![]() Display profiling is an essential component of that, although the display device itself (specifically, the gamut it can display) plays a large role. I'm just a humble amateur who likes to view and share my images (and other people's) on multiple devices of my own and within my family - numerous laptops, PC monitors, tablets, etc. It's also the first step in an end-to-end colour-managed workflow leading to accurate prints. It's providing an essential baseline for your processing that will - at the very least - limit just how far off things are for your customers and viewers when they look at your photos on their own uncalibrated screens. I am now in the market for a new monitor and I notice the calibration tools like Spyder and Munki are not cheap! I don't need absolute accuracy as many of my images undergo a lot of colour manipulation anyway, but its nice to start off the edit in the general ball park of being fairly accurate.Given your level of photography and the fact that (if I remember correctly) you're taking on professional assignments, personally I think you really ought to work with good colour, luminance and contrast accuracy on screen. I'm still relatively new to all this colour calibration having really just had a friend 'do it for me'. how does he know shifting a certain hue one way is resulting in better accuracy etc? In it it says to bail out of sRGB and do some tinkering (setting Gamma to 2) and changing some colours gives better accuracy, but I'm just unsure of how the fella is able to judge that. I found this article Results: Color Gamut And Performance - AOC G2460PQU - 24-inch 144 Hz Gaming Monitor Review - Tom's Hardware | Tom's Hardware I notice it has sRGB mode, curiously when using that mode you are locked into a brightness and contrast and colours that you cannot get out of. Right now as my main photography monitor is dead I'm having to use my second monitor which is a gaming monitor with 144hz refresh rates. It's important to note that I am not a product photographer, snapping lipsticks and getting the absolute correct shade of red or whatever is not instrumental to me, as I said 'good enough' would be acceptable. Are you saying then, that certain monitors out of the box have the colours bang on and really all it is is a case of toning down brightness of the monitor for the environment working in? I mean if it was the difference to spending $700 for a monitor AND having to pay an additional 200-300 for monitor calibration vs just buying a nicer monitor at $1000 that really needs no additional tinkering then I think I would prefer that. I am now in the market for a new monitor and I notice the calibration tools like Spyder and Munki are not cheap! I don't need absolute accuracy as many of my images undergo a lot of colour manipulation anyway, but its nice to start off the edit in the general ball park of being fairly accurate. Comparing the profiles that creates vs those produced using the Colormunki Display and Displa圜AL, the results are incredibly close (not 100% identical, I'll admit - but 99%).I'm still relatively new to all this colour calibration having really just had a friend 'do it for me'. I own an HP ZBook mobile workstation with 100% AdobeRGB screen and built-in colorimeter plus profiling software. I've had great, consistent results with this setup for several years now under Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18.3, and it's working just as well as the day I bought it. The hardware in all of these is, I believe, much the same. I believe it has been replaced by the Colormuni i1Display Studio and Pro versions, but the original is still available in some markets. I use a Colormunki Display colorimeter as the measurement device, and Displa圜AL software for profiling (which I prefer to Colormunki's bundled software).
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