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Color management
How do I assign profiles to devices?
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Look in
Settings
▸
Color
to add a color profile for your screen.
Why is color management important?
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Color management is important for designers, photographers and artists.
Color profiles
How do I import color profiles?
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Color profiles can be imported by opening them.
What is a color profile?
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A color profile is a simple file that expresses a color space or device response.
What is a color space?
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A color space is a defined range of colors.
Where do I get color profiles?
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Color profiles are provided by vendors and can be generated yourself.
Calibration
Can I share my color profile?
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Sharing color profiles is never a good idea as hardware changes over time.
How do I calibrate my camera?
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Calibrating your camera is important to capture accurate colors.
How do I calibrate my printer?
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Calibrating your printer is important to print accurate colors.
How do I calibrate my scanner?
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Calibrating your scanner is important to capture accurate colors.
How do I calibrate my screen?
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Calibrating your screen is important to display accurate colors.
What color measuring instruments are supported?
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We support a large number of calibration devices.
What’s the difference between calibration and characterization?
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Calibration and characterization are different things entirely.
Which target types are supported?
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Calibration targets are needed to do scanner and camera profiling.
Why do I need to do calibration myself?
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Calibrating is important if you care about the colors you display or print.
Problems
Can I get notified when my color profile is inaccurate?
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You can be notified if your color profile is old and inaccurate.
How do I test if color management is working correctly?
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Use the supplied test profiles to check that your profiles are being applied correctly to your screen.
Missing information for whole-screen color correction?
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Whole-screen color correction modifies all the screen colors on all windows.
Why don’t the default monitor profiles have a calibration expiry?
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Default monitor profiles do not have a calibration date.
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