Archive for the 'Camera Profile' category
Camera ICC Profiles for Capture One Users!
by Brenda K. Hipsher – January 8th, 2019
Photographers can now create and save custom ICC camera profiles for virtually any lighting situation utilizing either an X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Photo or ColorChecker Classic target together with the X-Rite Camera Calibration software v1.2.… Read more
Push Your Camera Profile to the MAX
by Alan Winslow – November 14th, 2017
Fall Foliage and a Custom Camera Profile make a Perfect Pair Whether you’re aware or not, Adobe software attaches a camera profile to each raw image you process in any Adobe program. In this article we look at using a… Read more
Teach Your ColorMunki New Tricks!
by Alan Winslow – November 8th, 2017
ColorMunki Photo and ColorMunki Design users get a FREE i1Studio upgrade Teach your ColorMunki new tricks using just released X-Rite i1Studio, your all-in-one calibration solution for cameras, scanners, displays, printers, projectors, and iOS mobile devices. Shipping with the hardware is the re-designed i1Studio… Read more
Why we need ICC Profiles and what they actually do.
by Sandra Kehoe – August 29th, 2017
Guest blog by Photographer, Educator and X-Rite Coloratti Martin Bailey Following the release of my video on soft-proofing, I received a few questions that helped me to realize that I need to spend a little time going over the reasons that… Read more
Better Color Better Perception – John Paul Caponigro
by Sandra Kehoe – July 18th, 2017
Great Tools for Great Color – Guest blog by John Paul Caponigro Good tools get the job done well; great tools change the way I see. I’ve found it extremely valuable to consider how each tool I use in my… Read more
How to use a ColorChecker Passport to create consistently excellent color.
by Sandra Kehoe – April 1st, 2017
I recently watched a video on YouTube where a photographer compared a Canon DSLR against a pair of digital medium format cameras. The Canon images were notably red on the skin tones, which the photographer claimed was well known in… Read more
A Journey Through Color – Coloratti Ashley Karyl
by Dave Mobbs – December 7th, 2016
Sooner or later, every photographer wonders why the colors in an image are all wrong and the questions always end with the same answer. They need a properly color managed workflow. My photographic journey towards color management ironically started in… Read more
ColorChecker Turns 40!
by Sandra Kehoe – March 18th, 2016
It’s hard to believe that the Macbeth ColorChecker Color Rendition Chart, or ColorChecker Classic as it’s known today, has been used in the image reproduction process for the last forty years. What is incredible is that this appears to be… Read more
A Passport to Great and Accurate Color by Coloratti Ian MacDonald-Smith
by Sandra Kehoe – July 10th, 2015
Who wants bad color? If you’re one of the few then read no further. I, however, always want to have the option to start with the best possible color from an image. My genres of landscape and abstract perhaps allow… Read more
Mystical Morning – The Journey And The Destination by Coloratti Jason DiMichele
by Sandra Kehoe – June 16th, 2015
Guest blog by X-Rite Coloratti Jason DiMichele Many times we are fixated on getting to that favorite shooting location that we forget to pay attention to the happenings around us. In these days of not having enough time, there’s a… Read more
How to Get Perfect Color in Portrait & Landscape Photography
by Sandra Kehoe – June 5th, 2015
Photographer and X-Rite Coloratti Joe Brady talks about color in both landscape and portrait photography and easy it is to get great color with the ColorChecker Passport from X-Rite. Getting great color seems like an easy request, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t… Read more
File Basics: How to Color Calibrate A Camera
by Jeff Lazell – August 19th, 2014
Welcome to File Basics, a new feature to the X-Rite blog where I hope to demystify a lot of the settings and terms associated with building an effective post processing workflow. I worked on the production side of the photo… Read more