That said you may get away without some sort of a clue on colour management in some photographic areas, But when it comes to product shots, Customers generally prefer their products to look as they intended, Especially paint manufacturers and the like.įor wedding shooters I guess the odd pinkish/brownish/tanned bride will go unnoticed.:$ Just how long is a piece of string if you do not have a tape measure to hand.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Īs Gundog has eluded to, Getting your colour workflow absolutely right, Does not just rely on screen calibration alone, It helps though. Perfect and then colour reproduction, Until these have been analysed by a device that bases its results on known values, Are at best a guess or a shot in the dark.:) It is interesting that you declare it has "absolutely perfect colour reproduction" So is it more down to how good your monitor is rather than actually having to calibrate or am i missing something ? Uninstalled and uncalibrated the spyder stuff and put the new monitor in, absolutely perfect colour reproduction without any calibration at all. Quote:However I have just purchased a 27Inch IPS monitor.
One good thing about the Spyder pucks is that you can use them even with 3rd party software - BasICColor Display plays nicely with them in my experience for about 100 bucks. With more advanced calibration software you can leave these calibration settings at 'native' and the profile mitigates for the differences in colour-managed programs, which theoretically results in less likelihood of banding. The colour shift you see at startup is the gamma/tonal response curve and white point calibration data kicking in, which corrects colour, neutralises greys, and defines the colour of white. In either case a custom profile is preferable. If you're not using a profile supplied with the monitor you'll instead be using the default system sRGB profile, which is only ever a loose representation of an LCD at best. A new monitor might come supplied with a fairly decent canned profile, but that profile relies upon a predetermined calibration state, so over time and/or if you make any adjustments to the monitor the profile becomes increasingly irrelevant. Maybe, although I agree with the basic premise that calibrators are a little oversold. However I have just purchased a 27Inch IPS monitor.