Color checker swatch

[50s]

I am about to photograph some posters, but include a color checker thingy in the photo, in an attempt to try to let the user know the actual true colors of the poster. Does anyone know much about doing this?

How would someone seeing the photo determine if the image was accurate? Do they need the exact same brand of color checker to physically compare?

Or is it that the photographer includes the color checker in the photo then calibrates the image on his computer with the digital reference version of the swatch by the same company, thus the website visitor should assume the photo has been calibrated on the website correctly and they just need to make sure their monitor is properly calibrated?


The only example I have of a dealer providing a poster to me with a color checker... how would anyone use it?  

[erik1925]

That's one beautiful and vivid Air France poster. Those colors POP!

Jeff

[MoviePosterBid.com]

you go into your monitor setup - buttons on the monitor, not in windows - and you get a set of color bars. then you adjust the monitor using the pantone color card so that the colors on your screen match the card in your hand

[50s]

you go into your monitor setup - buttons on the monitor, not in windows - and you get a set of color bars. then you adjust the monitor using the pantone color card so that the colors on your screen match the card in your hand

Ok, that calibrates your monitor, so you are saying once the user knows they have a calibrated monitor, the user can then extrapolate the difference from the card in their hand to that on the website to know what the true colors might be? I am sure nearly everybody doesn't have a physical card, so is there any point in showing the card in a photo to the user on a web page?

[Posteroid]

If you use professional retouching programmes such as Photoshop, you can set exact Pantone colours. So you could for example put a square with a precise Pantone colour next to each of the corresponding colors on the swatch and tweak the colours on the photo until they match.

It's a bit of work and would only make sense if you would want to reprint a poster with the exact colour as the original. If you only want to use the photos digitally then you can pretty much forget about it as every consumer monitor is calibrated differently and so the colours look different. In that case just do the colour tweaking by eye.

Armin

[Dr Hackenbush]

Gorgeous travel poster