What is monitor calibration and why is it important?
When viewing images, once the data is read from your image file, it undergoes several transformations until it is displayed on your monitor or printer. The actual view of the image that you see depends on your monitor or printer settings. Specifically, on your monitor or printer brightness (black point), contrast (white point), and gamma settings. In addition, monitors and printers are very different creatures. Monitors will reflect light on a screen, while a printed page will absorb light reflected on paper. Monitors will use an RGB color space while printers might use other color spaces, such as CMYK. Overall, The way images look on screen is different from the way they will look on a printed page. Calibrating your monitor provides a screen display that simulates what you would see on paper. Device settings are defined by an ICC Profile. an ICC Profile contains the information needed by Color Management systems to translate color information between different devices, such as a monit
Related Questions
- After calibration I manually adjusted some of the monitor controls to get a better color match for my particular application. What happens the next time I calibrate the monitor?
- Does ColorMunki have fixed pre-sets or does it give you choices of white point setting for monitor calibration?
- Why is Monitor Calibration Important?
