Monitor question

[Dose206]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for it, but I have a question and I think youse guys and gals can help.

Okay, so when I'm painting digitally I'm working off of my laptop, however I have a flatscreen monitor that is hooked up and my desktop (not PC, the main screen on my laptop.. to clear up any cofusion) is extended onto the flatscreen. However, my laptop has a widescreen monitor and the flatscreen is a standard dimension monitor, and so if i look at a pic on one monitor it will look different than on the other monitor. what i'm trying to do is adjust them so they are both the same, and hopefully the same as what most other people are looking at so that i can give and get helpfuol critiques on my art.

ummm, yeah, i think that's it for now, but if you have any advice or further info is needed, feel free!

thanks for looking

[_Mario]

I think you could need something like this (http://www.colorvision.com/profis/profis_view.jsp?id=101).
That would probably give you the best result (without needing a "pro" to do this).
Sorry can't help you that much.

There are some sites that have "calibration" pictures where it states stuff like this: you have to see the black and white and in the row below you have to see all the greys without banding or you need to see all the ten steps in the grey gradient or something like that. But what if you are colour blind? And all peoples perception varies a little bit (mostly not even niticeable under normal conditions). These sites are probably not a good way for getting good results.

[Dose206]

thanks mario, that looks like a great product.... however burning 200 bones on this problem is kinda a last resort, do you know any of those sites offhand that have the calibration pics? also, i'm not only worried about colors, but the size of the screen, and as far as i can tell, my monitor doesn't have anyway to manually change the heigth of the active screen.i can move the position of it vertically and horizontally, but i can't 'squish' it, which i'm thinking is what i need to do..... but then again, maybe it's just fine and when i put something into my widescreen that's when it changes from what most people are looking at..... i dunno.

any thoughts?