Colour Tag

Despite sounding like some kind of washing powder technology that stops your colours running and still keeps whites whiter than white, colour management is all about ensuring that what you see on your computer monitor is what you get out of your printer. The ColorMunki X-Rite Photo is a device that helps you manage your colours, and one that is excellent on several counts…it is by far and away the easiest colour calibration tool I have used to date.

One of the most frequent complaints when comparing a print of an image to its display on a monitor is that the print looks too dark and/or flat…

I dubiously opened the package, half expecting to be bombarded with a box covered in buzzwords and promises to make my screen come alive with colour! Thankfully there was none of that, just a simple straight to the point statement; “Get the most from your monitor”. Okay, so this is starting well, I thought.

Colour management doesn’t feature in many photographers’ workflow and quite frankly they’re missing out. Calibrating your monitor is an essential first step; viewing images with accurate colour can save you hours of photo-editing that often result in grisly prints (featuring your portrait subject with glowing orange fake Tan-Go skin tones).

Are you tired of printing and hit-or-miss editing the same images multiple times in an attempt to get one good print? This hour long webinar will show you how to put a color workflow in place from image capture all the way through image editing and printer output.

Fortunately the new SpyderCube is neither a Spiderman themed Rubik’s cube nor a Halloween offering from OXO: It’s the ultimate white balance tool for every photographer who loves accurate colour.

ColorMunki create colour control and creation tools for digital workflow and their workforce of ColorMunki-ites were all over the halls of Photokina promoting the MacBeth Colour Checker Chart, a checkerboard array of 24 scientifically prepared coloured squares that enable you to portray accurate representation in your photos. To support this promotion, ColorMunki are running a competition: Where in the world is your ColorChecker?