Poll -Do you profile your displays?

[piotrus3333]

hello citizen of data driven world,
if You don't mind spending one minute of your valuable time I would be grateful. Brace for advertising content as somebody needs to pay for all this.

poll:
https://strawpoll.com/ajnE18evAnW

Thank you.

[JuhaHo]

"yes, profiling with colorimeter"

[piotrus3333]

"yes, profiling with colorimeter"

are you using this profile in VRay?

[JuhaHo]

I just profile the monitor. Then I have color workflow to make sure, the colors are correct in my image files. I adjust white balance manually for each camera in the scene, by using neutral grey override material on test renderings.

[piotrus3333]

is anybody using this?

[DCHA34]

I don't.
I calibrated my monitors with a Datacolor Spyder X probe, and the resulting ICC profiles are managed by Windows.
In V-Ray and 3DS MAX, I use SRGB.

[Pixelcon]

is anybody using this?

Yes, I am .

[Vizioen]

I used to have an x-rite colorimeter (colormunki), that also measured the rooms brightness, but my god was it an awful experience, my displays were too dark to see anything, don't know if it was correctly applied, all the colors were different in all of my software (default windows image viewer, xnview, irfanview, photoshop, vfb, etc). I also used a different software (displaycal) than the one they provided to test if it was better, but same issues.

I must have done something wrong for sure, but I gave up on calibrating and messing with colorprofiles alltogether. Never had good results and was a constant pain in the ass. So no I don't profile my displays. But if there were a good guide to set this all up, I might give it a new try.

[piotrus3333]

thanks for the input. the more the better: what works, what doesn’t, the painful and the “why bother?”.
maybe it will help to establish some baseline.

[fixeighted]

Whilst I may be incorrect, isn't it in most cases not worth the hassle, unless you know that whoever is viewing the image has the identical or at least a comparable enough setup?
I've not had anyone say that what I give them is in any way egregiously wrong colour-wise, but naturally other people's clients may be more discerning or have a strict I/O for branding consistency, print consistency etc.

That said, I'd agree that if there was simple setup that eliminates guesswork and is a good baseline, then I'd adopt it just to have that as a good 'standard'.

[Vizioen]

Another thing to note is that, even though I had the same monitors (2 x Dell Ultrasharps 27" at the time), the colors were a bit off between them from the start, even with the same settings. After the calibration it was even worse. So multi monitor setups is also a PITA.

[Joelaff]

Calibrate BenQ monitors with Calibrite colorimeter. Then use OCIO for sRGB or rec709 depending on which mode I am using.

[Pixelcon]

thanks for the input. the more the better: what works, what doesn’t, the painful and the “why bother?”.
maybe it will help to establish some baseline.

To expand:
I bought two Eizo monitors that came with the calibrator because I wanted to eliminate as many variables as possible. It seems like a single incorrect setting can throw off your entire color-managment workflow. I use the ICC setting in the VFB because I think that's the right thing to do...I'm not actually 100% sure. As for the rest of my apps, I allow windows to do the rest. It is annoying that snipping tool seems to not be color managed, so doing any copy-pasta work via snipping tool gives me poor looking results.

[piotrus3333]

To expand:
I bought two Eizo monitors that came with the calibrator because I wanted to eliminate as many variables as possible. It seems like a single incorrect setting can throw off your entire color-managment workflow. I use the ICC setting in the VFB because I think that's the right thing to do...I'm not actually 100% sure. As for the rest of my apps, I allow windows to do the rest. It is annoying that snipping tool seems to not be color managed, so doing any copy-pasta work via snipping tool gives me poor looking results.

yes, icc profile in the Display correction on VFB is the textbook (within icc system) way of ensuring VRay looks like photoshops and other icc colour managed apps. old 3dsMax had an option for view lut and currently it is ocio system (which is by design supporting icc display profiles but support for ocio

[piotrus3333]

is missing a lot of features in most of the apps).