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  1. questionBuying Guide to Monitor Calibrators
    A monitor calibration device is the single most important part of achieving a colour accurate workflow. It is absolutely an essential part of achieving high quality results with digital imaging - it is in no way optional. If you have a monitor - no matter how modest or fantastic, you need a m ...

  2. questionHow to Calibrate an Eizo Flexscan Monitor (with an Eye One Display 2)
    Eizo screens offer extensive calibration options, and we provide these notes as a guide to achieving a good calibration with an Eizo screen for general photographic editing. The chief difference between an Eizo Flexscan line monitor and an Eizo ColorEdge monitor is in how you calibrate the mon ...

  3. questionCross Rendered Proofing
    Using affordable inkjet printers as accurate proofing devices for CMYK (or any other) print process. Summary: This article discusses the application of modern dye based inkjet printers as accurate proofing devices for other print processes such as CMYK offset printing or laser based Print on ...

  4. questionCalibrating Dual Or Multiple Monitors
    Before reading this article, you might want to refresh your knowledge on How Monitor Profiles Work. Also please note that because this is very hardware specific and differs with each and every set up, we can offer no further support in this area beyond this article - you will need to do your own ...

  5. questionHow to check what monitor profile Photoshop is actually using
    To do this, go to Edit->Colour Settings. Drop down the RGB working space selector and in there (towards the top) will be an entry 'Monitor RGB - profile name' - don't actually select this, but it's the only place Photoshop actually confirms what profile it is using. Note it only confirms ...

  6. questionColour Control on Monitors
    On this page we present the major options for colour managing your monitor, in order of most accurate to least accurate. The first two options, both hardware based, are very accurate. The other methods are all based around judgements made by eye and are thus not capable of really accurate resul ...

  7. questionCalibrating Monitors Using an i1Display Pro
    NOTE - DRAFT: Please note this is very much a draft article - definitely NOT finished yet and will be updated regularly during August 2011. We only received a test device on the 12th of August 2011 so there is still lots of testing to be done before we consider this advice final. But for now i ...

  8. questionUsing ICC Output Profiles
    Please see the PDF file below for instructions on the correct use of ICC Output Profiles Contents include: Installing profiles Renaming profiles Backing up profiles Printing with profiles (in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom etc) Soft proofing - basic and advanced soft proofing, includi ...

  9. questionOverly Bright Monitors
    Unfortunately, not long ago Apple decided to put much brighter tubes in their iMac monitors (for flashier performance with iMovie etc) and now none of them can really be calibrated down to typically recommended luminosities. Worse still the latest machines are going for glossy screens, which ar ...

  10. questionIntroduction to Colour Managment Products
    Colour management products can be divided into two broad groups - colorimeter based products (for measuring colour emmissive devices, i.e. monitors) and full spectrophotometers (which can measure the colour of both backlit and reflective objects, i.e. prints, monitors, fabrics, and pretty much ...

  11. questionCalibration versus Profiling
    Colour management works by two key process - calibration and profiling. Unfortunately the two processes are often confused with each other, and consequently many people have a poor understanding of what they're all about. It's quite simple really, and this page aims to explain the difference a ...

  12. questionPDI Printer Test Image
    This is the classic printer test image from PhotoDisc International (PDI). The Zip archive below has an A4 size copy of this image as well as notes on how to evaluate your print. We also sell prints of this image made here.

  13. questionPost Calibration Colour Cast With An Eye One Display
    From X-Rite: "Color casts on laptop/LCD displays can be the result of the white point selected. Very often the native white point on these displays is lower than the white point selected. When this is the case, the software based calibration uses curves to raise the color temperature. Driving t ...

  14. questionCalibrating Televisions
    Calibrating TelevisionsYou need a monitor calibrator: If you're the current owner of a screen calibration advice, then you may already have most of what you need to calibrate your TV. This is an excellent way of squeezing more value out of something you already own! There are a number of after-m ...

  15. questionPrinting with ICC Profiles using Gimp
    (Richard Jackson kindly provided the information for this article). To print with ICC profiles using the GIMP: Go to Edit | Preferences | color management and set as follows.... Mode of operation : Print Simulation Monitor Profile : Put your monitor profile here Display Rendering Intent : Rela ...

  16. questionWhy won't Eizo ColorNavigator save my target?
    From Eizo Japan: This problem will be solved by CN5.2.2, however you are also able to solve it by changing Privilege. OK, let's start to fix this problem. Pls open system preference and open below 3 folders and change the privilege to "Read&Write" as attached file. Check: -Shared folder -Library ...

  17. questionHow to manually specify a LUT Loader
    (This article is specific to Windows PC users) Summary: This article discusses how to manually specify which calibration tool (software or hardware) will load its calibration table into your video card at start-up. Includes notes on disabling Adobe Gamma. Introduction Regardless of which calib ...

  18. questionHow To Rename an ICC Profile in ColorSync
    Open the Colorsync Utility. Navigate to the profile in question, and click the button labelled 'open' next to it. In the list of fields, find the 'desc' tag. Edit this to whatever suits you and save the profile. This will change the internal name of the profile. You can also change the filen ...

  19. questionHow To Upgrade An Eye One Display LT To An Eye One Display Version 2
    This article is for those of you who took advantage of the recent special offer on Eye One Displays and received an Eye One LT with an upgrade code. Unfortunately, there's no real instructions in the box on how to do the actual upgrade, so here's a quick guide: Use the enclosed CD to install &# ...

  20. questionHelp! I've lost the key to my Spyder product!
    The original key for your Spyder product is usually found on a label stuck to the packet in which the software that came with your device is supplied. It's a very good idea to keep a copy of this key somewhere else as well. If you lose this key, we can't help you I am afraid. You will need to ...

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