Calibrating Tablets

[Chappers]

If you have an X-Rite device there is now an App ( free) that allows you to calibrate your tablet , either iOS or Android as well as smart phone

It's available from the App Store or Google Play.

You will need to download the latest XRD update from the X-Rite web site and have the latest software on your computer.

It calibrates by communicating with the X-Rite software on your computer over a wireless network and takes about 3 mins to Calibrate

here's the link

http://www.xrite.com/colortrue

Full details in the video in that link

 

[johnnypanic]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm surprised it's taken so long to implement this solution.

 

[Musicman]

Unless they've found a way round it, I was under the impression this only worked with images viewed with XRite's own App as there's no equivalent of ColorSync to allow colour calibration everywhere on IOS.

 

[johnnypanic]

Unless they've found a way round it, I was under the impression this only worked with images viewed with XRite's own App as there's no equivalent of ColorSync to allow colour calibration everywhere on IOS.

They state that other apps, if colortrue compatible, will work. I suppose they will be looking for companies to adopt their colortrue solution.

 

[neil_g]

Unless they've found a way round it, I was under the impression this only worked with images viewed with XRite's own App as there's no equivalent of ColorSync to allow colour calibration everywhere on IOS.

was going to say, there does not appear to be anywhere in ios natively that lets you set a colour profile.

 

[Musicman]

They state that other apps, if colortrue compatible, will work. I suppose they will be looking for companies to adopt their colortrue solution.

I wouldn't hold your breath, if this is correct

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=88179.msg719642#msg719642

This was just posted to the ICC users group and I felt it OK to share (credits to Jan Peter Homann):

http://www.xrite.com/colortrueSDK

Graeme Gill had a short look how moniotr profiles are handled inside
this environment and stated on the OpenICC mailinglist as following:

***
X-Rite's profiles are in a folder called "iccprofiles" and
are called profileData.xml, but seem to be neither ICC profiles
nor (ICC) XML files.

So balkanized color management on handheld devices
- - here we come!
***

If the finding of Graeme Gill is correct, I would currently not
recommend software developers to support the X-Rite ColorTRUE SDK.

An SDK for bringing ICC profile support to Android and iOS which uses
an vendor specific format for monitor profiles instead of the
ICC-format does make no sense in my eyes.

By the way, Android and iOS devices try both to match sRGB in their
display color rendering. It would not a big deal to implement some
basic ICC support on system level and use sRGB as default monitor
profile.

Applications which need the highest graphics performance could just
bypass ICC support but must contain only sRGB images and graphics as
today.

Colorcritical applications could use an ICC infrastructure incl. the
default sRGB profile.

High-end profiling solutions could exchange the default sRGB profile
with an individual profile which could be used in every ICC aware
application.

Any comments ?

Regards
Jan-Peter

 

[Chappers]

Apple probably thought that no one would want to calibrate an iPad. Which is I think a reasonable assumption. Hence the inability to store ICC profiles in a location for access. Also Apple have this sand boxing arrangement which doesn't really allow apps to talk to each other. A good security arrangement. OK this app isn't ideal and is a workaround. BUT it does give a very close match with my calibrated iMac which was not calibrated with X-Rite software ( CEDP). The result is a bit warmer and slightly lower in contrast, than the native "uncalibrated " iPad. Would like to see the ability to add output profiles for soft proofing, just to see how accurate it is

I wouldn't use the iPad to colour correct images anyway,plus the app is free. If you don't like it just delete it

 

[Pookeyhead]

Unless they've found a way round it, I was under the impression this only worked with images viewed with XRite's own App as there's no equivalent of ColorSync to allow colour calibration everywhere on IOS.

This. ^^^

All pointless.. no native colour management in iOS, or any other tablet OS.... except....

MS Surface would be a different matter however. You wouldn't even need an app.. you'd just calibrate it like any other PC.