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Bought a $40 art display tablet at a garage sale in Denver and the color calibration was so off it made me rethink all my work
Spent two hours fixing it with a free calibration tool, but now I'm wondering how many other folks out there are unknowingly posting neon green as moss green, anyone else run into this with older screens?
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fionafoster1d ago
Free calibration tools are actually pretty hit or miss for color accuracy compared to hardware calibrators, especially on older screens. If you had a cheap TN panel from ten years ago, it might literally be incapable of showing correct greens no matter what software you use. Your posted colors could still be off by a noticeable amount, so double checking against a known reference image might be worth the time.
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grantw4121h ago
Double check against @fionafoster's suggestion too those reference images are a lifesaver for old screens.
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Ha, tell me about it. I once spent a whole month painting digital portraits thinking I was nailing this perfect olive skin tone, only to pull them up on my phone and realize I'd been painting swamp monster green the whole time. My poor clients were probably wondering why they looked like Shrek's cousins in their commission photos. Now I just stick a physical color card next to my screen once a week as a reality check. Saves me from the heartbreak of realizing my "moss green" foliage was basically radioactive slime.
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