Calibrate your Monitor for Perfect Picture Color with the Pantone Huey
Posted by: Barry Cleave in All Software, Computer Hardware, Gadgets, tags: Computer Hardware, Gadgets, Independant Review, Monitor Calibration, Screen Color, Software, Utilities, Vista, Windows, Windows XPWhat’s This All About?
The Pantone Huey is a useful piece of kit combined with a software program that allows you to accurately calibrate the color display of your monitor. This calibration means that you will see images and in particular your photos with accurate color rendition. What’s more the Huey and combined software will automatically adjust the display based on the room lighting conditions.
Why Would You Want It?
Accurately setting the colours, contrast and brightness of your monitor is practically impossible with the naked eye. If you want to see digital images and in particular your photographs as they actually are then accurate calibration is a necessity. If you use digital editing software to change or enhance your images then it is very important you work with accurate settings in order to achieve the desired results. This is even more important if you are then going to print the enhanced images.
I bought a Huey about 12 months ago and I am still amazed at how different the true settings are for my monitors compared to those I have set by eye. The results, particularly where I am printing photos to display or send to relatives make the Huey a worthwhile investment.
What Does It Do – The Essentials?
Summary:
- Sets the colors, brightness and contrast for your computer monitor
- Adjusts the display based on changing room lighting
- Allows optimised settings for different uses.
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
- Simple to set up
- Very Easy to Use
- Good Software included
Cons:What’s Not So Good?
- Extra for Dual monitor setups
More About What it Does in Detail:
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August 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm - Edit
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September 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pm - Edit
great gadget!this is perfect for graphic artists so they can easily match their monitor settings with their printers,clients etc as to have uniformity in their color images.
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June 26th, 2009 at 1:08 pm - Edit
want to see digital images and in particular your photographs as they actually are then accurate calibration is a necessity. If you use digital editing software to change or enhance your images then it is very important you work with accurate settings in order to achieve the desired results.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:48 am - Edit
hmm.. the best probable use of this would come when you are looking to print photos. that’s really when a calibration is require cos paper print may vary from what you see on screen with your eye.
Any idea about current selling price?
November 13th, 2009 at 4:17 am - Edit
Over time your monitor goes out of sync. Something like this tool and the software that comes along with it would be very useful for people doing any design work.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 pm - Edit
Does anyone know if these are any good for getting rid of headaches? I get a lot of migraines at the laptop but nothing from my desktop. It must have something to do with the settings of the screen.
Good review, thanks for letting me know which one to go for.