Why you need to calibrate your display / Featuring the Datacolor SpyderX

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Display calibration is something every photographer, video editor, and designer should do. But why is it necessary? And what should you use? In this video, I explain why calibration is important, how to calibrate using the Datacolor SypderX Pro, and provide answers to common questions.
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0:00 Intro
1:10 What does calibration do?
4:05 Calibration using the SpyderX
12:15 Calibration results
14:50 Using ColorSync to view changes
16:54 Is display calibration enough?
18:44 Will my display look better?
19:10 Will multiple displays match?
19:29 Can I share the SpyderX?
20:00 Calibrate once and done?
20:45 SpyderX Anniversary Special
22:00 Outro
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@davyjonesdiver9782 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Super informative and I like how you went beyond simply describing how the SpyderXPro works and explained colour and monitor calibration theory.

@RichardGingrasPhotography 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Todd for this tutorial. Just what I needed to start calibrating my monitor.

@LimaGolf284th 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Not only did you produce the best video, on calibration that I've seen, you also got me a great deal. Not more than 10 minutes, before viewing this video, I had placed an order, for the SpyderX Pro and a color checker, with my favorite on-line photo retailer. Upon seeing the information, on the "$199.00 Anniversary Special", that you provided, I click on the link, placed my order, and then canceled my previous order. To say your video was timely, would be an understatement. Thanks ever so much.

@Yanisoz 2 жыл бұрын

1. You are very good at explaining color calibration! 2. You have a lovely voice and sound quality! 3. You have nicely lited your environment for this occasion! 4. Most likely you make very nice pictures! 5. I like you and am subscribing to your channel.

@bertagriese8282 Жыл бұрын

6. Sounds really like you're gay.

@leosheepman Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this, about to do this with a SpyderX for the first time and this was extremely helpful.

@josephramone5805 9 ай бұрын

The wheel misalignment is an excellent analogy 🙏🏼

@tonymckeage1028 3 жыл бұрын

Great Vlog, interesting subject and great process, once again, your advice and argument is on point, thanks for sharing

@PMCN53 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Tod, great vlog, i have just purchased a new iMac 2020 with retina display. I have Spyder 4, & will do a calibration ASAP. It will be interesting to see the results. Thanks for your tutorial 👍🏻🇦🇺👍🏻

@SuperFucdat 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Todd & the best on colour calibration using the spyderX on youtube by far. I’ve just ordered one because of your video. Thanks. Mark🇬🇧

@dominey 3 жыл бұрын

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@jjmummert Жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation. Thank you.

@dougnelson423 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Todd. Thanks

@ryanzepp9185 3 жыл бұрын

Can’t believe you don’t have 1 million plus subs such good quality videos

@lynsmith1096 9 ай бұрын

Good tutorial Todd. Just subscribed.

@tonydesarzec907 3 жыл бұрын

If you plan to print your photographs I strongly recommend that you calibrate your monitor. If you use something like a Datacolor Spyder you’ll get good results. But what settings should you calibrate to? It can be confusing. The film and television industries set the colour of grey (white point) at 6500 Kelvin (D65). But digital cameras use a white point of D55 (or D56). Then again, the printing industry sets the white point at 5000 Kelvin (D50)! So when you mix your images, if you plan to print them, use a white point of D50. If you watch movies on your screen, calibrate to D65. Fun isn’t it? The printing company I use recommend the following settings for your monitor if you intend to print your photos -  The brightness of the monitor should lie between 90 and 120 cd/qm.  The colour temperature must be set at 5.000 Kelvin (D50).  The monitor gamma should be adjusted to 2.2. I hope this helps.

@dominey 3 жыл бұрын

Fun indeed! What a mess we have to contend with. Your point about white point is great for someone could create a calibration profile using D50 for use when editing images for print, and D65 for editing video or general use.

@BELGRANOization Жыл бұрын

and don't forget that your printer or online shop, should be able to provide you with the color preset that they use so you can literally match on your screen with what you'll get in print... well, maybe 😇 - Also, If I know what the numbers are for each one of the calibrations like gamma and temp numbers, would I get similar results if I do it by hand? - And what about the color profiles provided by my OS Preferences display setting? I actually have gone through several of them and maybe there could be some options there... Just a thought

@flol3266 3 ай бұрын

The brightness depends highly on your ambient light you are editing in. 120cd is too bright for many people and even 90cd is often too bright. A lot of people recommend 80cd for printing. I set my brightness even lower to 60cd and I can recommend everyone to start there and go up by 10cd and try again.

@adams.555 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation.

@naeemashaari 3 жыл бұрын

thank you, great explaination !

@valtherium9789 3 жыл бұрын

the color in this video is awesome

@sonicck 2 жыл бұрын

Great info been sitting on this for awhile just caught B&H Deal Zone, Datacolor SpyderX Elite Color Control Kit for the kit 189.99 regular 399.99 jumped on it after watching this.

@sehkhyro Жыл бұрын

this was insanely helpful

@kitespongan Жыл бұрын

This video was perfect for a major noober like me! Appreciate it! I’m struggling to figure out what display backlight I should choose for my Samsung CJ791. It’s a Q-LED that says it supports sRGB and DCI. 😩

@jbthementor4905 3 жыл бұрын

Todd your absolutely brilliant. Someday KZfaq will rollout the red carpet for you .what lens did you use to film this video and how do you get your videos so sharp ? Take care.

@chinguyen3263 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Todd for helpful information, I have 1 concern need your consult, in this video you introduced should you led light with daylight temp. at or near 5600K, but product medialight preferred have temp. 6500K, so which one we should you 5600K or 6500K will give the best result ? Hope to receive your consult on this! Thanks

@ikicaq 3 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks. Are you running Big Sur on your iMac? If so, how's LR and PS performing with it?

@mike_9995 Жыл бұрын

Hello Todd, thank you so much for this great video. What I am a bit confused about is whether or not my printer should also use the color profile generated by SpyderX Elite. Currently my printer is using a factory provided color profile that matches very closely to (or probably equals) AdobeRGB. In order to match the colors on screen with those printed, should I then not replace the factory provided colour profile with the newly generated SpyderX profile? Or ....maybe I simply shouldn't touch that. I don't know.

@Anithink2do Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@briantafelmeyer7337 3 жыл бұрын

Just ordered one through the link. Hopefully you get some $$$.

@AdamGell 3 жыл бұрын

excellent explanation, I have been using the spyder pro x on a macbook pro laptop images are unsaturated look nothing like they do on screen any help would be appreciated?

@sridhargpillai1985 2 жыл бұрын

Good Video for calibration, Spyderx pro priced almost half of Xrite i1display, how does it compare

@giannizappone6140 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Todd, great. I have one, maybe silly question, if I shoot and print only in B&W , do I need to calibrate my monitor?

@trei2unu Жыл бұрын

Hi Todd! Which one do you like more and use? I'm undecided between the Syderx and Calibrite (Xrite). The Spyderx is cheaper and it's software has a useful display parameters checker but I've read that Calibrite might just be a slightly better calibrator.

@jontran4829 Жыл бұрын

Hi Todd, does the SpyderX provide a separate calibration for the laptop screen and the bigger screen when I dock? Does the laptop know to make that switch or do I need to do it manually when docking and unlocking. Thank you

@Noname-yu8qw 2 жыл бұрын

sometimes when you update the video drivers the settings can change and it's good to check the screen calibration

@jasonlindquistmedia 3 жыл бұрын

Got idisplay pro and used it to calibrate my benq monitor and its great, Im tryin to calibrate my atomos ninja V and its not working < try this?

@peanutchu7903 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Todd, great video. Question, I have been using the spyderx elite for about a month. I was editing my photos using photoshop. But when I viewed using other monitors, it was not looking as good which I possibly expected. So, I decided to calibrate the editing monitor daily for 5 days using the same lighting. The issue that I am finding is that when I compared the color profiles it created, it seemed to vary considerably each day. This is bothersome since I am relying on this color to edit in photoshop. Please let me know what you think. Thanks

@larrydiaz7156 Жыл бұрын

Aside from the fact that the device will have small variations with each calibration, I believe you are probably calibrating over the ICC profile you had already created. Remember that every time you calibrate, you must go reset your monitor and you should also go back to the factory ICC for your monitor, which for iMacs is the LCD display found at the top of the list of ICC profiles under the color tab in system preferences -> displays.

@pratiks_shots 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Todd I've just bought a gigabyte aero 15 oled as it says its xrite pantone certified display should i get sipder x pro or get a calibrator from the xrite? Please help!!!!

@inkedallegiance1227 3 жыл бұрын

I use a 4K tv for my monitor will this still work to calibrate it ? Thanks !

@sarajitsil 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Todd, Excellent video, very informative. For cheap LED monitors, what should be the LED type chosen during calibration, like you had chosen Wide LED for your monitor. I do not have a spec sheet for my 19" Dell basic LED monitor. Thanks in advance

@dominey 3 жыл бұрын

The software should auto-select the most appropriate option automatically, but in case it does not, I'd think the Standard/General LED would be fine.

@sarajitsil 3 жыл бұрын

@@dominey Thanks a bunch for clarifying. Much appreciated.👍

@marslan1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the clear video. Should datacolor always be connected to the pc after calibration has been done, for adjusting monitor light brightness by means of its sensor?

@RodrigoHudson Жыл бұрын

Another question, can I use colorchecker passport 2 with spyder x?

@XSamsaX Ай бұрын

DisplayCAL is way better than the software that the SpyderX comes with. It takes like 10 minutes per display to callibrate, but the end result is so much better imo. Altough getting DisplayCAL to work isn't as easy nowadays, because the developer abandoned the software a whie ago, so you have to rely on workarounds. Still, the end result is way better.

@armusaofficial Жыл бұрын

Hello! I just bought this product recently. How do I adjust the target brightness manually? It seems that the default is 120cd/m2

@NERO-ez1mn Жыл бұрын

is there a way you can export the color calibrated file so you can give it to other users?

@dubumowith7376 Жыл бұрын

What mic are you using here? Sounds great

@dubumowith7376 Жыл бұрын

Nevermind :)

@JamieReynolds89 6 ай бұрын

might be a dumb question but when you calibrate it does it automatically adjust settings in the monitor menu itself or do you have to do that manually?

@madbullapparel 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Todd, can I use the SpyderX Pro to calibrate my Mac Mini M1? Keeping in mind the SoC/graphics all bundled /welded together. Does SpyderX require a separate/dedicated graphics card or the like? Just wondering. Thanks

@dominey 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the latest version of the SpyderX software supports Apple silicon (M1). And no, you don't need a separate / dedicated graphics card. All you really have to do is plug it into a USB port on the Mini and you're good to go.

@madbullapparel 2 жыл бұрын

thank you

@alinbuda 3 жыл бұрын

@Todd, any experience with Apple silicon machines? My i1Profile won't work yet with M1 machines so I've bought the SpyderX your review and I'm not very happy with the result.

@dominey 3 жыл бұрын

I don't own an M1 Mac (yet). I have heard though that neither X-Rite nor Datacolor currently have M1 compatible versions of their software. BenQ also seems to be having issues with their display calibration software too. I'm actually holding off on upgrading to a newer Mac/display until these issues are sorted out.

@alinbuda 3 жыл бұрын

@@dominey SpyderXPro works on my Mac mini M1 (hooked on a Dell 38") but as you mentioned in your video, I would like to see if there is a difference in between the i1Profiler and SpyderX profiles. Just to confirm or destroy my doubts. For now, I'm not 100% sure the profile created is what it should be. Love your content, keep it up :)

@13klecan 3 ай бұрын

love it…calibration = eating broccoli. I have an old calibrator…do i use it…no… i do stupid color changes in both my photos and illustrations in photoshop and illustrator.

@bbartel1978 2 ай бұрын

Do you use 6500k even if you're printing? I thought the person who taught me years ago said to use 5800 but I'm not remembering for sure.

@RodrigoHudson Жыл бұрын

Great video. Congratulations. But what is the difference between Spyder X and Spyder X Pro?

@RodrigoHudson Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, the difference between Spyder X Pro and Elite, please.

@RodrigoHudson Жыл бұрын

I'm a photographer

@Tom888CZE Жыл бұрын

Spyder X Pro - Advanced Monitor Calibration: Fast & easy calibration modes Supports calibration of multiple displays Can adjust for room light changes Shows before & after comparison of display calibration Offers tools to check the quality of your display (Basic) 12 Calibration options (combinations of gamma, white point, and brightness) Spyder X Elite - Expert Monitor Calibration adds extra features: Offers tools to check the quality of your display (Advanced) Unlimited Calibration options (combinations of gamma, white point, and brightness) All-in-one calibration control panel Calibration targets for motion work Soft proofing with print output preview Calibrates digital projectors Defines a studio standard for all displays to be matched (StudioMatch) Precisely tune side-by-side displays

@blender_wiki 9 ай бұрын

Yes your right but the spiderX unfortunately is not a reliable probe for a highend professional calibration.

@aintcappin Жыл бұрын

hello does this works with windows 10? and also does this tool can brick or damage your monitor?

@UKHeritageRailways 11 ай бұрын

Yes to Win 10. If it damaged your monitor it would be pointless would it not? I use SpyderX Pro to calibrate my Eizo grading monitor, having done so for the last 3 years.

@zany1616 2 жыл бұрын

Just finished calibrating my monitor using the Spyder x pro. It made everything much warmer...but when I compare photos that's on my iPhone, the photo on my phone looks more cooler. Now I'm confused, when I edit photos on my desktop should I edit it them to be more warmer, knowing that when it's viewed on a phone it'll be cooler?

@dakid1102 3 ай бұрын

Do you have True Tone on?

@diegosuarez3232 2 ай бұрын

It happened me the same. In fact, I noticed that for example, the reds were very different in my phone than in my calibrated monitor. I don’t understand why. I don’t know if I did something wrong .