But we found no such issues with the hueyPRO and continue to use one on our second computer here.īut in that review, we confessed we were long-time devotees of Datacolor's Spyder. Our review of the hueyPRO ( ) noted the dissatisfaction our Atlanta lab guys had with its predecessor. Pantone, famous in commercial printing circles for getting color right, came out with a little stick of a colorimeter called the huey that not only calibrated your monitor but stuck around to monitor the ambient light, adjusting monitor brightness as the room light changed. We'd calibrated our monitors and planned to live happily ever after, recalibrating every month or so with the same gadget. Years ago we thought we'd seen enough of these gadgets. Others have been reading us for years and believe what we tell them: you need a little gadget to get this reliably right enough to do as frequently as it needs doing. Some people flatter themselves that they can do this by eye. It takes some adjustment to get it right. The well-balanced monitor does not come out of a box. It makes your photographs look real, too. Monitors cry out for a certain kind of balance that's frankly admirable. Going green may be one of the newer virtues, but we predict it will never catch on where your monitor is concerned. At the bunker, we decided to take this seriously by painting the whole place green. The thirsty encourage it by wearing a bit of green themselves.

The beer around here recently turned green, as it does every year in the middle of March for some inexplicable reason. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter The Blarney Stone of Calibration Datacolor Spyder3 - Charming Color Into Compliance By MIKE PASINI

Monitor Calibration with the Datacolor Spyder3 Elite

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