Color Calibration and Profiling
Calibrate, profile (or characterize), and optimize your monitor, printer, digital camera, and scanner so that what you see is what you print. Learn about ICC Profiles and their use in Color Management Systems
- Color Correction
- Color Management Systems (5)
- ICC Profiles (6)
- Target Images (5)
- Visual Monitor Calibration (5)
Calibrate Your Monitor
Images on screen look different from the same image in print. Calibrating your monitor provides a screen display that simulates what you would see on paper.
Calibrate Your Printer
Calibrating your printer helps to insures that what you print is consistent with what you see on-screen. The two go hand in hand.
Calibrate Your Scanner
Scanner calibration goes along with monitor and printer calibration to help get the best color match possible from three very different devices.
Calibrate Your Digital Camera
Calibrating your digital camera can save much image editing time and provide better pictures.
Readers Respond: How Do You Calibrate Your Hardware?
What color calibration tools or methods do you recommend? Do you calibrate your monitor, printer, scanner, and digital camera? If not, why not. If so, what methods do you use?