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Why not use a camera as a colorimeter?
Camera Colorimeter is an app on Google Play which uses the camera on your phone as a colorimeter for calibrating other devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.auralisoft....
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Xrite Colorchecker color specifications and 18% reflectance gray card
After further research, here is a partial answer taking as source Blog-Couleur: Quelles sont les valeurs RVB de la colorchecker ? and BabelColor PDF and the Xrite website.
The last row seems to be ...
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Is calibrating a monitor for sRGB and CMYK different?
This is a very incomplete answer, but important in regards to terminology and understanding everything: RGB and CMYK are color models. They don't define what your monitor or printer can do, only how ...
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Can a 65% RGB laptop display 100% RGB on an external monitor?
If you ask this because you want to do photo retouching work on the gaming laptop, the answer is yes.
The color space of sRGB or Adobe RGB is coded into the file. The rendering device (display, ...
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Is calibrating a monitor for sRGB and CMYK different?
In my opinion the designer is wrong.
CMYK is NOT a subset of sRGB. It is a diferent color model.
Let me explain.
sRGB is a color profile for rgb colors. But actually it is close to a "color space" (...
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6500k calibrated monittor - what are the RGB values to represent a given monochromatic radiation of known wavelength?
You're not really trying to produce a reasonable representation of a single wavelength because, as you have noted, an RGB color reproduction system is not capable of doing that. (Unless that ...
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Display Calibration For Viewing On Displays / Devices
Hum You are mixing diferent things here.
Determine your white point. This is not the same as intensity.
Ambient Light and ambient background
Ambient light behind your monitor is a relative thing. ...
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Display Calibration For Viewing On Displays / Devices
I know that I cannot control other people's screens, but that is part of the question - if I cannot know the final circumstances of viewing, then what should guide my choice?
The ISO standard for ...
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When to choose D65 and when to choose ambient light temperature for white point for display calibration?
The majority of the monitors released in at least the last 5-7 years should have the native white point at 6500K, unless it's some specialized display, which usually cost much more. If the native ...
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How can I best calibrate my MacBook Pro display using built-in, free or inexpensive software?
If you opt-click the Calibrate... button, you get the old 'mess of steps', once you check the Expert Mode box
Without Opt...
With Opt...
It's still nowhere near as good as using a hardware ...
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Why does using "sRGB" as my monitor display profile look better than the built-in profile?
Let's step backwards a bit and answer some "unasked" questions first:
What is a color profile.
What is a "monitor" profile and hardware calibration vs a "Factory Profile."
What is color constancy.
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Xrite Colorchecker color specifications and 18% reflectance gray card
The official specifications are available on X-Rite website at this URL: https://xritephoto.com/ph_product_overview.aspx?ID=938&Action=Support&SupportID=5884. The specifications have changed ...
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Color Calibrating - the display? or the output? Key Basic Issues - help!
It is possible to calibrate both but calibrating the display is much better. Unfortunately, not all displays can be calibrated and so many people resort to calibrating the graphics card. The problem ...
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Color Calibrating - the display? or the output? Key Basic Issues - help!
You are asking very valid questions, and the very fact of it means that you do understand the essence of the problem. You only need to know the technology to deal with it. There are good answers ...
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Hardware calibration for Eizo Monitor on Linux / Ubuntu without ColorNavigator?
According to Eizo, this is not possible.
I've had a lengthy conversation with a very friendly Eizo technican in
October 2016, concerning the monitor CS2420. I would expect this to
hold true for all ...
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What is the "right" displayed color?
in ideal room lighting conditions?
"Ideal" is probaby all the lights turned off. So the white then becomes the pure white of your white screen. Another ideal is probably a light and gray walls that ...
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What is the "right" displayed color?
If the display is calibrated correctly and you are using a profile correctly you can assume the colour is correctly displayed, or more precisely, that it is displayed as accurately as the system can ...
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Can an amateur significantly improve colour on a factory-calibrated monitor (like the Dell U2414H)?
Calibration with a hardware calibration tool (I use an X-Rite Colormunki) will improve display accuracy. Factory calibration may get the best out of the display using its internal controls, e.g. ...
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What is the gamut and backlight for a MacBook pro retina display?
Spyder's software is probably going to suck horribly, you should be using Dispcal GUI.
It's going to be sRGB (normal gamut) -- see post 5, here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Apple-MacBook-Pro-...
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Should I return my new wide-gamut monitor or buy an expensive calibrator?
1) Is it worth sucking it up and shelling out the dough for a calibrator, especially if don't print? Do these calibrators usually fix all issues like colors running hot and will my monitor be perfect ...
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Why not use a camera as a colorimeter?
The basic reason is that the spectral characteristics of a camera are typically not the same as a human observer (A camera with such a characteristic is unusual, and is typically quite expensive and ...
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Best color profile with new macbook?
There are display profiles and editing profiles.
For display profile that you set in System Preferences, either use profile that is a result of actual calibration or display profile from the ...
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If I have two calibrated monitors, will Photoshop pick the right monitor profile?
I don't really want to provide 'half an answer' but I don't want to leave it as a comment either - so this is ½ an answer...
First of all, I agree with Rafael - the OS handles the profiling. So long ...
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How can I correct oversaturated colors after sRGB calibration of AdobeRGB monitor?
If I stick to Case A: Could I be sure that everyone (with calibrated monitor) will see my photos as me in smart "viewers": ACDSee Pro, LightRoom?
Not if the other calibrated monitors are only 96%, or ...
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When calibrating a monitor, should I create different profiles with different light situations?
Do you mean that the calibrated result is different depending on whether you calibrate with the ambient light on and off? That is, if you create two profiles in these two conditions and then compare ...
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Why does using "sRGB" as my monitor display profile look better than the built-in profile?
The general advice not to use sRGB as a device profile stems from the fact that it is not meant to be a device profile. When people start doing colour management, they often get confused about all ...
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Do CEIL LAB images look really the same on all monitors?
No. CIELAB images are just as subject to different displays as RGB images. As you note CIELAB is converted to RGB in order to be displayed since displays do not use CIELAB. However, if displays are ...
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Why the photos edited on lightroom desktop looks different in mobile phone?
It is generally recommended to publish photos on the web in sRGB colour space. You have used the correct export setting.
Ideally you calibrate and profile your computer monitor. But this is a huge ...
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How can I get both monitors to look the same?
It is not surprising at all that your two monitors display differently. At work, I have two monitors from the same batch (!) and they are almost as different as yours. (Incidentally, also Acer, but ...
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6500k calibrated monittor - what are the RGB values to represent a given monochromatic radiation of known wavelength?
Maximally saturated monochromatic colors in sRGB
This is a list of sRGB values that preserve hue but are at the maximum color saturation achievable with sRGB in wavelength steps of 1nm from 390nm to ...
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