Datacolor User to User Support Group.

>I tried Lightroom but have gone back to just PS for my needs at this 
>point. I believe that LR now supports dual monitors so you can do the 
>same thing under it - one monitor for the image and one for the editing 
>tools.

 

I don't think this was ever an application level limitation.  I have run LR
since the first version on a dual monitor system with the desktop expanded
across the two monitors without any problems. The main limitation, which was
an application restriction, was that the panels could not be detached and
floated to different locations  on the desktop where they could be docked.
Otherwise, I believe it has always been a hardware and operating system
support issue.   

 

To be clear, I am referring to the expanded desktop across multiple monitor
displays support and not to color management and monitor matching issues
across multiple monitor displays, which also may ultimately be grounded in
the hardware and OS and not an application level problem.



 

From: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rollin
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:47 AM
To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [colorvision_group] Re: Two profiled monitors look different. What
now?

 

--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:colorvision_group%40yahoogroups.com> , "str_online" <str_online@...>

wrote:
> I have two screens because I want to keep editors open in one and
> music player, email etc in the other. I only work with images on one
> screen at a time

Until recently, I ran dual monitors off a dual headed Nvida card under 
WinXP - one was a CRT and one a Dell FP. There was no way that I ever 
got the two to look the same but was able to calibrate them so that the 
FP was at least reasonable and the CRT was calibrated. This worked 
fine as I put the primary Photoshop screen on the CRT and placed all 
the tool pallets, histograms,etc. on the LCD. This worked both under 
Spyder2 and Spyder3. As an aside, the Dell LCD always looked brighter 
and contrastier no matter what I tried to do to it than the CRT BUT the 
CRT matched the prints (using softproof).

The CRT died and I replaced it with an Eizo monitor that I can 
calibrate and the Dell still looks different even when they show as 
very close in Kelvin temperature. The Dell is just too bright and 
there is no contrast control so just cannot fine tune it. Again, it 
works as the second monitor. 

I tried Lightroom but have gone back to just PS for my needs at this 
point. I believe that LR now supports dual monitors so you can do the 
same thing under it - one monitor for the image and one for the editing 
tools.

Rollin