running Adobe Gamma without first setting the RGB values? You can create more than one profile, so if you find those settings at a later time you can recalibrate.
Now, this is heresy to some people (Hi Brent!), but I’ve found that I didn’t need to calibrate the CRT I’m currently using on my Mac. I did it, but the results I got after calibration were no better/worse than leaving it at sRGB. The matches I get between what I’m seeing on the monitor and the printed image are so close that I can’t see a variation. That Sony is an extremely good monitor; if you haven’t already, you might want to print a couple of pics and see just how badly it does need to be calibrated. Maybe you’ll find that it doesn’t!
Thanks, James! I got it. Finally. 🙂
In XP it’s under the Appearance tab inside the Advanced button. Beside the Item drop down which probably defaults to Desktop is the Color 1 button. This is what you are looking for.
Well folks, here is the outcome. I followed a number of paths, ended up confused and decided to just go ahead with running the Adobe Gamma Calibrator anyhow. That in itself was an experience and at times I felt unsure of decisions, but made the choices with my fingers crossed and ran through it beginning to end. I must say that my desktop and website appearances came back to a more vibrant life, which is one of the results I was looking for since it seemed that my monitor was a bit "washed out" in colors before I started this project. However, now my on-screen photos seem a bit too dark. I also had not read the tip from "jhjl1" until I went to post this and that tip was right on the money. For some reason I got email notification for the first two posts but none of the others so I didn’t know. My isp bill came yesterday and shows that I was online 167 hours last month and I know I’m offline working another 100+ hours each month so I’m just going to break down and buy one of those Colorvision Spyders. Pricey but what the heck. I’ll charge to calibrate other monitors and recover the overhead eventually. Thanks for all the input, I’ve had a very good first experience with these forums because of y’all. By the way, my printer has always done a super job at printing which is a Photosmart 1215. Once again, thank you.
