What’s the temperature of your monitor?
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Printed Date: 12 September 2025 at 10:51pm
Topic: What’s the temperature of your monitor?
Posted By: ice9
Subject: What’s the temperature of your monitor?
Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 8:30am
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You can check it using the controls in front of your monitor. It's a number expressing the color temperature in kelvin degrees. I always used to work with a 9300k (colder colors) but I heard that 6500k (warmer ones) is a more standard choice. There are websites about this topic, and many free or commercial applications to calibrate and profile. Calibrating and profiling is important if you don't want that your last masterpiece looks cool on your monitor and flat or too much dark or too much lighten on your friend's one. On the macs this process is easy and standard, while on pcs (xp or linux, it doesn't matter) it requires a lot of work to get it done in the right way. I'm still workin on it. I wish I could afford a better monitor, by the way, cos mine sucks. ice9 / lostconnection.net ------------- its' a wonder tall trees ain't layin down / there comes a time / (neil young) |
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 9:51am
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you know, 9300 is very very VERY blue! even after i gave myself some time to adjust
anyways, if you want your pieces to look good on most of the monitors, just use the most used temp. (6500) oh and for people that have an old monitor on which you cant check with the buttons on the monitor(like me) you can use PowerStrip, which is allso a nifty overclocker ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 2:15pm
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Whee! I can change my settings with the press of a button. Apparently 9300k is for 'general use' while 6500k is for 'game use'.
I'm on 9300k right now and all the other monitors I've checked my pixels out on look fine and dandy. |
Posted By: ice9
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 4:01pm
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Actually, 6500 is better if you have to deal with printing your
artworks, while 9300 fits better the needing of gfx that will always be
presented with a monitor. Apart from this, the problem is that the
calibration of kelvin degress could be not correct on older monitors
(like mine), so that 6500 is too much warm. Right now i am running a
custom setting (i started from 6500 and tweaked until i got rid of most
of the warm dominant tint). It still looks a bit weird on screen, but
comparing to the prints it is more accurate. ice9 / lostconnection.net ------------- its' a wonder tall trees ain't layin down / there comes a time / (neil young) |
Posted By: Psychotic_Carp
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 7:09am
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its at about 150 f
oh wait nm -------------  got game?
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Posted By: Wiz7896
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 8:24am
 I was gunna say I use my monitor to heat my room. (not really though, but it get's pretty hot.)------------- http://www.kefkasrevenge.net/Wiz/ - My Portfolio |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 18 November 2005 at 8:31am
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My monitor is even colder than my hands :o ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com"> 
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