Owner`s manual

Page 5, Data Sheet 4020, rev: Saturday, October 06, 2007
Be sure that you have correctly installed the full version (not the ELEMENTS version) of Photoshop on your computer.
All monitors have controls on the front that allow you to set the BRIGHTNESS, CONTRAST and COLOR. If your
monitor is new-out-of-the-box it is probably set up correctly. You can leave it alone for the time being. If it is a little
older, then you might want to be sure that the BRIGHTNESS is set up to a general HIGH level. CONTRAST should also
be set up sort of high in order to produce a nice, bright, crisp picture. The COLOR controls should be adjusted so that the
monitor creates a nice, neutral, shade of gray. If you have a selection for setting the color ―temperature‖ of the monitor try
setting it to 6300 Kelvin. Then, be sure that any neutral gray colors on your monitor are really ―neutral‖. You might have
to adjust the color guns a little to obtain a truly neutral appearance on your monitor if it is a few years old. Now that you
have the monitor set-up, it is time to use Adobe Gamma to finish fine-tuning the monitor set-up.
Make sure that your monitor has been turned on for at least half an hour, to stabilize the monitor display. I use a
ViewSonic, 21”, LCD, VX2000, 600:1 contrast-ratio monitor driven by an 256MB AGP (ATI Radeon X300) video card.
My monitor can be set to a resolution as high as 1600x1200, although I usually operate it at 1280 x 1024, with the
ADVANCED setting of FONTS at the ―large‖ setting option. Not all video cards will permit Adobe Gamma to work. If
Adobe Gamma does not “work” on your computer, you need a different video card.
I cannot guarantee that these calibrating instructions will work well with inexpensive monitors driven by low resolution
video cards. But, hey – anything is worth a try!
Set the room lighting at the level you plan to use. Avoid bright background lights; bright overhead lights; and brightly
colored walls in the immediate area around your monitor.
Turn off any desktop ―wallpaper‖ patterns and change the background color on your monitor to a light gray color. This
prevents the background color from interfering with your color perception and helps you adjust the display to a neutral
gray color.
Use the manual controls on your monitor to turn up the BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST to their maximum high
settings. Then OPEN Control Panel and find the Adobe Gamma icon. Double click to open it.
maximum high settings.
Then OPEN Control Panel and find the Adobe Gamma icon. Double click to open it.
Next, it is time to tell Photoshop a little
more about how you want it to deal