 Hey, how you doing? Let's go back to here. And in this video I'm going to show you how to calibrate your monitor using the X-Rite i1 Profiler software. All right, so here we are looking at the software and I'm going to walk you through step by step how to calibrate your monitor using the X-Rite i1 Profiler and the i1 Display Pro. So the first thing we're going to do here is come down here where it says Advanced. Make sure you're on the Advanced option right there and then you see your default display device. It's the i1 Display is chosen. Now we're going to go over to the upper left and click on Profiling. Now you can see here by default it knows that this is a GBLED. So I'm doing this on a 5K iMac. I just want to show you their site. There's some documentation here, technology type for Apple displays. That's on the X-Rite website. If you're not sure what type of display you have I would contact X-Rite. Although by default it did detect the right display right here. iMac, GBLED. That's for 2015 5K iMacs and beyond. Now the white point that should be set at D65. You see have some different options here. So D50, D55 that's more for printing but for photography and online video. D65 is the proper white point setting. So you see we have our luminance setting. 120 is the proper setting for desktop or the iMac. If you're using a MacBook Pro 100 try that setting there. I'm going to choose 120. Now for my Gamma I'm just going to leave that standard default at 2.20. In my contrast ratio I'm going to use native. Now if you are in a room with light glare on your computer you could measure and adjust for that flare as well as you could measure for your ambient light, smart control. I have those unchecked. If you want to check those you can and it'll walk you through that. So I'm going to go to next and then we have use defaults. I'm just going to go with the default settings right here and then I'm going to click next again and then you see we have some different choices for patches. I'm going to go with the large. Now I've read some things on the web that said people didn't notice a difference between small, medium, and large. I don't know if that's totally accurate. I would think they wouldn't include a small, medium, and large patch setting if there wasn't a difference. So if you want the best color reproduction choose large. It'll take a little bit longer but still not that long. So I'm choosing the large patch setting. Now I'm going to click next and then there's one more checkbox here. We're going to click automatic display control instead of adjusting this manually. We're going to let it happen automatically and then the next step is to click on start measurement and then you want to make sure that you have your i1 display pro centered on your monitor and that'll just suggest that. I'm just going to make an adjustment to mine here and I have it centered and it's fitting flush and I'm going to say okay with the software. I'm going to click on next and start the profile. Now this will take probably about anywhere from five to eight minutes so what I'll do is I'll speed this up till we get to the end of the calibration sequence. All right so the patches are done. I'm going to click on next right here and you see we get to this screen right here. Now what I'll do here we've already done our measurement so I'm going to click next. Now we have a file name right here. I'm just going to click on iMac. I usually put the date and then what I do is I choose three weeks so you can set a reminder. I'll show you that in a second. One thing I forgot to mention is you should warm up your monitor for at least 30 minutes as well as have your i1 display pro plugged into your computer for 30 minutes as well. I'm just going to put today's date I think it's May 11th so I'm just going to say May 11 and I'll put the year 2018. You can call that whatever you want. I think I hit 19. I'm in the future and click here user level and then profile reminder. So they say about four weeks. I'm going to set mine to three weeks so in about three weeks I'll get a reminder to do this calibration again. Now one other thing too I want to mention is you can use the i1 pro to also calibrate your HDTV or your 4K TV. I have a video about that. I'll have a link pop up. I'll also put a link below in the description if you want to learn how to calibrate your HDTV or your 4K TV using the i1 display pro. All right so that's that there. I'm just going to click on create and save profile. So I've named it and I'm saving it and then I'm just going to say okay here. So if you want it to you could have your ambient light and all that monitoring going on. I'm not going to monitor that and then it just shows you a little graph right here. Now we can click on compare profile right here and then you could compare your profile if you want it to something before. Now you'll probably notice a bigger difference if you've never calibrated your monitor before. If you've calibrated before it you probably won't see a big difference with this comparison right here. Thanks for watching this video. If you have any questions about this process just leave them in the comment section below. Hey how you doing? Subscribe back to here and I put together some free Photoshop retouching actions and you can access them in the description box just below this video.