Color Correction Using Spyder Checkr Photo

This has been SO helpful. I never understood how I was supposed to use the color part of that card or how to create and use the LR profile. Thanks so much for sharing this and making it easy to understand. Can’t wait to start using it!

This is the best video I've watched so far on using a color checker. I haven't watched them all but you did a great job going into detail on how to use it. The key is consistency across all of your pictures.

Dang! Sal, you're reading minds now! I've been looking for a good video showing the proper way to use a color checker. Spot on. You Da Man!

Hands down the best explanation ive found for my workflow. Thank you so, so much!

Spot on. Nice clean production, Sal, enjoyed it. I never shoot without a checker!

Awesome tutorial Sal! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks so much for this video, Sal!! You make it easy to understand the basics of how to EFFECTIVELY use the color checker tool. I used to have one and used it a lot at weddings, but I could still never get the colors right afterwards in post. Now I realize why. I was not using the images with it in them in the way you explain in the video. I will be picking up a new color checker (never replaced the old one after losing it at a wedding years ago) now that I finally understand how to effectively use it. Thank you again for explaining and showing us how to use it effectively!!!!! 🙏

Watched this on a for photography calibrated monitor. I can see all the slight shifts in color & saturation you mention. Even thow I don't do the wedding/model thing, I appreciate learning from you mentioning the lighting being different from the back of the church to up by the alter. Good deal.

Holy shit. I have STRUGGLED with my color correction pre and post ALL THE TIME! Thought maybe i was just dumb and never really for the photography world. By 1/2 of watching this video i saved it and by 3/4 I subscribed! THANK YOU isnt even enough!

I was just looking into getting a color checker but needed some basic understanding on how to apply it to my photo sessions. You answered all of my questions , thank you.

I absolutely agree that it is very important to have accurate colors in a photo. As a wedding and portrait photographer, I also use a color checker and it is truly my most important and favorite piece of equipment. I use X-rite Color checker passport 2.

Sal you are the man!! Life is good 👍🏾! Thank you for sharing this!!

I can see the changes on her skin and my monitor is color corrected too. Thanks for letting me know the difference in the new color card as I have the older one.

Sal - thank you so much for these inspiring videos ! I get it - and will use my colorcheckker more now - definitely

Very helpful - thank you for making this video.

I see it! Looks amazing. I’m sold on getting the Spyder Checkr!

This was an amazing video. I have never know how to use the color checker. I have the old one but was not using it like this. Very informative! My editing is terrible but and this is the first step.

Wow. Thank you.

Sal Thank you!! Great video!! Happy Thanksgiving!

I can't wait to see your spyder video. Because from my experience, I used to use the calibration every time. I would calibrate and then I would edit the images to look the way I want them to look. But then when people viewed my images on their phone or computer (or heck, when I'm looking on my own computer), it looked so wrong. So when I calibrate, I generate an ICS profile. I have to make sure this ICS profile is loaded so my image looks the way I edited. But of course, no one else has this ICS profile so the edited image looks wrong everywhere. Since I had to load this ICS profile all the time (Datacolor said it was a Windows 10 issue; I'm on Windows 11 now so I don't know if the situation was fixed) and since no one else has calibrated displays, I ended up not calibrating at all. If you don't calibrate, then you and everyone is on the standard Windows ICS profile. So when I edit, even though no one is truly calibrated, we all see the image fairly similarly. I don't know if I was doing something wrong but after talking to Datacolor, it seemed like there was nothing I could do.