Using Huey

[southcoastsounds]

I've just installed and run Huey and found it very easy to set up and use. I like the way it monitors the ambient light in the room and makes appropriate adjusments.

BUT, can anyone advise me please, it seems to have left the screen a little on the dark side. I'm used to using a fairly bright light setting, so perhaps its just correcting an incorrect adjustment I made.

Is this people's usual first reaction to a calibrated monitor?

Thanks in anticipation

Tom

[kevmiami]

Just started using Huey on laptop; didn't see change in brightness, but significant color change - roughly more blue, less yellow. Have not had a chance to print on Epson yet. Will be interesting.

[Codebreaker]

Tom....

I suspect what you are seeing is not unusual. Most present day LCD monitors - if that's what you have, have the Brightness/Contrast set way to high, straight out of the box.

Kev....

Just to note that setting up your monitor correctly doesn't directly effect your printing. It has an indirect effect. If your screen is too blue or has ltoo little yellow then correcting these effects will produce poor prints - too little blue and too much yellow. In other words your correcting screen problems not image problems.

Colin

[southcoastsounds]

Colin

Thanks for that. I have to say, when I print a photograph now, it does look very like what I have on LCD screen. I expect I'll soon get used to the slightly darker image in front of my eyes - and its probably better for my eyes too

Tom