Written by T. Michael Testi
To paraphrase an old Beatles song, "Everyone has something to hide except me and my ColorMunki!" What do I mean? It is the hidden colors that exist in your photo, and because of any number of reasons, don't show up either on your monitor and/or on your printer, because they are not calibrated correctly and together. That is what the ColorMunki can do.
ColorMunki is the latest offering in the profiling and calibration market from X-Rite corporation and it brings some exciting capabilities to the prosumer photographic market as well as to the graphic design community. There are three models of ColorMunki, the ColorMunki Create, the ColorMunki Design, and the ColorMunki Photo.
Just what is a ColorMunki? In the case of the latter two, it is a full circle calibration and profiling product that makes round tripping from your monitor to your printer affordable to non-professional photographer and designer. It runs on Windows 2000, XP Vista with a Pentium IV/Athlon XP or better, or Mac OS X (10.4 or higher) G4 or higher processor, you need a powered USB port, a color monitor with 1024x768 or greater resolution, 16-bit video card (24-bit recommended), 512 MB RAM, and 300 MB of hard-drive space.
There are really two types of ColorMunki. One is geared for Photographers and the other two are targeted to graphic designers and illustrators. The
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Believe it or not, there are still photographers who balk at the idea of stock photography. Even before the days of microstock, when photographers got away with charging $100 for a mere 8×10 print, stock photography was being accused of “ruining the business”. And when microstock hit the scene, there was even more whining and rolling of eyes. There still is, and it never fails to bring a smile to my face.
