Monitor Calibration

Monitor Calibration

Sometimes it becomes obvious that RGB values alone cannot
describe pure colors; if you don’t know what I’m talking
about, connect a still-working decade-old CRT monitor
to your system and see how it looks. You can imagine that a
255,255,255 white would be likely to look blue or yellow.
Assuming your monitor isn’t that far out of whack, thirdparty
color calibration hardware and software can be used
to generate a profi le that is then stored and set as a system
preference. This monitor profi le accomplishes two things:
. Defi nes a color space for compositing unique from
what is properly called monitor color space.
. Offers control over the color appearance of the composition.
Each pixel has not only an RGB value but also an
actual precise and absolute color.

In other words, the color values and how they interrelate
change, as does the method used to display them.