Monitor Calibration, Part 3, The Process

Part 3 of an introduction to a basic demonstration of calibrating a computor monitor using GretagMacbeth / X-Rite i1 profiling software and hardware.

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• printing
• labels
• converting

[uglyflexo]

Hi,

I'm very glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

The purpose of the calibration is to tune the monitor so that it produces the color as closely as intended by the application, be that PhotoShop, a picture sent to you, or video. I must answer "yes"; this is good for video editing.

[raindog916]

great job! thanks for the very useful lesson!

peace from Greece! :)

[uglyflexo]

@raindog916

Thanks Raindog.  Peace!

[dandy491]

I got the eye 1 and what a difference it made. However, the color profile saved as sRGB. My camera is set up for Adobe RGB. Can I do a monitor calibration and save it for Adobe RGB? Thanks again.

[uglyflexo]

Hi Daniel,

I'll asnwer in multiple parts, due to character limits:

If you were unable to find the monitor profile you created, where are you trying to find it? My guess would be that youre trying to select your profile (e.g. in Photoshops Color Settings or your Display Properties) but the only one thats showing up in the list is sRGB. If thats the case, the profile probably isnt in the right folder on your system.

[uglyflexo]

Your monitor profile is probably capable of more colors (a bigger color gamut) than sRGB. However, there are only a couple of very high-end monitors out that are actually capable of displaying all of the colors in the Adobe RGB color space.

[Malcolmxx5]

Hi

Thank you for the great tutorial.

Quick question. Is this process of calibration good for video editing.

[HK379]

here is something I`m never going to do ....

what a waste of time ...

[uglyflexo]

Hi Dandy,

Thanks for the kind and encouraging words. I appreciate them and I appreciate you taking the time.

Best Regards,

Frank

[dandy491]

Thanks for this video. If you are not a teacher, you should be. You were very concise and made the fear of the dreaded color calibration disappear. Thanks again. Daniel