How to calibrate LCD color monitor ?

[SingSing]

I was dismay with the in-fidelity of LCD monitors playback on my PC, especially at 6500K color temperature. On two of my LCD monitors, the bright skin tone going from bright flesh color to grayish-blue shadow. I switched these LCD monitors to the other color temperature at 9300K, yields dimmer and much colder pictures.
All LCD monitors include a custom color setup. I intend to use them to setup a custom profile get a warmer picture without the grayish/blue artifact. I found this calibration picture online, will this and a good eye ball good enough to calibrate color LCD monitor?



I also have Nokia color calibration CD somewhere, for my CRT monitor. Will that work for LCD monitor? Since LCD monitor don’t really have contrast.

Note : I look at the setting on those identical 22” Dell color monitors at work, and found out they are all set with different RGB level. Does this means all LCD monitors have to calibrate individually?

[suppafreak]

Yes, each LCD monitor could have different settings. CRT color calibrator will not work on the LCD monitor, the best way to calibrate the LCD monitor is to buy an LCD color calibrator. The calibrators are not cheap, but they will do great job. There are several different ones, and here are some

Pantone huey Monitor Color Calibrator
ColorVision Spyder2 Express
ColorVision Spyder2 Suite
ColorVision Spyder2 Plus
ColorVision Spyder2 PRO
Eye-One Display 2

I personally tried the ColorVision Spyder2 Plus and did not like it. The software is missing the brightness and contrast setting, which is very important in LCD monitors. I also tried the high end Gretad Macbeth calibration and that one does a perfect job of calibration the monitor. Unfortunately that one cost over $1000.

[sefi]

Outdated advice. I got a sweet deal for $300 for CalPC and an M2 meter. Ive been calibrating all my monitors, my friends monitors etc. What you need is a good meter for calibrating, but you need software that does it well. CalPC is SPECIFICALLY for pc monitors, they also have CalMAN For tvs but i havnt used that. And it does the whole thing in like 15 minutes!

go with Spectracal Monitor Calibration Software and check it out.