Channel: Taran Van Hemert

Category: Film & Animation

Tags: adobergbwide gamutcolorcolor managementbt.709rec.709calibrationcolorimetersrgbcolor profile

Description: This is mostly a tutorial, but I do have some questions! Please discuss them here: reddit.com/r/TaranVH/comments/d42kd6 EXPAND FOR NAVIGATION: 1:48 Laying a solid foundation for understanding logical/physical pixel color differences Vocabulary can be found under "Defining our terms," here: docs.google.com/document/d/1PBrmypp_oVfq-XBQFTaBg05lJpg2o0JcROR7DNfR5mU 10:47 Explaining how guide layers work (in After Effects) 13:09 The color picker does NOT ignore guide layers 14:02 Monitor color profiles can be thought of as a type of guide layer! 14:59 And now to introduce an orange .ICM file: github.com/TaranVH/2nd-keyboard/blob/master/INFO_and_PROFILES/COLOR/3008WFP_DVI--Taran_ugly_orange.ICM 15:46 THIS IS WHERE ALL OF YOUR .ICM FILES ARE LOCATED: C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color 16:23 IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH MONITOR COLOR MANAGEMENT AT ALL: Go to (Windows key) → "Color Management" and see if you have a color profile installed. If you do, but you didn't put it there, you should add "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" and make that one the default instead. (Or better yet, use a profile that says "Uncalibrated") 16:52 How to set a specific color profile as your default, in Windows Notice how the colors in Photoshop will now change as soon as you click into it. 21:08 KEY LESSON: Do not take screenshots or screencapture of applications that are color managed! HOW TO ENABLE COLOR MANAGEMENT in various applications: 18:52 Photoshop (It happens automatically) 23:11 After Effects QUESTION 1: In After Effects, why does choosing "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" use my default color profile (in this case, 3008WFP_DVI) instead? 24:26 Premiere 26:07 QUESTION 2: I have no idea why the color management results in Premiere are quite different from PS and AE. Any ideas?? QUESTION 3: (Not shown) How do you enable color management in Davinci Resolve?? 26:30 Explaining why color management is important -- most monitor are oversaturated! 29:00 Getting ready to calibrate the monitor (With CalMAN) Your monitor's menu settings are SEPARATE from what the calibration is going to do! It is only part 1/3 of the calibration! Also, make sure you are using an uncalibrated color profile before you start calibrating!! 32:55 And now to calibrate the monitor! (It does not go well) 34:06 Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to use the calibration software (CalMAN client.) If you need help with that, you'll have to find some other tutorial... QUESTION 4: Do you know of a good video tutorial for CalMAN client calibration? 34:23 Calibration produces and applies a 1D LUT to the screen that only changes the physical pixels. Super important! This is part 2/3 of the calibration. The .ICM file (which alters the logical values) is part 3/3 37:20 So, now we have a proper monitor color profile, which you should get working in all your applications, as I've already shown at 24:00 and 25:21 37:36 THE SCREEN RECORDING PARADOX You have to turn off calibration before you create a Photoshop/Premiere/After Effects/etc tutorial. This way, the audience's colors will be accurate, even though yours will not. 39:36 HOW TO DISABLE COLOR MANAGEMENT in various applications: In Chrome: In the address bar, go to chrome://flags/#force-color-profile and set it to "sRGB" Further reading: reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/930egn/set_force_color_profile_to_srgb_and_google_chrome In Firefox: Type "about:config" into the address bar and press ENTER. search for: gfx.color_management.mode And set it to "2." (Or 0 might work as well, IDK.) Further reading: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/3.5/ICC_color_correction_in_Firefox 41:12 QUESTION 5: How exactly do reference monitors work? Video response! youtu.be/bQIdGsogzkk 41:54 Multi-monitor stuff, idk. 45:41 Premiere's color picker has issues. 46:20 QUESTION 6: My concerns about 24-bit color space not being granular enough 47:56 QUESTION 7: How to fix other troublesome Photoshop color problems 49:46 How color profiles work ON IMAGES (maybe) QUESTION 7: Am I right? If not, plz explain. 52:54 Jeffrey's color blog regex.info/blog/photo-tech/color-spaces-page1 53:44 Your GPU might be showing you partial or "limited" colors (resulting in posterization.) You can change that in the Nvidia Control Panel under "Adjust video color settings" → Advanced → Full (0-255) QUESTION 9: What exactly does that setting do?? --54:10-- Here's my tutorial about "partial" and full video: youtube.com/watch?v=I9d8bg2gnug EXTRA - QUESTION 10: 16:30 What's the difference between monitor calibration and monitor profiling?