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For advice on how to create workable color profiles for photography and web design on multiple monitors see my previous article.

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On the upside, if you have any monitor calibration hardware at home you can try either of these packages yourself (basiCColor display for two weeks, ICC ColorEyes for one week) for free and decide which you prefer. The website doesn't work much better than the basiCColor site though. It's a pity that we have to take up his time with processing basic license requests but he's a very good guy. Your representative is Jon Meyer of grafixgear who is attentive and personable. German marketing, a big thumbs-down one more time.įortunately for North Americans, you don't have to deal with the nightmare on the river Loisach (headquarters orf basiCColor is Penzach). It's a pity to see such good software so poorly marketed and sold.

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If ColorEyes 3.2 had been any good, basiCColor would have lost a customer due to the upgrade difficulties. Why sell it as a three-license bundle on the front end, if it's only to screw the consumer on the back end? With the inefficient, labor intensive backed involved in trying to do an upgrade (if you lose your password to your user account, the website is not even able to send you a new one - you have to call them), no wonder they need triple license fees. Your three seat license has to be upgraded seat-by-seat. Next, although the package is sold as a bundle on the front end, they try to nab you on the back end on the upgrades. Unfortunately the experience of upgrading a license is a total nightmare. After my horrible experience with ICC's ColorEyes 3.2 while waiting for my upgraded basiCColor license, I'm not sure. There may be good cheaper solutions out there. The hardware and software three license bundle is a stiff 348 euros.

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Under Mac OS X, I can heartily recommend the basiCColor Display software with whatever hardware you already have or in a three license bundle with their display SQUID2.īut keep in mind: color calibration (for no very good reason but historical precedent as a specialised tool in the advertising agencies) is very expensive stuff. (ColorEyes 3.2 also includes a validate but profile results were visibly inadequate so validation is not of much use. Happily basiCColor now includes a very useful profile validator which gives a pretty good indication if you are on the wrong track. Otherwise you could get sent the wrong way. I heartily recommend running them until you get two or three in a row that match one another nearly exactly. Moreover making color profiles is like asking for direction. Speed is important as it usually takes a fair number to get exactly what you want. A single profile takes less than 5 minutes. It even comes with a bunch of useful presets for completely new users (Notebook, Office, Photography, PrePress, Video and Web Design). You set a few parameters and you are off to the races. I found them a little weaker on shadow detail and darks.īasiCColor display is a much easier user experience. Amazingly enough the profiles are still quite good.

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State of the art, for a long time, 2.5.4 has dated badly in terms of profile speed (think ten to fifteen minutes to generate a single profile, with quite a bit of manual intervention). The software package which came with the basiCColor squid was basiCColor Display 2.5.4 originally written by Integrated Color Solutions (no relation to the cleverly named pretenders above) who sold the software and trademarks to German company basiCColor three years ago. The hardware I was using was the basicCColor Squid, an early high-end device which went mid-market a few years ago and has now been superceded by other which allow you to measure ambient lighting when making the profile. I was unable to produce a useable profile on my Apple Cinema Display (somewhere along the line at least one colour was turned into an opposite).

While the web presentation is very good, the software itself is more or less junk.

One of the software packages which is readily available for multiple hardware devices is Integrated Color Corporation's ColorEyes 3.2. Most software works with only one or two hardware devices.