No. Just no. Calibration is not about what the user precieves or thinks looks good or if they can tell.the difference or not, its about knowing there is measurable fidelity in your display system.
Sure you can rent a calibration device, but if you’re trying to be “serious” or “up your game” as you say, then you should calibrate once every three months.
If you’re going to blow $1000 on a monitor for photography, you should have a calibration device or the monitor should have one built in. Anything else is a complete waste of money.
What? The profile generated by running is absolutely tied to the hardware that the calibration is run on.
This is a gross over simplification. The calibration process corrects hardware deficiencies with the monitor.
how should I understand to that point ? … If I will calibrate the display with my wife’s mac book pro because a particula calibration device has a software for mac (actually I have no idea how calibration works but I assume that it just somehow interacts with computer and with some “calibration device software” in it …) then the display will be “calibrated” or it will be “calibrated with particular computer” ?
Let’s just put aside if I will buy a calibration device (?probe) or rent it … It’s implicit that I will want to use it time by time because I am buying a display that supports a hardware calibration … In here it is just “indicating” that some “calibration software” is required and that I can even use a third party software … But as I said above I just have a zero real-life experience with this and especially when I use Linux … that’s why I ask … I would not bother asking (or to have any concern in general) if I’d be using Windows or Mac but I am just using Linux and this is the key element in here and reason why I created thread here …
I think you should understand calibration and what you’ll need to do before you spend $1000 on a monitor. What software you’ll need to run will depend on the monitor’s built in calibration routines.
If you don’t care to understand, you can spend a lot less than $1000.
yep, I’ve heard a lot of praise about Radeon and opensource driver … if I could and have a choice I would prefer Radeon but unfortunately laptops with Radeon graphics are like endangered species …
yes, I am asking from the beginning how hardware calibration works, if I can use my mac computer to calibrate the display and then use it with different computer …
I was reading a lot about calibration … as far as I understand the only output from calibration is an .icc profile stored in the file that you can use with specific applications (image processing apps for example) or globally if your operating system supports that … there is debate if calibrating a display from Linux using virtualbox and usb passthrough will work or if just calibrating a display using windows on same computer (dualboot or just a disk switcheroo) and then using Linux will work …
There is one certainty - hardware vendors don’t support Linux so obviously the calibrating software is available typically only for Windows and Mac …
my point is - I am not going to start using other operating system just because of this … I insist on using Linux and opensource … The worst scenario is that I will just not buy display with hw calibration support … I’ve read elsewhere that perhaps some other vendors support “unofficially” Linux … I have no problem to just use windows in vbox if it will work, or just use windows on my hardware (I always remove untouched original disk with oem windows from laptop and insert my own m2.ssd before installing Linux) and calibrate the display … but the point is that I will always require to use my Linux for a regular desktop from where I will be processing my photographs …
Of course, rpmfusion works just fine. Until it doesn’t because it got out of sync with the kernel. With open source drivers (like for Intel or Radeon) no such extra steps are needed.
Hello … I am a huge step closer to new computer … I am already planning a computer … I decided to go with AMD cpu and AMD GPU (RX 7600 XT) and I would love to additionally verify one thing …
I am a bit confused of GPU participation in processing with certain programs that support that … Based on what I have googled out they are supposed to use the GPU via some `opencl’ library … I’ve been googling a lot and found a lot of rants about that opencl for amd doesn’t work properly and others saying that it works instead … So my question is simple (they are actually two questions):
will amd gpu with rx 7600 xt work fully in Linux with that praised AMD driver ?
will opencl work for me with above card (+ its native linux driver) ?
Programs that I use (and that I wanna boost) are
RT - it doesn’t use GPU
DT - it does via opencl ???
GIMP - there’s hidden feature to activate GPU … it sounds very scary … LOL
Kdenlive - no idea how it works there and if it works … a lot of confusing results googled out, no idea if it is using opencl or something else