Comments on: Go AWAY (Or, Today is Calibrate and Backup Day) http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/03/go-away-or-today-is-calibrate-and-backup-day/ The Blog of Photographer David duChemin // Gear is Good. Vision is Better. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:49:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: davidhttp://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/03/go-away-or-today-is-calibrate-and-backup-day/comment-page-1/#comment-913 david Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:09:23 +0000 http://pixelatedimage.com/blog/?p=361#comment-913 Kate - Not a stupid question at all. Colour management is complicated and even the best of us find it a little confusing at times. The short answer is yes. If you want to be sure that the image on your display is accurately displaying your digital image - you should calibrate it.Think of it like this - you wouldn't do your image processing with green tinted sunglasses, right? How do you know your display isn't leaning a little green? Or red? blue? How do you know the blacks are black and the whites are white? You don't - unless you have a hardware-based calibration tool, and use it regularily.I recommend you look into the Pantone products - they have a few - Huey, Huey Pro... or Gretag Macbeth's Eye-One Display Two (this is what I use and I love it)Does this help? Kate – Not a stupid question at all. Colour management is complicated and even the best of us find it a little confusing at times. The short answer is yes. If you want to be sure that the image on your display is accurately displaying your digital image – you should calibrate it.

Think of it like this – you wouldn’t do your image processing with green tinted sunglasses, right? How do you know your display isn’t leaning a little green? Or red? blue? How do you know the blacks are black and the whites are white? You don’t – unless you have a hardware-based calibration tool, and use it regularily.

I recommend you look into the Pantone products – they have a few – Huey, Huey Pro… or Gretag Macbeth’s Eye-One Display Two (this is what I use and I love it)

Does this help?

]]> By: kate w.http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/03/go-away-or-today-is-calibrate-and-backup-day/comment-page-1/#comment-912 kate w. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:00:31 +0000 http://pixelatedimage.com/blog/?p=361#comment-912 Ok, so I'm new, and this may be a stupid question, but do I have to calibrate if I don't actually make prints myself? Ok, so I’m new, and this may be a stupid question, but do I have to calibrate if I don’t actually make prints myself?

]]> By: Devanhttp://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/03/go-away-or-today-is-calibrate-and-backup-day/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Devan Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:29:10 +0000 http://pixelatedimage.com/blog/?p=361#comment-911 Thanks for the reminder!Back ups complete! Thanks for the reminder!

Back ups complete!

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