Calibrating your monitor is critical for image professionals (or serious hobbyists).
Monitor Calibration
Calibrate Your Monitor
Wikipedia - Monitor Calibration
Calibrate your LCD Monitor
have any of your own tips/stories about monitor calibration to tell? please share
Rafa also shares these links from this thread:
Rafa wrote:This are some hardware colorimeters:
Xrite
http://www.xritephoto.com/
Spyder
http://spyder.datacolor.com/index_us.php
There are some other brands... but I don't remember them now.
Just for the record: I don't really know this, but THX it seems a glasessometer calibration system Very Happy
http://www.thx.com/home/dvd/blueGlasses.html
This is somehow oriented to dvd, blu-ray, hdtv, consumer calibration. It's interesting but for computer... I'm not sure.