I JUST purchased a ColorChecker Passport and this video was super helpful. Thanks a lot Mark.

I learnt so much from your tutorials, thank you so much. Mark is brilliant, his pitch and pace of teaching is superb. I love how these tutorials explains everything thoroughly from the very basics and also with those additional diagrams on the TV to help you understand everything clearly.

Great video, Mark. I like to add that the Colorchecker Passport works in tandem with a monitor calibrator. If possible on a wide gamut monitor. Also when naming the color profile, one should mentioned the camera brand and model. As the different sensors can pick up blues differently to each other. If you want to be super-OCD on it, you can create a profile for every lenses used, too. Source: I'm a super-OCD still life photographer.

This the best DIY " how to video" that I have ever seem. I have been following Mark since i pick up the hobby of shooting photos. Mark!!!, Thank you so much. Keep up the good work.

he knows what he is talking about, great mark thanks

Thanks Mark. I watch both AdoramaTV and DtownTV and it's episodes like this that are more detailed in instruction from start to finish that sets AdoramaTV above!

Thank you. I was confused on this Color Checker, I should have used this since long time ago whenever I shoot models or landscapes.

THANK YOU!

Fantastically helpful video. Thanks Mark!

Mark, As always, You are The MAN! Great video!

thank you for the info. i got one in a mono light kit i picked up .. good to learn not to touch . i had not opened it yet . and was looking for info on how to use it . this video covered it well

Excellent mark!

Brilliant - thanks Mark.

Mark cant stop learning from you, simple but to the point, easy to understand. thank you. by the way till Elie i love her eyes...;) Yasser

it's really great tips for WB...love dat.. and also lightroom access..

@dennisteel Yes... and yes. :) You need for color accuracy, a different profile every time you shoot. You'll end up with a lot of profiles, but you can easily delete anyone you want by opening the colorchecker profile manager which is part of the software included with the colorchecker passport. It is pretty simple and very accurate. I am addicted to it. The best invention after the wheel and the microwave. :-)

another homerun mark knocked it outta the park

Sir u r a gem...thanks...

Excellent video. No need to sign up for a costly photo class. A question: can the same calibration be done with Camera Raw in Photoshop?

grate!! video informative.thanks

wow, such a good lesson

Thanx so much for this tutorials. How about calibrating my monitor? Thanx!

Mark I need your Advice regarding the X-rite Color Checker Passport Software. I had taken a Photo with the color checker in the scene and used the CD-Software to create a color profile by creating a DNG-file. I found that I am unable to export that into Photoshop or Lightroom to create a custom profile. I have the latest version of Photoshop and Lightroom with my Creative Cloud subscription. I had been led to believe that the only way that this would work in both LrC and Ps is to create a DNG-File. I have not been able to export it. Should I skip the Software altogether and download the RAW-File with the Color Checker in it.

The custom profile looks awesome! Often I find myself cycling through many of Lightroom's camera profiles, and none of them seem to look right - especially the skin tones. I'm gonna have to pick one of these up.

Thanks Mark for answering my question! Best Regards, Kwok

@lenhister It was created for my Business of Boudoir workshop.

so informative and great

hello,thank you for the information about photograph

Nice lecture (y)

Mark, Thanks for the great tutorial! How can you measure the color temperature of a light source using Lightroom or Photoshop and color checker passport. Also, I am getting many different white balance measurements on a neutral patch? Click in different spots and Lightroom will adjust it differently every time and makes a difference in my color. Thanks so much!

So is a camera profile made for EVERY lighting environment? If so wouldn't managing all the profiles get to be a mess? Can you remove profiles from Lightroom, and if they're removed what happens to the photos that were processed with that profile?

Nice vid, Mark :-)

What computer software (windows) should I acquire for ColorChecker to work properly?

So what do you do when you are taking both video and still of a subject and trying to make the images look similar (white balance, Color balance, color tone, etc)? Exampole: Still photos with Nikon d7000, video with Sony SLT A65. Thanks

So are the WB and the color profile different things? I don't know why I'm having trouble understanding this, but it seems to me that if you change the WB, that it would effect the color calibration setting. And are these settings different if they are used in Adobe Raw vs. Lightroom?

How do I not have one of these color checkers yet?!

Hi! which version of Light room you are using? as in my Lr I am not able to find the camera calibration module/panel. please tell

@JCSolar thanks for the reply. So what happens to photos processed with a particular profile once that profile has been removed?

So per scene you have to make a new profile? Aren't you going to get like thousands of profiles in a little while?

Mark, can this be used in Premiere Pro or other video software?

Killer guys!!

Mark, does this need to be done for each session and in each lighting situation? Or, once you calibrate the camera you can use the profile again and again?

Oooh, "Boudoir Set", what's that all about, Mark ? ;)

I believe it's pronounced "Kwok."

@vinozorolla I've been using i1Display 2 for many years ($99 @Amazon), easy to use, accurate and never fail. Great investment.

I think I see her teeth? :o