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hi! Is it possible to having 2 monitors on the same machine make B monitor match A monitor or the other way around?
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In color managed applications, yes, with some limitiations. E.g. if one monitor has a bigger gamut than the other, and the material being viewed exceeds the gamut of the other monitor, then some colors on it (those outside its gamut) will still look different. Matching the whitepoints during adjustment is also key to get a good match.
So I just calibrate both lets says to have the minimum possible black, same white intensity, like 120 for example, and same color temperature like 6500 for example and that should make both screens to look similar with apps like Photoshop for example?
In a sense yes, although you probably may want to pick one screen, calibrate & profile it, and then calibrate & profile the second one to the first by choosing the same parameters except setting whitepoint to “As measured” (make sure “Interactive display adjustment” is enabled as well) and then match the second monitor’s white point to the first one’s purely visually (by eye), not paying too much attention to the instrument readouts during the adjustment phase. This usually gives the best visual match, but can be tricky to pull off especially if the monitors are different models.
Unfortunately white match in an interactive way is not possible with the laptop screen, it have no controls 🙂
and to be honest, the Eizo is the one I trust as a model to emulate, not the laptop.
A bit OT, but is really annoying that Windows can not color manage its own desktop. If you have an image on the background desktop, and one monitor is a wide gamut monitor and the other is a regular gamut monitor the background images will loot totally different. And I’m talking about images with mild colors not out of gamut colors.
Unfortunately white match in an interactive way is not possible with the laptop screen, it have no controls 🙂
In that case, I’d try how good a match you can achieve just by choosing the same whitepoint target (and using appropriate correction/measurement mode for each monitor). If it’s acceptable, then good. If not, as the laptop screen doesn’t have controls, the best thing you can do is match the Eizo white to the Laptop white, as awkward as this may sound.
