Calibrating Your Monitor: What Settings Should I Use When Calibrating my Monitor?
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Notes by the author Jared Platt -
It doesn’t matter how much you spent on your monitor, or how beautiful it looks, if you haven’t calibrated your monitor, you cannot trust the color, contrast or brightness you are seeing. If you are editing your images on a non-calibrated monitor, you are wasting your time. They may look great to you, but there is very little chance that they will look beautiful in print. In fact, every time I talk to someone who doesn’t like their prints when I ask them what tools they use to calibrate their monitor, they look at me with either confusion or shame. Either they didn’t know they needed to calibrate, or they did know, but just skipped this critical step in photography. And make no mistake, the process of calibration is as important as anything else you do in your photo workflow. Your monitor can tell you the truth, or it is telling you a lie and if you are editing your images (adding warmth, contrast, brightness) based on an inaccurate representation of your photo, you are guessing at best! Take all the guesswork out of your photo editing by calibrating your monitor. In this video, I will show you how to use xRite calibration tools to get perfect color out of your monitor, including a detailed description of what each of the settings is doing in the calibration process. This new skill will change the quality of your imagery forever.
If you are already calibrating your monitor but want to understand what you are doing and why--this is a great video to watch. You may learn how to improve your calibrations.
Appreciate this in-depth walk through. Honestly, I've been scared to calibrate because I thought the task would be to daunting. This video dispels that. Thanks!
I realize it's kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to stream new series online ?
one of the best i've found here. Many thanks!
Thanks for this video! It is very helpful. Hopefully there will be a follow-up with advanced settings :) I use i1 Display.
Great video. Looking forward for a follow-up on the advanced settings. :-)
Clear and concise explanation, Jared. Thanks. It raises some follow-up questions for me which I'm wondering if you could address. What happens if I have my monitor calibrated with the white point at 55 and the luminance at 100 and then I calibrate again and change my white point to 65? Will my screen look brighter or less bright? Will it cause me to increase (or decrease) my exposure in Lightroom to see the image with the same brightness? If I print the same image with the white point at 55 and everything else being equal, will that come out lighter or darker than if I printed it at 65? Same questions if I changed my luminance to 80 and kept my white balance the same? And what happens if I change them both on the 2nd calibration? Thanking you in advance for responding.
Thanks you for great video. I just set up my i1Pro and was hoping to find some direction of how to have my i1Pro adjust screen automatically as the light changes around me and my 2019 iMac 27
I only have the Colormunki Display, but I wish its software had the festures of the software you used, like it telling you to adjust the monitor's settings. It seems it would make the hardware give even better results.
Excellent!
I enjoyed and found this quite helpful. Now, what if you have two monitors attached? How do you calibrate the second monitor? I have an iMac as my first and an NEC Monitor MultiSync PA272W as my second monitor. Same process?
Hi, can you please explain how to access the box you use @ time 10.47 to compare the original profile to the calibration profile
What settings do you suggest for white balance, luminance, etc.? If all images I work with will be viewed on screens and not printed?? I am using a 2015 iMac and a dell secondary monitor both of which tend to be quite dim after calibration and the iMac looks magenta while the dell seems more green...
Truthfully I haven't used my Color Monkey for some time but after watching this video I think I'll get back into the habit.
The video is useful, but could you indicate under which lighting conditions one should calibrate a monitor? I recently purchased a Calibrite Display Pro HL monitor calibration device and use an Apple Studio Display. I would appreciate hearing from you
Help :)! I get an achieved luminance of 8cdm. My whitepoint is ok but the luminance is soooo low. I did a reset of my monitor before calibrating. Settings where used as in this video.
My Eizo screen has different modes; "sRGB" and "Adobe RGB" - do I need to calibrate twice?
Should I be using the same profile for Photo, Video editing and General use??
I am using the Colormunki Photo along with the i1Studio software on a 2017 5k iMac Retina monitor and I am very confused regarding ADC settings .. so much confusion out there ... question is this: Do I select ADC as I can not adjust the colour or contrast , only the brightness. Any help would one appreciated. Also if D65 is the "default" colour temperature , why did you select D55?
First, ditch the munki, I spoke with an xrite person a few months back and they alluded to the munki not really being up to the task. the 1i pro is much better....that said!
I have the same monitor and have had repeated issues getting it to work well across other screens which are calibrated using the i1 display pro. Things look fine on it, but as soon as I flip it too my phone or a work computer(all calibrated) things go sideways. Its to the point now where I can no longer do any retouching from home, just culls few crops...rough stuff, and finish it on a studio monitor. Kinda lame with an hour commute to the studio.
Also, just like to reiterate the request for a bit more explanation for using d55. I've only ever used d65 and we do a lot of prints
@@JobeHoy So let me get this right... Someone who works for X rite "alluded to" their product not being "up to the task"? Do you not think that they possibly were trying to get you to buy a new unit?
@@bernardsmith2125 No, I work as a 1st assist/gaf and explained my problem and it felt as if he were being straight with me. It should be mentioned my munki was a few years old but it never really worked well. By that, I mean able to match the screen with the work computers, which use i1 display pro for calibration and make a lot of prints across various mediums(I trust them).. anyway, im sorry to say the 5k imac continues to be a challenge to get just right. The rest of the computers work great with adc checked and just the brightness being user adjusted. D65 and go with the rest defaulted.
Although, I'd love if anyone had any tricks for the 5k imac. The software autodetects it as a green led screen. Always wondered if that meant something.
@@JobeHoy There have been multiple iterations of the Colormunki just as other x-Rite products. The latest ColorMunki are capable devices with less customisable software, yet meet the needs of a large user base. IF your particular needs have you needing i1 Profiler for example then yes, ditch the Colormunki. Yet this is not a technical reason, simply a matching of intent to software capability.
So I finally got my i1 display pro, and I've calibrated, but I'm noticing that everything looks a great deal warmer than before. I imagine I'll need to let my eyes get used to that a bit, but is this normal?
If 6500k looks yellow to you, get used to it. Never go above that. At least for printing even lower is recommended. Your calibrator can also usually quickly check what is the current color temperature in a screen.
This is a quite natural reaction when you're used to looking at a monitor that is "too blue." Your white point target should be D65 for photo editing.
This is very interesting, but I was told to use 120, the default, not 100 and now I am confused. I guess I have to calibrate and take screen shots both ways, and hope I can figure it out. I am a product photographer. ????
He said 100 was better for those that print as well. If you don't, 120 was fine.
thank you johnny sins! your my idol
Is it normal that he doesn’t ask me to calibrate the contrast?
Not ideal. To many things to do by hands. Even dunno what's calibrator doing then...