Hi everybody, it's Kevin Rayburn. I'm back at the PhotoPXL Studios here in Indie and NAPELIS. Well, we've been having a lot of fun over the last few days making videos in regards to printing and different things you can do with printing big, small and all sorts of cool stuff. And today we're going to cover one of the things that no matter how you print is a must, and that's monitor calibration. And like everything else, I'd like to show you in regards to printing, it's simple. So the first thing you got to do is go by yourself a calibration tool. Now this is the X-Rate color checker display plus. What it's going to do is go out and take a look at the brightness of your monitor and run through all the colors against what real colors are and then make the adjustments so that your screen will give you the most accurate representation of the images that you're working on. And I set my timer to calibrate every three weeks roughly. You can set it sooner or longer depending on how you like it and you'll see how all that's done. So on the screen itself, I've already downloaded the software, the link for the software is on the back of the box. So you just go ahead and download that and install it and you come up with a screen as you see here. And we can display profile, profile of projector or do a scanner. And what we're going to do right off the bat is we're going to profile a display. So the window pops up and we'll go to this window here in a second. But the device that I'm going to be using is this. And it's a little kind of device and it has a cover, a diffusion cover that goes over the sensor. This monitor is the ambient light. You'll see how that's used. And you kind of have a weighted little puck, which as you'll see in a minute hangs over the screen, keeps it in place. So here's what we're going to do is follow the directions. We're going to be doing an iMac and we can decide which way we want to set this up. And we're just going to go GBLED since that's what this is. We're going to go with DC 65 white point. There's a number of different white points you can choose. But just for the sake of this, we're going to go DB 65. Luminance will be 120 and a tone response curve. And you have a few of those custom SRGB, a BT. We're just going to go standard default for this. It's a 2.2 O setting. So it's pretty simple because you use the default stuff that will get you in the ballpark where you need to be. So once you have all that setup, what we're going to do is we're going to hang our puck. So we take the diffuser part off, reach around. It's already plugged into the USB port. And right now you're also seeing the color profile where it is. And we're going to try to always get a good center white point as it shows as we work here. Profile reminder, as I said, I'm going to set it for every three weeks. Click on the button below to begin creating your new profile. We position this so that this is flat against the screen. It's got like a little rubber bumper. So it gives you a little illustration. Sometimes you just have to tilt the screen. And we say, okay. And then hit the next button up in the upper left corner. So it's going to take a few initial measurements. And what it's checking for is screen brightness. And it's going to ask me to adjust the brightness. As you can see in the window over here, up and down until we get the brightness into the middle. So we need to go down and brightness. All right. Now we're going to begin the color response here. And you can see there'll be a lot of different colors. We'll speed it up time that's what I was. So now as you can see, we're at a point where it tells us to take the display, flip the diffuser over. Kind of just set it down on the desk like it does. I mean, there's pictures for everything. Are we saying next? And measurements successfully completed. We just say, okay. And now you can see that the color patches all have diagonals basically showing what the before and the afters were in regards to this profile. Pretty set up. It's that simple at this point. All we need to do is save the profile. And like we said, we hear the profile name iMac. And we're going to go right with the date. And check it every three weeks. And now I say, save profile. Profile has been successfully saved. Click OK to dismiss the style box. And now you can see you've got everything set up using the new profile. The screen is now calibrated. And I give you a bunch of pictures up here so you can look at before and after. So you can see the color space profile itself. You can see the graph with all the different measurements in it. And then you can look at a bunch of different pictures. So I can scan down here and look at pictures. And here's what this picture would look like before and see how bright and over it is. And now you can see how it prints once the monitor is calibrated. The iMac monitors tend to be very, very bright. So as a result, here's after and here's before. So now when we call up images to be working on, our monitor will be much closer if not identical to the prints that we'll be producing. So once you're done all this and you're set and you're happy, where you go. So it doesn't hurt to look at the graphs once and why you can see the linear graphs and how everything went. You can see the color target and where it is. And you can see where this is. And you can also do comparisons of before and afters and so forth. But let's not get into that bottom line is you're all set now, your monitors displayed and profiled. And one way you can check that is go into system preferences, displays, color. And you can see right now we are now using iMac right with the date here as our profile. Once again, thank you very much for popping on by. You can see how easy it is to profile your monitor. If there's nothing else you do, this is one of the most important tools that you can buy to keep your colors straight from your monitor to your output devices. This is Kevin Raver from PhotoPXL. Thanks for visiting. If you've liked this video, please think about subscribing. Also, you can hit the bell button to be notified when we have new videos and we got a lot of them that we're working on. Thank you very much and we'll see you next time.