Monday is a good day to calibrate your monitor
by admin on Jun.15, 2009, under Helpful Stuff, photo color
It is Monday morning and time to calibrate your monitor.
This morning I decided to practice what I preach (click on color monitor in the Tag Cloud section on the right sidebar) and calibrate my monitor. I used a Pantone huey that I have had for a couple of years and within a minute or so my monitor was calibrated. And, WOW, did it make a difference!
How can you tell if your monitor color is off? A simple way is to look at the colors in the header of my blog. The graduated grey scale is there for a purpose. If it is really grey and not a little blue or magenta or cyan then you are okay. If not, you need to calibrate. My guess is that even if you think it is grey, it is not. So, I suggest you invest in a monitor calibrator.
For us amateurs I would suggest either a Pantone huey or a Datacolor Sypder2express. The are available for about $80.00 and well worth the investment. Both companies have more expensive calibration devices, but unless you are a pro I would not spend the extra bucks.
If you are editing photos and trying to Make The Color Right, you really need to have a calibrated monitor unless, of course, if you are color blind like my friends, Dick and Ron. They can save the money because it wouldn’t really make a difference. However, there are ways for color blind people to Make the Color Right and I will cover that in a separate post one of these days.
