Freeware Application: Calibrize - Calibrate Your Monitor
Oct.22, 2008 in
Computing
How to match a color sample to a screen color? How to match a screen color to a print? Calibrize adjusts the colors of your monitor in three simple steps. It gives your system a reliable color profile and maintains color fidelity throughout the system. Calibrize matches results to expectations.
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Works quickly, easily and reliably, even if you don’t know the first thing …about screen calibration
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Works for CRT monitors, (flat) LCD monitors and even beamers
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Reads out the color data (EDID) from your monitor
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Produces an ICC monitor profile
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Installs the profile into the appropriate system folder
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Loads a set of adjusted values into the lookup table (LUT) of your video card
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Gives background information about the process
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Cooperates seamlessly with other graphical software
Calibrize can run on any Windows XP or Vista computer. There is no Mac version available.
If the digital photo you just uploaded looks washed out on Flickr compared to in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3’s advanced color profile support isn’t turned on. To enable it, type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar, then click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn’t this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you’ll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you’ve got a reasonably fast machine, it’ll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox’s color profile support.
