So now I'm going to open up the color cube 3D LUT workflow
Now that the workflow is loaded
I'm gonna go to the first page
first thing to do is we are going to find our meter and hit find meter
hit search
and we want to make sure
we have blue-green LED selected
thats the type of back light technology that the ColorEdge monitor has also known as GB-R
now we're gonna find our source which is our pattern generator
We're going to select manufacture, EIZO ColorEdge monitor USB, hit connect
once you're connected the monitor will display a flat grey screen
so you really wanna have a separate monitor running CalMAN
when you're doing this process, even if it's just temporary
now we're gonna find our 3D LUT device, which is the EIZO monitor
we will select, EIZO as the manufacture, now there's two options here
some of the EIZO monitors only have 1D LUTs
The model we're calibrating today has a 3D LUT, so you got to make sure you select
ColorEdge monitor 3D LUT as the model, and hit connect
don't be alarmed if the screen is flashing and showing weird things while connecting, it's completely normal
go to next
we will set our targets, there's a couple different ways you can set up one these monitors
if you're using it as a video device, fed from something like a AJA or Blackmagic Device
you would want to keep CalMAN in video mode (16-235)
if your using this as a UI monitor for a computer
then you want to switch this to PC levels, or full levels, which is the way we have it set up today
now since we are setting this up as a UI monitor the standard for computers is sRGB
so instead of using BT 1886 we are going to use sRGB
as our color gamut and our gamma profile
once we have our calibration standards selected, we will go to next
now we are on our pre-calibration page
where we are going to measure what the native response of the monitor is with no LUT applied
now remember this might be pretty bad
because there's no correction happening and we're just seeing what the native response of the panel is
all the other presets in the monitor, like the sRGB and Rec. 709 ones
all those have their own 3D LUTs that are being applied
when we do our pre-calibration capture here
there will be no LUT applied and were are just measuring the native response
don't be alarmed if it's really outside and not close, we'll hit the read series button
This part is going to take just a minute or two, so we'll come back with a complete
now that our pre-calibration captures complete, we will go to the next page
now we're gonna see some red or green dots
they're telling us if our display needs to be calibrated more before we apply the LUT
this particular displayed does not have any controls
beside the backlight control when you're creating a 3D LUY
even though the White DeltaE the is higher than you would normally want
we have no way of correcting that, so the only correction that this monitor has is applying the 3D LUT
as long as your luminance is set correct, and ours is right at 100 nits, so thats fine
we can proceed to actually creating the LUT
we will hit the calibrate LUT button
this page applies only if you have a 1D LUT in your display
now this display is capable of doing a 1D LUT
but you can only do a 1D LUT or a 3D LUT, you can't combine them to do both
so we skip this page if we're creating a 3D LUT for this device
if you connected to it as the 1D LUT device then you would do just this page and not the next page
now we're going to create our 3D LUT, we will hit the AutoCal button
which will bring up to AutoCal dialogue, the EIZO monitors are very linear
and almost always work great with the lightning LUT which is what we're going to be doing today
I'm going to select lightning LUT as the calibration type
we want to make sure that this is full range because we're using this as a UI monitor for computer after this
and now we will hit the OK button which will start the LUT creation process
this process will take about five minutes
so we'll go ahead and come back when it's all completed building the 3d like show you the results
it looks like our lightning LUT just finished, and now we can go to the next page to view the result
so now we're gonna run a read series
this is gonna take just a few dozen readings of color points
we will come back in a minuet or two once all the data is collected
now that the measurements are complete, you can see we have very low DeltaE's
in fact, they are so low that they are almonst not even showing up on our DeltaE 2000 chart
we have an average 0.2, and a ColorChecker DeltaE average of 0.5
and the grayscales the same, 0.2 and 0.5
most color scientists would say anything below one is imperceptible to human vision
so this is excellent calibration
since CalMAN has direct integration with the EIZO ColorEdge monitors, and their 3D LUTs or 1D LUTs
after we created the LUT it was automatically loaded into the monitor
some monitors example being the Flanders Scientific Monitors
need to manually load the LUT using a separate cable
so CalMAN would just write the LUT file our LUT folder
and then you would take that file and move it over to your monitor