Color Calibration
Datacolor has just released several color calibration products designed for a wide range of digital creatives, including those working in photography, videography, content creation, digital design, and more. Calibrating a monitor allows for a color-accurate starting point for editing, allowing users to express their creative vision, both digitally and in print.
Datacolor Spyder Essential and SpyderPro Advanced Colorimeters
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Whether you’re talking hue, saturation, exposure, or white balance, modern cameras can capture video in extremely flexible codecs and color spaces that give you a lot of headroom to tweak settings during post-production. But that freedom comes with a warning: if the highlights or the shadows are clipped, there’s no bringing back that information, as the camera simply didn’t capture it. That means you can have
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Making sure colors are accurate is a must in visual workflows. In this video, BenQ ambassador Art Suwansang discusses the different types of color calibration tools and how to use them.
0:00 - Introduction
4:28 - Types of Calibrators
12:10 - Software Calibration vs. Hardware Calibration
22:08 - What Happens During Calibration?
26:24 - Adjustments
29:24 - External Software and Hardware for Calibrating Displays
32:53 - BenQ Displays
34:57 - What to do Before Calibration
40:23 - Calibrate Frequently
42:04 - Q&A
Ready to calibrate those
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Color management can be tough to wrap your head around. Matt Hill goes over the basics of color management and color correction. He shows you how to set up a color checker in Lightroom Classic, how to adjust color, and how to focus stack macro photography.
0:00 - Introduction
3:57 - Capturing Macro Images
6:06 - What Do Color Problems Look Like?
9:35 - Take Control of Your Inputs: Color Checker, Stability, and Color Calibration
17:41 - Color Management and Color Correction Are Not the Same
20:06 - Setting Up Color Checker Profiles in
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Do your landscape photos look a little flat? Well, you’re in luck. In this video, Alex Hinson teaches you about the key tools in Adobe Lightroom that will help bring out those gorgeous, natural colors in your photos.
0:00 - Introduction
1:20 - How to Bring out the Colors you Want
2:58 - Image Editing Tools
9:07 - Getting a Great Final Image, from Capture to Edit
10:07 - Using Filters
11:11 - NFTs in Art and Photography
13:26 - Why Use Lightroom
15:00 - Staying Inspired
17:07 - Final Thoughts
Ready to start taking your landscape photography
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Join astro/landscape photographer Matt Hill as he shares a few simple tips to get beautiful dusk and golden-hour photos full of rich, vibrant, and accurate colors.
0:00 - Introduction
3:46 - Why Night Photographers Photograph the Sunset and Twilight
11:03 - Good Capture Leads to Good Edits
14:04 - What Color is Twilight? / Mojave Case Study
24:59 - Twilight Capture Settings
27:16 - Color Checker
29:24 - Editing in Lightroom Classic
33:13 - How to Apply Color-Checker Calibration to Photos
44:58 - Creating a Signature Method
47:42 - The Color
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Color calibration is an important process when taking and editing photos. With the Spyder5CAPTURE PRO bundle, it only takes a few steps to ensure perfect, consistent color in all your shots.
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This video gives you a look at the Datacolor Spyder5, which comes in three different versions: the Express, Pro, and Elite. Each version features the same hardware, the differentiating factor being the bundled software, which adds features incrementally in each step-up version. The Spyder5 is compatible with both laptop and desktop computers, to calibrate all of your screens. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other
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In the following video, Mia McCormick, from KelbyOne, discusses how to bring consistent color to your photos and video using the portable Datcolor SpyderCHECKR 24 color calibration system. The video highlights using the 24 spectrally designed pigment patches on the SpyderCHECKR color card to match color between shots, scenes, and cameras, as well as using the gray scale on the reverse side to adjust white balance and exposure.
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Join B&H’s own video writer Steven Gladstone and commercial/fine art photographer David Saffir as they extol the virtues of the DataColor SpyderHD Color Calibration Bundle. The kit is a complete solution for photographers and videographers who wish to “harmonize” the color in their still or motion pictures, containing all the components they need to calibrate cameras and monitors. Using the color-calibration kit will
Whenever you open, select, or edit the digital images you’ve shot, or creatively correct or enhance them using post-production software such as Photoshop or Lightroom, you are relying on a display device—a monitor connected to or built into your computer, tablet, or smartphone—to show you an accurate representation of the colors, color saturation, monochrome tonality, contrast and other characteristics of the images captured by your camera. If what you see on the monitor does not match what the camera captured, the prints made from these files