Colour Management – Part 1 and 2 – Calibrating and Profiling Display Devices Report

 Calibrating and Profiling Display Devices

The first half of this project asks us to calibrate a home computer whether it be your laptop or to take the calibration device home and use it on your desktop. I decided to bring my Hp pavillion Windows 7 laptop into class and calibrate it before tech class. Knowing that photography/our school believes that everyone should have a mac I went to talk to Dave about calibrating my windows laptop. I needed to use an older device to do so, and I also needed to install a software update to my computer to run the calibration device. The device itself was the X-Rite i1 Display 2 and once I had everything installed the actually process of calibrating was rather self explanatory, I just followed the prompts and chose the advanced options but because it was a laptop there were no options like changing the contrast, I could only change the brightness.

The results unfortunately were not as I'd hoped, below is the screen shot of the profile results for my laptop calibration. Alas there are wiggly lines!

Calibration of my HP Pavillion laptop

Gamma target: 2.2
gamma current: 2.3

Calibration of the EIZO monitor #18

After Calibrating my laptop I calibrated a digital darkroom monitor, my monitor number is 18, The monitor is an EIZO FlexScan SX2462W with the X-rite i1 profile device.

When calibrating this monitor I had much more control over things for example I could adjust the screen's Red, Green and Blue levels, I could adjust the contrast level and the brightness level ask the software asked me to do so, this helped the final result as you can see below are the screenshots for
Screenshot from calibrating the Eizo monitor. Because I had much more control on the desktop rather than the laptop my results were better i.e. lines not so wiggly. 

Second follow up Calibration screenshots on Eizo monitor #18

Below are the screen shots for the follow up calibration of the EIZO monitor #18 I did on the 28^th of March (using the X-rite i1 profile device again). This calibration went a lot smoother than the first time round, being more experienced made the process easier and quicker.

I adjusted the RGB levels and brightness/contrast levels as instructed by the software. 

Colour Sync Comparison

EIZO compared to Adobe Profile
this screen shot shows us that the EIZO monitor has more of a colour space than the adobeRGB

This shot is comparing The EIZO monitor to itself from the calibrations I completed in week 4 and week 8. As you can see they are very similar.

This screenshot is the colour sync comparison of my home HP laptop and the Eizo Monitor,
as you can see there is a massive different in colour spaces, obviously the EIZO monitor is more capable with colour than my HP laptop but surprisingly form this caparison you can see that in the reds, yellows and greens my laptop is coming though meaning it is stronger with those colours.