How good is this for graphic design/photography/anyone using it for the creative field when color accuracy is important?
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For my use in amateur photography it serves its purpose, however for serious graphic design/photography I believe you will need to get a higher resolution monitor. However, for the price this monitor serves my purpose. I will mention that before I order this monitor I read a lot of the critiques online. Most felt it was a good monitor. Those who seem to be more professional didn't feel it was good enough for their purpose.
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I find it works well in photoshop. certainly better than a mouse. It takes a lot of practice to get fine details, but I think it's worth it.
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A professional cartoonist, per se, could definitely use the Graphire4 and be more than happy.Someone who does extremely detailed art, though, and I mean the type of art that makes you dizzy with detail, would probably benefit from the Intuos3. But honestly I think just about anyone can get away with the Graphire4 if they're worried about the money, it's such a great tool. Just ask yourself if you need the extra pressure sensitivity. (That's what it's all about, predominately.)
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I don't know. We returned this scanner after testing it with reference colors palette. It didn't meeting our quality requirements. I would not recommend this scanner for any application that require color accuracy.
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I like the colors just fine. Just make sure you use the proper white balance or else you can get colors that are not accurate...I think this is normal for any camera if proper white balancing is not used. The camera has a wonderful zoom (30x optical) which works well, but for macro, you will need to shoot with it all the way out (1x) and then move the camera close to your subject for the best results. As you increase the zoom, you lose some ability to get close-up, but I've had some wonderful floral pix with this camera.
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I'm not a photographer either. I use it to print design pieces and it works great. I recommend buying the cable for more reliable printing. You'll need it anyway for set up.
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I use it for Landscape. I teach professional photographers. It would be very good for architecture especially when you have mixed lighting. You get its maximum benefit when used with Adobe Lightroom. It will do two things. It gives you a neutral target to do an accurate white balance. With Lightroom it will create a custom profile for your camera under the lighting condition you are shooting. This creates very accurate colors. It also works great with shooting RAW files but that's another discussion.
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If you are that concerned about the CRI (Color Rendering Index) of these buy one and test it. Personally once I have my lighting set, I set the white balance in camera and tweak in post. Typically it is a very minor tweak if any. So far I have not noticed any shift in color from one lamp to the next - I have 4 of them-. If and when color is that critical use a color chart, there again as everyone's (your audience's) TV/Monitor/Screen is going to be an uncontrollable variable, in terms of color output... Add to that, the TLCI is more relevant for video. If you are transferring your video to film then the CRI has more relevance due to the nature of the film's emulsion, which in itself is a variable as one batch of film will vary from the one before or after just as the imaging chip of one camera can and will vary to the next. Lastly most color correction software can combat -with a little work- the effects of a cross-curve. If you want inexpensive lights that work get these, if you want perfectly clean color from your lights then you will have to pay a lot more.
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I have a system built for Photoshop CS6. ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+;AMD FX-8150; 24gigs of DDR3 Ram; PSU 750 and ASUS 2GB GDDR5 card. It performed as I expected. But what made it even more impressive was when I bought a second card and joined the two in crossfire mode. I was impressed how "smooth" it performed running Photoshop. It should be more than adequate for graphic editing with single card.
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This is the deep and meaningful subject of color management. Basically you need to be aware that all devices do their best to produce consistent colors but all of them have slight differences (mostly unavoidable). Color management is a process that attempts to deal with this. Input devices like cameras and scanners are profiled, imaging software can use that profile to convert it to an independant "color space", and then can convert the colors to profiled output devices so the output is as close as possible to the desired colors. The most common devices in use by most photographers are: - Digital camera...often using white balance instead of a profile (your D200 is like that...I use one too) - Monitor...these can be VERY different (just visit your local TV store...all the models will have subtle differences) - Printer...being subtractive rather than additive color these require a lot of conversion and the profiles are different for each paper on each printer and will change when you renew your ink. Most people accept an averaged profile from the paper manufacturer for the specific printer model they are using. For monitor and printer the only true way to assess the profile is a hardware device (spectracolorimeter) that actually outputs test colors and measures the color. These are very affordable for monitors and HIGHLY recommended (I use a Huey, the Spyder is another example). Mine is hooked up all the time and adusts the profile every couple of minutes to allow for the changing color of ambient light. The printer equivelant is expensive so several alternative approaches have emerged...all using test cards/prints of some type. If you want one of the best solutions at the moment look at PrintFIX Pro...the suite comes with the Spyder included. NOTE: They quite literally write books about this stuff...so expect to invest a little effort to get your head around it. It can be confusing at first (and later too actually...but it is worth it if you want consistent color prints).
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The ColorChecker is a separate device used in photography and works in your imaging applications like Lightroom, Photoshop, Elements etc and it works independently of any monitor calibration device. You don't need any monitor calibration device to fully use this product. It is a very useful device and X-Rite claims that it is the most photographed subject in the world because so many pros use it. The application is very simple to use. You just place the Passport in your first image and the app will find the color chips in that photo and match the white balance and colors to the standard color values for all your images in those same lighting conditions. It does all the math in seconds and then saves the ICC Profile which you can use over and over and you can even send that profile to fellow photographers. Your monitor and printer will be more useful if they are calibrated of course. I have the X-Rite ColorMunki and I bought it bundled with the Passport from Amazon.
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I use it for Photoshop, and it seems to work very well. Photoshop itself has issues with Windows 8, but that's another issue.
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I agree with Mariano, and there are many variations of "White Paper" with different brightness levels. The DGK is consistent. I personally use the neutral gray. The two ways I know to use it are to shoot ir close up and then use your camera's custom WB to set the WB, or shoot in RAW and put the DGK in a sample shot at the start and again any time your light changes and batch adjust your WB in a program like Lightroom or Aperture.
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I purchased this monitor to edit my photographs so I depended on color accuracy. However in order to get the accuracy you need even with this monitor you will need to buy a colorMunki or some other calibrating deviceto ensure your colours are accurate. there are several books sold on Amazon to instruct on color management.
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Doubtful, at the price point this monitor is designed for general use. Also, I haven't seen any professional reviews of anyone measuring the accuracy of sRGB and/or Adobe RGB coverage. If you're concerned about color accuracy, this monitor also uses a TN panel not an IPS panel that you'd find in higher-end sudo-professional or higher monitors such as the pro series BenQ monitors or the Dell Ultrasharp series.
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I have been pleased with this monitor. I use it for Indesign and Photoshop. I can pretty easily match the monitor color to my output device for consistent pleasing color. I have had this monitor about 8 months and use it in a dual monitor set up in Windows 8.1.
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As the others have said, it's excellent for photo editing -- that's the only reason you'd spend the money, to get color accuracy. To make it really rock, you need a hardware calibrator such as a Spyder Pro, and then match a printer profile in Photoshop to the printer you print to. At that point, you are a pro!