Monitor Calibration?

So recently at work, Jordan (we work together, he's in our IT dept.) got me 2 new flat screen monitors. My old ones were weird and sometimes fuzzy.

So, all was well with PS. It asked me something about monitor calibration once, but then never again.

So today I open her up to edit some photos, and my "white" isn't white. It's cream.

How do I fix it??

I went into the color profile and selected the monitors profile. So I now have a white, white.

But will everything then look weird when I get them at home since it's a different color profile??

I guess I'll just have to play with the pictures and see

Should we open up your "own" forum for you Col...so you can be alone with yourself!!!

I feel like La or the Fizzter, LOL!

I use the Spyder2Express thingy. I printed a sample after and it comes pretty close to what I see on my screen. That is really the only way you can tell- print something.

And what you see in PS is not what you will see in Windpws Exporer. I don't know why but Windows Explorer does not hold the calbration. What I print, view in FF, view in ACDsee and view in PS is different than what I see in explorer. Weird, huh?

But you have to watch those color profiles- mine got changed on accident once and messed up a bunch of stuff before I caught it.

Thanks Amanda. I played with some photos just now, but I'm gonna wait to scrap anything until I get them home to see what they look like there. I'll probably print one out to see too. My only concern is that a warning came up that the photos had a different color profile. So I dunno. Guess I'll have to wait and see.

That is an automatic warning you get anytime a different profile is being used that is not the standard PS profile. I just click the ignore button and move on.

Ok. That's what I figured, but I don't want to take any chances on doing anything more just yet. I'll have it figured out by tonight hopefully

Thanks Amanda!