Why color accuracy?

[Nick Ger]

Why is there a demand for color accurate displays for proffesionals? 

 

And what useful work do these proffesionals do with these monitor? 

[Kanna]

Colour tune videos 

[Slottr]

Literally any creative work

[Glenwing]

1 minute ago, Nick Ger said:

Why is there a demand for color accurate displays for proffesionals? 

 

And what useful work do these proffesionals do with these monitor? 

Primarily it is so that the colors will look the same when printed out. It is used for work that will be published on paper, such as graphic design for magazine covers, and really all other physical products.

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, Nick Ger said:

Why is there a demand for color accurate displays for proffesionals? 

And what useful work do these proffesionals do with these monitor? 

If you're a photo editor, working on a photo, adjusting the white balance, changing the background to make the sunset the best orange you can, you don't want to print it out and have it look like a mess.

 

Color accuracy is all about showing colors/contrast/brightness/etc. as it should be shown. That way you know on a different monitor, TV, a print, etc. it will look as you intend it to look.

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Nick Ger said:

Why is there a demand for color accurate displays for proffesionals? 

 

And what useful work do these proffesionals do with these monitor? 

Photography. Critical to my work

[Prodigy_Smit]

9 minutes ago, Nick Ger said:

Why is there a demand for color accurate displays for proffesionals? 

 

And what useful work do these proffesionals do with these monitor? 

Well you can't have a customer's photos look perfect on your monitor and then have it look like a unicorn puked on it when they look at it on their phone.

[WereCatf]

9 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Literally any creative work

Well, programming is also creative work, so I think a more precise wording would be "graphical creative work." That said, I agree with the premise.

[CWALD]

Besides people who print images its also a good starting point for it to look ok on any display no mater what direction its inaccuracies are in.

 

If you made a painting in florescent lighting and then displayed it in incandescent lighting it would look terrible but if you painted it in neutral daylight then it would look great in neutral daylight and ok in either florescent or incandescent lighting.

 

Remember the Gold and Blue dress? That was because room lighting and display calibration would trick your eyes into seeing one or the other.

[jaslion]

12 minutes ago, Nick Ger said:

Why is there a demand for color accurate displays for proffesionals? 

 

And what useful work do these proffesionals do with these monitor? 

Imagine you are tasked to make a add that displays a sunset and in your screen it's all the nice oranges, pinks, purples and whatnot you want. You print it out and suddenly everything has a hint of green and blue.

 

Color accuracy is very important if you want to be sure that on all screens, printouts,... will look good. Of course you will have to test the final result out on lesser devices and such too see if not too much detail is lost depending on what it is trying to be but in general you want to make sure what you are making is as correct as possible and that you actually see the colours you are working with compared to a rough approximation a lesser screen would give.

[Radium_Angel]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

programming is also creative work

Incorrect.

Programming is black magic.

 

Or, if you "work" with modern languages, then it's simply voodoo. 

[WereCatf]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Incorrect.

Programming is black magic.

 

Or, if you "work" with modern languages, then it's simply voodoo. 

Sooo.....you're saying I'm a voodoo-priestess?

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Sooo.....you're saying I'm a voodoo-priestess?

If the shoe fits...

 

I was a programmer, back when languages were a bastard to work with. COBOL and Assembly for example. I can summon the Dark Lords with 10 lines of Assembly code and bring down society where a mere shift of 16 bits in COBOL.

[Slottr]

2 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Well, programming is also creative work, so I think a more precise wording would be "graphical creative work." That said, I agree with the premise.

UI/UX development could wiggle its way in there 

[WereCatf]

Just now, Slottr said:

UI/UX development could wiggle its way in there 

Definitely, yes. Especially if one is designing a UI with all the various kinds of vision-impairments in mind -- there are a metric fuckton of those!

[e22big]

I used to work for magazine and back then all of our monitor are low end LCD, not even machine calibrated and guess what? We don't take a lot of graphic work but when we have to we ended up spending hours fixing our print because the red logo on our monitor turn out either brown or orange when printed it out. It's a very frustrated process that choke up the entire workflow, all because our management somehow didn't see the important of at least havign a colour calibration tool in the office (oh you can eyeballs it with paper they said)