Noob Dual LCD Setup Question!

[lifanus]

Hello folks,

I'm quite new here and I have a questions that needs to be answered ASAP before I make futher purchase decision.

I am a photographer, for years I've been settling on a crappy cheap Samsung TN panel LCD for all my graphic editing works, I can use color calibration software to calibrate this piece of crap, to maintain certain accuracy, but it's color gamut is just so narrow that it's hard for me to take control over the color.

So today I just ordered a NEC LCD2690WUXi 26" monitor, solely for my photographic editing purposes, using Photoshop CS3 and a adobe RGB color profile. However I heard that this monitor will over saturate sRGB images and general internet images that's untaged with a color profile.

I do a lot of web design/editing for my personal website in Dreamweaver as well, so the idea of not able to control sRGB profiled images just does not sound good to me either. That's why I"m also thinking of getting a cheaper sub $250 22" LCD monitor for general web editing and occasional gaming purpose.

Now I'm wondering if I do get a second LCD, will I be able to calibrate the second monitor individually even though two monitors were different?

I also ordered some upgrade parts for my PC as well, the two LCDs will be connected to a new GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphic card with 2 DVI port.

Thank you for your help, I greatly appreciate it.
Li

 

[RaynQuist]

I remember having different color profiles for different monitors was introduced in Vista and they also made an add-on for XP. I've never done it or looked into doing it myself; just something I remember reading on this forum. You can dual monitor with your old Samsung and see if you can get it to work before buying a new one.