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Monitors shift overtime and need to be corrected to remain accurate. We recommend at least as often as once per month. The best course of action to prevent this problem is to calibrate your photo-editing monitor regularly. Then, if you were to look at that same image on a calibrated screen, you would think the image looks way too warm. By adding additional warmth to that photo (because of the way your monitor is displaying it), you are unknowingly making that photo much more warm than you intend to. You might warm up the white balance of an image that seems too blue, when in reality the image is fine and your screen is simply displaying colors wrong and shifting all colors toward the blue direction. When your monitor is not displaying colors accurately, it means you are editing photos based on an inaccurate representation of colors. To put it in perspective, almost ALL normal monitors are at least a little bit off-color right out of the box. It looks perfect.” We hope so, but we know that our eyes play tricks on us when it comes to color, contrast and luminance. You might be thinking, “My screen is brand new.

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The software that comes with these devices reads the way your screen displays colors and creates a profile for your screen that will correct it to the industry standard.

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The two devices we recommend the most are the Datacolor Spyder 5 Pro and the X-Rite Colormunki Display. It’s important to use a monitor calibration device to “calibrate” the screen you use for photo editing.

If that monitor profile is a little bit inaccurate, which it usually is, that means the monitor is showing you a different red than you know you captured. For example, if you take a photo of a bright red strawberry and copy it to your computer, your computer will display that strawberry red based on the monitor profile that is selected. This is a necessary process for any photographer, and here’s why: Your expensive camera can capture beautiful colors, but your computer doesn’t automatically translate those colors correctly. The end goal is for the monitor to display the most accurate colors possible. A profile is, essentially, a set of instructions for how your monitor should display colors. Still, for the novice user performing occasional calibrations, it's pretty much spot on, colour casts will be banished and all your future image adjustments accurate and worthwhile.Monitor Calibration is the process of creating a new monitor “profile” for your laptop or desktop. The X-Rite Colormunki display will set you back £199 and retails in the US for $189 ($229.95 in Australia). The only minor niggle is that although it works in much the same way as the i1 Display Pro device, it's considerably slower (but you should bear in mind that it's around £50 cheaper too). Overall, there's very little not to like: the results appear accurate and no obvious colour biases can be observed, and reminders can be set up should the lighting conditions change or if a large period of time elapses between calibrations. The advanced controls enable you to measure flare from your display and to take this into account, along with white point specification and other options.

Approximate timings are given throughout the process, and once complete it's possible to view before and after comparisons using a range of images.

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The software takes around two minutes to adjust the display's luminance using a series of patches, before the remainder are displayed and measured over an additional five minutes.

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