#Basiccolor display spyder 2 software#

Say you have a wide gamut display and a normal display and you are opening a standard sRGB image in an application like photoshop that understands colour profiles. One thing to note is that a profile will only define the limits of the colour gamut for the display. Just a quick guess was the Latitude E6410 the desaturated one? I use a Dell Latitude E6400 at work and it has to have the worst screen I have ever used. This is far more important if your monitor doesn't have an sRGB gamut.

#Basiccolor display spyder 2 software#

All software needs to have calibration turned on. Short answer: All calibrators come with a little program like that. What the software will assume is that your monitor colour is consistent (something the video card LUT is ensuring). The software you are using is still required to recognise the colour profile to know just how red that value of red is and what it actually should be. This only provides consistency and temperature nothing more. If you have a monitor with hardware lookup table then this is handled by the monitor and the video card output remains as per normal. The video card's output will ensure consistent colour across the tonal range and set your white point to the one you selected. The resident program checks to ensure the correct curve is loaded into the videocard / monitor LUT, as well as ensure the correct profile is set in windows. Unless you're doing something very strange with your calibration (like trying to force a monitor to be sRGB when it's not which is definitely not the right way to go about things), then things run like this: What it does is ensure the correct correction curves are loaded into the video card / monitor LUT assuming it supports hardware lookup tables. The resident program is just a quick management tool and all calibrators come with them. Err I don't think you understand how things work on the whole.