Can't wait for the new travel vlogs from you guys. I also hope you guys are getting a lot of snapper on your travels.

Ah man Patrick that’s very helpful! I’ve been looking into calibrating my monitor recently. You certainly posted this at the right time. Cheers for the advice.

This was the BEST video on monitor color calibration I've seen.

@drthompson65

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

Hi Patrick, this is one of the most concise and accurate explanations of color calibration using X-Rite products. Well done!

Excellent explanation, in a concise and practical manner. Great job Patrick!

Thank you so much for making this tutorial. This answered a lot of questions for me.

Great concise overview demonstration and discussion of benefits using a colour managed workflow. Nice!

Excellent video. Thank you for your hard work!

Well done great tutorial. Not long at all. Very informative

Great video Patrick! Since I have NEC Monitors, I personally use their integrated Spectraview II calibrator and software to do my monitor calibration as it is pretty much automated. One thing you "might" be overlooking is the color temperature and brightness of the room lighting used to evaluate your final prints? It could be just the video, but it looks to me like in the background you may have off color walls and/or low color temperature lighting turned on which can drastically affect how the prints actually relate to the monitor rendition? In my case I use a D65 light viewing booth next to my monitors to make sure I am evaluating at the same color temperature and brightness. Just a thought to consider.

Really clear and concise, thank you!

Thanks Pat for the tutorial. Excellent explanation on everything.

It's so awesome what you show in this video and I love it. I'm a IT Guy in nature but I really amaze what I have learn from your this video. Please continue what you're doing.

Excellent walk through thank you. I used it to help me set up my entire work flow.

This was an AWESOME video! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! Great tutorial! Now I got the workflow. I'm going to buy a pro 100s and therefore I am very happy about the specific hints. Thx a lot! Greetings from Germany.

fstoppers. Thanks for creating this video - it's perfect for photographers who print at home. I use almost this exact workflow with my Canon imagePROGRAF Pro-4000; however I go one stage further and purchase custom printer/paper profiles from Freestyle Photo in Los Angeles. On the face of it the profiles are expensive at $100 each; however the results are truly amazing! I think you would do the industry an enormous favor if you create a similar workflow for photographers who print through a lab rather than printing at home. That last step of sending images to a lab can be incredibly frustrating since you don't have the same level of control. This is particularly true for photographers who create albums since the reprint cost (and time) is so high!

This video! REALLY HELPFULL! Thanks FStoppers!

Thanks Patrick. I have the Spyder unit which does not have printer calibration, but I have the same printer you worked with, the Canon PRO-100. I found your explanation of the printer settings with the Canon and Photoshop software very helpful.

You guys are so awesome. I always learn something from all your videos. Keep up the great work!

In was asked by a friend who wanted to do a first calibration of monitor and printer how to do it. Instead of trying to explain through messages I sent them here. Easily THE best video on the topic on KZread!

Awesome Video!!!! Thank you for taking the time!!!

Entirely vital and essential, thank you

Very nice video Patrick i can say it is useful I always struggle to match the colors of what I see on my monitor and what comes out from my printer but not anymore thanks to you 😉. Keep doing great videos guys you are amazing 👍

Thanks for that. Very helpful walkthrough!

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. No waffle... just the information needed.

This is one of the most helpful videos I've seen. Thank you so much for making this!

This tutorial has the most accurate informationsi can find . And very easy to apply . I only need that device . Thank you .

Thanks for the info. Very educational and easy to understand.

Really good tutorial, cheers

it's just great thank you again now I know how to do it !!

Angel's Landing! What a great hike.

thanks for taking the time to make the video, really appreciated it.

Fantastic! Many, many thanks! 🙂

Easy to understand, thanks.

Thanks for taking the mystery out of this.

Thanks for posting

That was very helpful. Good work :)

Very much appreciated.

Very good. Thank you,

Perfect tutorial video! to the point, quick, in detail, comprehensive, practical; although made it 4 years ago still I believe is the best on youtube for this topic. Bravo and appreciated. (PS: you didn't mention what is your recommended monitor for photo editing in 2022 of course?)

It's so useful, thx!

I just had a lab print almost 600 4x6 family photos and they are all way darker than what my Dell monitor was showing. Christmas special so I'm only out $56 . Now a calibration tool is a must!. I will use this video as a teaching reference. Thank you.

I believe this is definitely worth it

Also, light and pigment produce different colors, so what you see in a monitor is light color (additive, rgb) and what a printer produces is pigment color (subtractive, cmyk or even 10 inks), so there will always be a slight difference between what we see in a screen and what is printed.

this is... thank you!!

Great video I calibrate my screen but since I normally outsource my prints it had never dawned on me to calibrate the printer see you next time guys!

Really good video. Two little points. For the Color Checker Passport, you are not obliged to download the Lightroom export preset unless you want to do this in LR with automation ( and you should if you use LR). The application itself can create the DNG camera profile which will be loaded into LR. There is only one advantage to loading the raw chart in the application: Dual Illuminant profiles for use in LR / ACR. Second point; as long as the chart is shot in reasonable light the white point is ignored so performing a WB in LR then exporting with the export X-Rite preset will not have any influence on the profile build. Yes you will have to WB after the profile is built and applied, but is not encoded into the DNG profile.

If there's one video to watch about calibration, it has to be this one ! Thanks.

This is very helpful, particularly the print calibration section.Would it be easier to shoot the color checker on the first shot in order to get the correct white balance Prior to starting the session?

Thanks!

11:30 probably best to avoid reflective surface behind the paper for the scan. My preference would be a neutral matte surface.

Thank you Patrick for the great tutorial. Question: since calibration of the monitor is a must and the end result would be accurate colors seen on the monitor in relation to the photo taken, what in your opinion is the bare bone minimum monitor specs I should consider for photo editing. I've looked at BenQ, LG, Samsung, Dell..all in the $1000+ range but the specs vary making a few hundred here and there seem frivolous for the difference gained. Quite confusing. I'm in search of both a monitor and calibration tool. I thank you in advance for your input.

Thanks

I want to start printing some of my work and sharing it through social media, however, a photo that is edited on a calibrated monitor Will look different when shared digitally.. I was wondering if you've run into this issue and if you have, do you have any tips

By also calibrating the printer, does it eliminate the need to edit a soft proof version of the image to match the paper/printer color profile? Thanks for one of the most straight forward tutorials on this subject.

spot on

Good job

Thks

I had a kit years ago that after profiling the monitor you would print out page and then take that and scan it in and it would set a profile for both the printer and scanner

Thanks, really the best tutorial! I've just a problem, maybe you could help me. I use a Canon imageprograf pro 2000, the print layout is different and I don't understand how to turn off color correction from the printer. Thanks a lot! Greetings from Italy.

Great video! I've been dreading monitor calibration for 3 years until I saw your video. I design in my home in Illustrator and Photoshop on an iMac for my sign biz. Then, I put the file on a flash drive, walk to my shop, stuff the flash drive into a windoz puter with the sloppiest, nastiest monitor I've ever seen. The file is ripped on Versaworks. Versaworks then sends the ripped file to my 54" Roland printer. I get great prints but I don't know how or why. Dumb Luck? I do 52" x 96" almost every day. The Windoz is old...something 7. The Monitor is old too but it all works. I thought another new iMac for $3500 was the answer but spending $500 for an i1 Studio is something I shoulda done when I didn't have the dough. Thanks for making it an easy choice! Because of my success, the data must travel successfully in the flash drive?

Hello Patrick, this is one of the most concise and accurate explanations of color calibration I have ever watched. I am new to this and there is still something I do not fully understand. I understand the point of calibrating the monitor, but the printer+paper? I mean, I use a particular paper (e.g, matte, glossy, metallic, etc.) because it gives me that particular look to the photo I want. If a photo looks the same regardless the printer/paper combination, what is the point of using different papers?

Great video Patrick. I use a printer company in London for prints but my first batch was too dark as my monitor was so bright also. Ps. Laughing at Lee teaching you how to bounce a flash. Haha.

@kizzyjem

5 жыл бұрын

seenituk who did you use? Did you manage to correct the prints?

thanks for video

@derpinator8789

5 жыл бұрын

np

Great information - thanks!

Great!

When you take the first picture in the studio of Erica holding the color checker, which WB, Style and exposure do you use? Will it work with any WB? Any setting in the camera?

Very nice video.can we use this in photo lab on qss 3201 sd noritsu for silver halide prints ? Thanks.

Its pretty much the same price of my DSLR. Perfect.

I was curious, Does the Canon Pro 10 still use the Chroma Optimizer ink still if you use custom printer icc's?

Can this also work with video in Premiere?

ohh i want the i1Studio, sadly it isn't compatible with Palette Master element, the software that BenQ uses for the hardware calibrated monitors.. All the other i1 calibrators as well as the spyder 4&5 are compatible.. But the i1 studio is the one to get if you want to calibrate screen and printers and don't want to get the i1pro 2, about 1k usd for the base model, 1600usd for the kit for photographers..

Question: Does it matter if you assign a colour profile (ie: ProPhoto, Adobe 1998) to your photo file, or should you assign no profile since you're dealing with profiles for the printer and paper already? Thanks!

This video is good for private user to understand how calibration work. Well done. But not for a pro's. P.S. Between colorimeter (i1DisplayPro, Spyder5Pro...) and spectrophotometer (i1Pro, ColormunkiPhoto, i1Studio...) is huge difference. Everyone must know that.

1:08 in when the color checker is shown next to Erica's face did you correct the color? If so, then why not the luminosity?

Watching the video you image looked dark. but when you downloaded the plugin I noticed your Exposure was increased +45 and your shadow was increased +36? Why not zeroing all setting adjustments? and having a darker exposure give you a bad calibration? What Brightness numbers are you looking for in the grey patch you clicked on for your calibration? How long should your computer be on before calibrating you display?

Can I use this for silver halide prints

what is that leather wrist fashion bracelet? does it help with calibration?

I use to edit alll of my pics on my MacBook Pro and view them on my iPhone or iPad. Since they are all from same family, Color was all very close. Right now I’m using a Mac mini with a dell ultra wide and a LG 5K ultra fine. I’m in a color nightmare. Maybe I have my brightness set too high but I have 3 screeens and they don’t even come close to matching!

Great lesson. I finally understood the whole process of calibrating the monitor and printer. I use a variety of photo papers and this is an amazing tutorial. Thank you very much.

Seeing this was a Canon printer and Canon paper it would of been interesting to see a print with the Canon ICC profile specific to that paper applied next to the ICC profile you created, I have found the ICC profiles that come with my Epson printer for their paper to be very accurate, so I'm quite happy with that and the Eizo monitor I have is self calibrating, although of course you do have the option to also use a third party calibration device if you wish, but again I'm happy with what I have. Interesting tutorial and like you said its essential to at least calibrate your monitor, and if you are going to use third party papers then of course to need create an ICC profile for that specific paper, and I know a lot of these third party papers you can download the ICC profile for that specific paper/printer combination.

@Brittow

5 жыл бұрын

Would HAVE* been interesting. There is no such thing as "would OF".. PLEASE

Great video, Patrick. I've struggled with my prints not matching my monitor for years; i've used the i1 Display monitor calibration device for years but always used the paper manufacturer profiles for my printer. And on almost every print I make, I have to do significant editing (removing a subtle green cast) to every image. Very tedious and expensive, and has made me hate printing. With your tutorial, I'm ready to go out and buy this device so I can accurately calibrate my monitor and create accurate color profiles for my printer. I use an Epson P800 printer and I use an iMac with extra iMac monitor. As you may or may not know, the iMacs do not have the same flexibility in color / contrast / color adjustments as other generic monitors. I'm hoping that this calibration device will get me "close enough" with my iMac displays. Do you have any experience with this calibration hardware / software with Macs? Thanks again. I'm really pumped to purchase one of these devices and see if I can improve my images (and attitude).

hi, may i ask if i am able to use this to calibrate my screen which has blue tint over it? it has a 94%NTSC color range

Unfortunately, they dont have an update for the color checker camera calibration plugin for LR Classic. I just tried it and it doesn't show up. Any work around you know of or anyone out there does?

I know I am being redundant but this is the best video on calibration I have seen. Might suggest to speak slowerparticularly when reviewing the settings. Some of us are old and can’t keep up😬

Anyone know how to turn off the profile for a Canon ip8750 on a imac so that I can send the chart test print to the printer with no profile from the printer, before I then profile.

Does any one know if there's a monitor calibration cheat sheet some where on the web?

scan it on calibrated scanner and you can compare directly with original image.

Great but just one thing. With RAW files you don´t need to WB the image before proceeding to creat of the Profile

How can i calibrate the display on a notebook? there are no manual controls, and from windows only the gamma and brightness can be changed.

Cool

Where would i get a nice desk like that? What is it called?

Have you ever noticed how the blues are way over saturated on the x rite icc profile you create from the camera? I have everything exactly right but if you make a print of the x rite chart itself and compare the colors to the actual chart the color checker software really messes up the blues. If you don’t see this issue please let me know

I am trying to decide between an I1Display pro ( for only screencallibration ) and a colormunki photo or I1 studio ( for screen callibration and printerprofiling )but have some questions about this I1 studio device.. I know the devices serve different needs, but im trying to decide wheter or not to print my photo's at home on my Pixma 925 printer or sent the photos to a photolab If you have a colormunki photo , the I1 software will work with it too. I even understand it's the same hardware. What is the difference ( if any )between the devices? In this video (kzread.info/dash/bejne/o21hqtSzaJy2e7Q.html) from xrite i understand the 'munki photo'is retired..Does this mean there wont be updates in the future for this device? Thanks in advance for your answers

Question, it is more accurate than spyder? is the brand really an issue on calibrator tool? thanks

I own a scanner and I'm curious about the scanner calibration. Do you know if the passport checkers can be used to calibrate the scanner images? I did notice they have a separate scanner checker product

I have BenQ sw2700pt and it uses inbuilt BenQ palette master software to calibrate. What is the difference between palette master and X-rite i1 Studio software ?

What is the difference between the i1studio, vs the colormunki? Also do you "soft proof" before you go to print? If not, why?

@RonRosenzweig

6 жыл бұрын

The i1Studio software will work with the ColorMunki device. It is like a software upgrade for the ColorMunki. I have just downloaded the i1 software.

I wish you would have shown how to "calibrate" an external photo scanner. I can't find a video on that!