But if you do photography professionally or work on any other form of professional visual media, or if you prioritize the sharing of your work digitally or in print, calibrating your display may be essential. If you never share your photos, never print, and don’t use your photography in a professional setting, you don’t need to calibrate your display. Let me start by saying that calibration is not always necessary. The first step in trying to mitigate dramatic differences in photo colors across devices is calibration with a tool like the SpyderX Pro.
With the plethora of devices that we have access to every day, if your primary photo editing display is uncalibrated, it’s likely that your personal photography collection looks slightly different when viewed on your display than when viewed on your phone and different from what your friend would see when you share your photos with them. In this review, we take a look at Datacolor’s SpyderX Pro Colorimeter display calibration tool.ĭisplay calibration is one of those things that’s too often forgotten or ignored in the realm of digital photography.
