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Do you think it's worth it? I know a guy with pro equipment who can do it, but is there really sense in doing it on such an LCD? I know calibration on Mac Pro works like a charm, but looking at that LCD is a different thing. I would however like to do some basic photo editing in Photoshop, but hence the "bad" viewing angles etc- is calibration worth the time?
Thanks

the problem with the X300 display is that it's only 250:1 contrast, 45% NTSC gamut, and 6-bit.   even if properly calibrated, you're still using a limited piece of hardware in terms of specs.   basic photo editing is ok but color-critical work should always be done on an external display.   calibration definitely won't turn this display into a sony SZ or macbook air.

given that, whether it's worth it or not is ultimately up to you.

I used a free app called Monitor Calibration Wizard to create a profile for my machine. It really didn't turn out as well for the X300 as it did for my other machines, and there is an issue with the profile being applied after a reboot or sleep (Vista). Eventually, I just used the color adjustment in the Intel Display app to get it in the ballpark. My TMD display has a natural reddish tinge. I was able to tweak that out which helped to balance everything out. As Erik mentioned if you need to do color critical work then you need to use an external monitor.

the thing is why not?

if it dont cost you too much time or money

the out come can be positive no matter what~~

Now here's the thing. I went to a professional who calibrates monitors of different brands/makes. First of all, the X300 display is too bright when all bars are filled. I dim it down 4 steps to get apx. 102 cd/m2 and then the calibration went fine setting white point to 5000K. The problem that I have now is that once I restart my PC, the profile is gone !!! I can not use it, although it's listed as default in color management (vista).

Can anyone please help !!

Could you please measure the brightness in lowest possible level ? Thanks.

I've figured out how to use ICC profile my X300 was calibrated with/for... It's called DisplayProfile and it "removes" the Bug in Vista's WCS tables.

The monitor is three bars down and photos I've edited and sent to press printing are more than good. At least much better than before calibration. My X300 display had a magenta/cyan tint, resulting in "colder" white. Once calibrated, monitor is good enough for at least basic photo editing/retouching. Probably not by far good enough for serious professionals, but which laptop is

I can't measure brightness in lowest possible level as I've put my X300 to be calibrated by a professional and thus, i don't own the equipment nor knowledge to do it. Sorry.

jamess wrote:I've figured out how to use ICC profile my X300 was calibrated with/for... It's called DisplayProfile and it "removes" the Bug in Vista's WCS tables.

Can you please explain in more details about DisplayProfile fix?

I calibrated my X300 with Eye-One2 hardware calibrator. This hardware comes with a software that applies custom ICC profile upon windows start-up. It works just fine on my T43p, but there is a problem with x300. What happening is that the application loads the customer ICC profile, but after a few settings the screen settings get reset. I suspect Intel graphics driver is to blame for this. But I'm not sure how to workaround this problem.

Problem is with Vista, not X300. You therefore need to give it a go with workaround which includes a very tiny program called DisplayProfile.exe and all you have to do it run it, select your new calibrated ICC and thats it. You need to run it everytime vista gets unlocked, as there is no other way. I've investigated this matter and read forums, but there seems to be no better solution no matter what you do with Color Management in vista - unfortunately. It's a bug MS ackowledges or how's it called...