You can apply this preset during image import or editing. Workflow is simple: photograph the SpyderCHECKR, import the image into a supported image editor for basic adjustments, open the image in the SpyderCHECKR software, and export the HSL preset. The SpyderCHECKR targets enable the user to create custom camera calibrations, that compensates for the characteristics of the optics and sensors, giving more accurate color reproduction in edited images. The SpyderChecker software doesn't build them and pollutes controls you can use for other purposes instead: Especially if you wish to make true DCP camera profiles with the target as you can with the ColorChecker Passport. The Spyder product is both a rip off of a better product and a hack. I am interested in feedback on these two tools, and whether there are any advantages of one over the other. I already have the Spyder 5 monitor calibration tool, although it doesn't appear that there is any interaction between this and the SpyderChecker.

I would be using it with LR CC, and several Olympus MFT cameras/lenses. the SpyderChecker 24, which is a bit cheaper, although it has a simpler colour chart. I am considering the Colour Checker Passport vs. Thanks to both of you - good suggestions! I will give the X-Rite Passport a go. The software you get with your X-Rite i1Display Pro is much more like that of the Spyder Elite software and I suggest that you take advantage of being able to manually set the monitor controls. Doing these manually on the monitor itself gives you a better color calibration, gives you the full dynamic range of the monitor, and a longer lasting color calibration - things you just don't get with the Express version of the software. With the Spyder Elite version of the software you get graphical guides for manually setting the monitor's brightness, contrast, and individual R, G, and B settings. I suspect that the majority of your problems with your Datacolor Spyder4Express was the Express software limits. Look into the iDisplay Pro if the Spyder 5 is not working out for you. So my recommendation is to go for X-Rite. So I used the ColorChecker Passport again, after the iDisplay Pro calibration, and I'm finally at peace. The Spyder 4 Express gave me a magenta cast over and over again. After only one attempt, to a target of 6500K, my whites finally look good. I just want something easy to use and gives me results.

I'm not tech savvy when it comes to profiling, ICC, gamuts.that's all Greek to me. Recently, after struggling with a print, I finally decided to buy the X-Rite iDisplay Pro. I also have the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport to create profiles in LR. I had a Spyder Express 3 and 4, and in the years that I've owned it, I could not get my Macbook Pro Retina 15' to look right. I just want to offer another opinion, which may or may not be useful to you.

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