Advice On Color Correction

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Advice On Color Correction

Postby LVA157 » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:03 pm

hi, ive been wondering how i can take screenies with different color correction on my GPU. i can change the correction to what i want but it just dosent show in my shots. Heres what i mean and as you can see its not showing any difference in color in my shot even though it looks alot brighter on my screen ???

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Re: Advice On Color Correction

Postby MOUSY » Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:24 pm

I think the problem is you have applied changes to just your desktop. If you change the "Apply chages to:" option to All insted of Desktop that might help. Not entirely sure though.
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Re: Advice On Color Correction

Postby congo » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:59 pm

The changes you are making affect your display only, not the screenshots you are taking.

You can load the shots into a paint program for editing and colour adjustment but they would be illegal in the freeware UNEDITED screenshots forum, otherwise everyone would be tarting up their shots.
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Re: Advice On Color Correction

Postby MOUSY » Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:32 am

I myself have tried the changes recently to no avail. I guess these settings only affect the display as Congo described. I guess the rich, real-looking, colours that others get in there shots are entirely due to there cards.
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Re: Advice On Color Correction

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:02 am

Surely a screenshot is taking a picture of the display. So any colour correction made on the graphics card will change what is sent to the display and therefore will be captured by a screenshot. The only way it wouldn't be is if you changed the RGB, brightness or contrast on the monitor. :P
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Re: Advice On Color Correction

Postby LVA157 » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:05 pm

Well it should take the screenshot WITH the color correction showing, but all it does is switch back to a normal shot when i change to my normal colors. Don't worry now any-way, i can produce some very decent shots with my new system, even if i'm using the 6600 :P
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