Questions tagged [display-calibration]
The aim of display calibration is to measure and/or adjust the color response of a device (input or output) to a known state. In International Color Consortium (ICC) terms, this is the basis for an additional color characterization of the device and later profiling.
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Should I change ICC Profile when using Wide Gamut Monitor Clamp/Emulation Modes?
Recently got a wide-gamut monitor, an Asus PA 32 DC.
As I understand it, in Standard mode, the panel is running at panel native. With color-managed applications in MacOS, images tagged with a color ...
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How do you decide the screen brightness of your computer when editing a photo?
I have always struggled in understanding how much display brightness is OK for editing a photo on a computer, mainly laptop.
So, I would like to know your valuable suggestions as to how much screen ...
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Can a 65% RGB laptop display 100% RGB on an external monitor?
If a laptop used for photography editing needs color accuracy, but only scores a color gamut of 90% sRGB and 65% Adobe RGB, can it still emit 100% sRGB and 100% Adobe RGB on a stand-alone monitor that ...
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How does "blue light" from computer monitor warp our perception of RGB color gamut when photo editing?
Everyone knows the feeling when you perfect a photo edit on your computer, only to find out the colors are way off when you view the photo on a different device, or someone else's monitor or display.
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Intended brightness setting for sRGB?
This is more of a general question about whether there is an intended brightness setting for viewing the full sRGB gamut on a screen, but my device specifically is a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, and ...
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Is calibration of a low blue light OLED display possible?
Right now I am looking for a new laptop for photo editing, and since I don't want to use a secondary display, I would like to have a laptop with a very good built-in display. I don't want to spend the ...
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What determines the color range (gamut) of a monitor?
Recently upgraded to a newer LCD monitor with dci 92% monitor. I noticed that some games and some photos seem really oversaturated, really shady. After some googling, I found a post suggesting to use ...
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Confused with my monitor Picture Modes
I've recently bought my first "Designer Monitor", Benq PD2500Q (yeah I know it's probably still shit for professionals, but for me it's the first 'better' monitor). I'm very impressed by it ...
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Colors look different after exporting from photoshop even after Calibrating my laptop
I recently calibrated my laptop screen using spyderx pro and created a profile. I am so confused as the colors in photoshop display and of exported image are completely different. The exported image ...
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Hardware calibrated monitor and Linux
I have a BenQ SW271 monitor, which, if I understand correctly, can be hardware calibrated using my i1 DisplayPro connected to the monitor while running BenQ's Palette Master Element Calibration ...
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How to emulate sRGB on wider gamut or buy only sRGB monitor?
My Dell U2520D display shows magenta cast on a standard mode on both windows and mac. I think I am aware now that even if I use RGB ICC profile with this wider gamut display it will still look ...
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How to use my display calibration settings with photoshop
I have a problem if I use my DisplayCal profile with photoshop, and save an image like a png or jpg the image turns out darker when I view it in another program but looks fine in photoshop before I ...
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Color Calibrating - the display? or the output? Key Basic Issues - help!
I have the Xrite i1Profiler and there are several things I need to understand.
1.) Calibration seems to mean running the software and creating a profile. The profile seems to be located on the ...
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sRGB mode a necessary for monitors?
I was wondering. If there's no dedicated sRGB mode on a monitor, can you still calibrate it to an sRGB color gamut for photo and video color grading? I am referring to the Cooler Master GM34CW with 95%...
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ICC Calibration (Profile) for more bright black on LED screen
I have an IPS LED screen and I don't like its black because it is very dark. I know it's a bit strange (is it?) but I want the black to be more bright (that means grey) without white becoming darker. ...
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6500k calibrated monittor - what are the RGB values to represent a given monochromatic radiation of known wavelength?
Say I've calibrated a monitor to the standard 6500k 2.2 gamma, and the color space is sRGB.
On this monitor, I would like to have a reasonably accurate representation of a monochromatic radiation (...
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When and how should I use the "hue" setting in the monitor?
I always try to adjust the monitor native settings before using a colorimeter for proper calibration. This means overall brightness, sometimes contrast, and saturation of each color channel for the ...
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Modifying a film camera to display images
My dad passed recently and I would like a way to memorialise him and his photos.
He was an avid photographer and never left home without his camera. The one I remember from growing up was an Asahi ...
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Should I adjust the settings of a monitor before calibration?
I have previously only used the build-in monitors of my MacBook or iMac, which I have calibrated with a ColorMunki Display. They only had one parameter, brightness, for which the calibration software ...
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How can I get both monitors to look the same?
I have used Acer V247Ybip for about a year and decided to buy Acer V247bi to use for second monitor, which is basically the ...
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Why the photos edited on lightroom desktop looks different in mobile phone?
I am using Adobe Lightroom CC to edit photos on my computer. When I edit them on computer and export them it looks good on my computer.
But, when I copy same images on mobile device then they looks ...
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Can I use “sRGB mode” or a manufacturer's ICC-profile as a poor substitute for hardware calibration?
I have no colourimeter to perform hardware calibration, but while editing some pictures I still would like to be able to get the colours appear at least slightly truthful. I know that every monitor ...
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Do CEIL LAB images look really the same on all monitors?
Monitors can show only RGB models, which has different values on different settings of the monitor. CEIL LAB was designed to be device independent, however I have a confusion that essentially the ...
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When dragging photoshop to another monitor, the colors change a lot
I have my laptop - perfect color, my right monitor - a dell - perfect color and then my left - another dell - colors are way off and dull. If I drag photoshop to the other two, colors are perfect. ...
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How to use a Xrite Colorchecker on a specific image to get the right colors?
I installed a setup, and I shot three photos with the same f/1.7 1/100s ISO100 condition:
A.jpg (download link): Colorchecker alone
B.jpg: Colorchecker + object
C.jpg: the final object I'm ...
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Xrite Colorchecker color specifications and 18% reflectance gray card
I have a Xrite Colorchecker Classic:
Where to find the color specifications for each square (either in CMJN or any other format)?
Let's say I want to develop my own open-source color correction ...
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How to choose a color calibration device?
I'm tired of my monitors and phones all looking different. I tried following instructions at Lagom LCD monitor test pages, but they still look different. So, I think I need to buy something to help ...
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Is it possible to make an monitor that can output colors perfectly? [closed]
We have come from long way from my rather bad IBM E74 monitor with terrible color reproduction to the brand new monitors with 14 Bit HDR.
But will we ever see an monitor that can output colors that ...
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How to properly calibrate a monitor
The following are the ones I've seen so far that could affect color display:
GPU and Windows settings - I'm using a Nvidia GTX 1060
Monitor calibrators - I have a Spyder5Elite
The monitor settings - ...
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Calibrated color gamut of display
I have a NEC PA241W monitor with stock x-rite calibrator. Recently I've re-calibrated it after several years of working with the following target values as recommended in one of online courses:
White ...
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Why does using "sRGB" as my monitor display profile look better than the built-in profile?
I've got a (2013) MacBook Pro. I also have an ASUS VS248 secondary monitor.
When I first plugged it in, I found that the greens were washed out and the browns had a red tint. I switched it from the "...
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How to edit photos to correct for monitor calibration?
Is there a way to shift all the adjustments made (color, tint, contrast...) during post-processing of photos in Lightroom with an uncalibrated monitor by some offset value after calibrating the ...
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Changing the brightness of a calibrated monitor for other uses?
So, in my ongoing goal to start post-processing photos in a color-managed fashion, I've calibrated my monitor using a ColorMunki Display.
However, I have only one monitor that needs to be usable in ...
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How do monitor and image editing software color profiles interact?
I've Googled, I've Bing-ed, I've even DuckDuckGo-ed, but I can't figure this out.
Here it is:
My monitor has its own color profile, currently "eyeball" calibrated but soon to be really calibrated.
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When calibrating a monitor, should I create different profiles with different light situations?
When calibrating my monitor (Eizo Flexscan EV2736), should I create different profiles for different light situations? For example a profile when the rooms light is switched on and a profile when the ...
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How to optimally set up a monitor to be as well calibrated as possible when used as a liveview finder?
If you want the most precise color reproduction from a computer monitor, you calibrate it. But calibration mostly changes the PC, not the monitor, apart from the selection of basic color profile and ...
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Monitor control to set up screen brightness using Windows Color Calibration
This sounds to be a simple question but I've been strugling around for the last 2 hours and nothing yet...
I need urgently to calibrate the color of my notebook (Samsung Odyssey). The procedure I'm ...
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How can I best calibrate my MacBook Pro display using built-in, free or inexpensive software?
macOS includes a "Display Calibrator Assistant" to perform some basic calibration of the built-in display.
I'm sure it's better than nothing, but how much better, I don't know.
All it immediately ...
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Display calibration seems oddly off for Spyder5 + BenQ + Macbook Pro
I've got a Macbook Pro 15" (2017) with a BenQ SW271 connected via USB-C. I've calibrated both using a Spyder 5 Pro, and straight off the bat after calibrating the BenQ felt that it was leaning towards ...
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How can I correct oversaturated colors after sRGB calibration of AdobeRGB monitor?
I have a wide gamut monitor but I want to use it in sRGB color space only.
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I calibrated it with DisplayCAL and I got 99,1% sRGB coverage.
After that I experienced some issues viewing photos ...
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Photo editing - brightness for web vs print - two files needed?
Re editing photos for both printing AND online viewing - I have calibrated my monitor with a Spyder Pro, so the printing should go fine, but the files are too bright/light when viewed online on other ...
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Color Calibration on Sharp LC-32LB370U monitor
I'm having trouble trying to fix the color for my Sharp LED monitor. This has been an issue for about a year or so, and I'd still like to use it, but the wrong colors are too distracting.
I've gone ...
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Calibrating monitor with lab spectrometer
I'm trying to calibrate my monitors. But I'm wondering if I can avoid buying another piece of equipment by using a lab spectrometer (in the past I've always just calibrated by eye). I'm a PhD student ...
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If I have two calibrated monitors, will Photoshop pick the right monitor profile?
I have calibrated several different monitors. Will Photoshop be able to pull up the correct color profile depending on which monitor I am showing Photoshop on?
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Should I create a monitor profile for each paper?
In my quest to better understand monitor profiling as it relates to printing, I came across a blog where the recommendation was to create a monitor profile for each paper in use - since each paper ...
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Is a monitor ICC profile necessary for accurate color rendering by Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.?
I purchased an ASUS PA329Q monitor to replace an NEC LCD2490WUXi2. I set up both monitors side-by-side and calibrated them to the same parameters (sRGB, D65, 150nit, gamma 2.2) using an X-Rite ...
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Lightroom displays jpg with purple cast
Lightroom shows jpeg files with a purple cast, but the photos appear normal outside of lightroom. I have included a screenshot which includes the same photo in both Windows Photo Viewer and Lightroom.
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What are the benefits of profiling a factory-calibrated AdobeRGB monitor?
Suppose I have a high-end monitor that supports AdobeRGB natively and is calibrated at the factory. Assume that I just got the monitor and that factory calibration is spot on.
Do I still need ...
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When to choose D65 and when to choose ambient light temperature for white point for display calibration?
In my case I am a programmer working with two monitor set up, mostly doing coding and occasionally viewing images. I do not print images, and I just want to pick a good white point for viewing code/...
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Hardware options for canvas printer calibration
I am looking for hardware for calibration of canvas prints.
There are many solutions for monitors (as Datacolor Spyder, X-Rite i1 Display Pro, X-Rite ColorMunki) and paper printers (as Datacolor ...
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