![]() ![]() Maybe this is like trying to show what an HDTV looks like while watching a regular TV. It’s so hard to show a sample image - but I can tell you for sure that this looks better to my eyes after calibration… and I thought it looked pretty good before calibration! So, if you think it looks good on your uncalibrated screen, imagine how awesome it looks on mine! hehe…. But, again, this doesn’t bother me because I do indeed believe that people’s brains auto-calibrate the colors. The people that are looking at my photos on their monitors are totally uncalibrated! And that is over 99%! That means that I went through all this trouble for people that will be seeing the results with janky colors. There is one other very important consideration. ![]() I don’t print at home, so this is not a concern for me. If you do a lot of printing and home and you want to make sure everything is 100% accurate, then this is probably a very good idea. But, I’m not sure everyone else in the world needs it to make their lives complete. So, this is all a very long way of saying that: Yes, ColorMunki is great and I’m glad I have it. People don’t know how to judge something until they have something very close by for comparison. ![]() The friend doesn’t have to be ugly… just different. This is why, for example, if you are looking to get a date in a public place, you should go with a friend. But, you did not have any basis for comparison beforehand, and you brain was able to auto-adjust. So, after calibration, you can look at a before-and-after - and YES, you can see that it is good NOW and it was bad THEN. If you haven’t seen that bit, you’ll know what I mean. The same thing happens with “white and black” - I did a little crowd-trick experiment with this during my talk at Google. For example, if your red is a little bit off, your brain will compensate and give it a value compared to all the other colors. I think that people’s brains auto-calibrate colors in a scene. I bake the other half with my ability to rationalize almost anything. I’m also extremely sensitive to colors, so you would think that color calibration would really be a HUGE issue for me, but it is not. It’s so hard to say! I am REALLY into colors. Thanks to Brian Matiash who kept on asking me to try this thing, by the way… What are you missing? I had a really strange situation too because one of my 30″ monitors was a Samsung and the other was a Apple Cinemadisplay. I didn’t realize HOW different they were until I used ColorMunki. Now they all actually look the same!Īnd that’s the thing. I calibrated my Mac Pro monitors (I have two 30″ displays) and my Macbook Pro computer. It works on Windows and Mac, and I got mine up and running - fully calibrated in less than 10 minutes. It’s a hardware device that you attach to your screen that calibrates the color for you. Okay, let’s dispense with these stupid analogies, because you can’t say ColorMunki is like sea salt or tabbed browsing. Now my cabinet is full of sea salt, and I am always aware, generally, of when I’m about to run out of sea salt… and it makes me a bit nervous. It was in a nice blue cylinder and a little girl in a raincoat and umbrella was being covered in salt. I remember a simpler time, when there was only one kind of salt. I didn’t know what I was missing! Okay maybe that analogy is horrible because tabbed browsing is really awesome and now you can’t live without it. And maybe that’s not so bad! For example, I remember a simpler life before tabbed browsing. Moreover, it’s very hard to describe the benefits until you actually see them in action.Įssentially, if you don’t have one, then you don’t know what you are missing. It’s really one of those “nice-to-haves”. Now, do you NEED a ColorMunki? I won’t go so far as to say “yes”. I had another one (by another company), but this one is better… I only review stuff I actually use, by the way. I’ve started using it just recently, and I’m impressed. What a crazy name eh? Why would anyone want to put a “ColorMunki” on their screen? See the latest prices on Amazon for the ColorMunki – At last count, it was $449, but this may have dropped. ColorMunki Review Check the Latest Prices! ![]()
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