As you should be running this calibration at least every couple of months, and the brightness module allows you to keep the monitor(s) consistent, it takes much less time to do this maintenance and frees up time for editing. it doesn't get any easier than the Elite. From what I've read recently on another forum, this software seems to use a unique calibration matrix for wide gamut monitors that is superior to versions prior to 4.x and other calibrators such as the i1 Display2.ģ. For the most accurate calibration you want to use the the Elite with the v4.0 or higher software. Wide Gamut monitors - these cover the standard sRGB color space as well as the larger AdobeRGB color space. I'm not a MAc user so I'm not sure on this process.Ģ. Note that it seems with Mac's the Spyder software can automatically adjust brightness. Otherwise with too dark a monitor you may find yourself with prints that are too light. As the monitor brightness plays with the perceptual bias of your eye when editing, it is important to keep it at a level in balance with the ambient lighting of the room you edit in.
No work arounds required, it does the calibration for each monitor and writes a new unique ICC profile to disk for each monitor, and assigns it to the correct device in the Windows Color Management utility.Īnother point on brightness, the CCFL back lights dim over time, very much so in the first year of use for some monitors. If the white luminance is not where you want it, you have to go through most of the calibration again which takes several minutes.įurthermore I believe the Elite is optimized for calibrating a system with multiple monitors. You will get a value for white luminance at the end of the calibration but to get to that value you make adjustments by eye, not by what the puck measures. The Pro, having a crippled version of the Elite software, lacks this key brightness module. White luminance is the variable by which you quantify and adjust brightness.
The Elite has a dedicated software module for setting a targeted "white luminance" value and then walking you through the steps to get to that exact value. Where you have 2 or 3 monitors sitting side by side it is not only ideal to have all three with their RGB similar (6500K, 2.2 Gamma) but also their brightness identical. You have a dual or triple monitor system, or.ġ.
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