Lacie blue eye 2 User Manual

LaCie blue eye 2 User’s Manual

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LaCie blue eye 2

User’s Manual

Table of Contents

Foreword 3

1. Introduction 5

1.1. What The LaCie blue eye 2 Can Do 5

2. The LaCie blue eye 2 6

2.1. Minimum System Requirements 6

2.2. Package Contents 6

3. Color Management 7

3.1. Basic Issues With Monitor Color Rendering 7

3.1.1. Monitors Create Color With The Three Primaries – Red, Green And Blue 7

3.1.2. RGB Values Are Device-Dependent 8

3.1.3. The Consequences Of Device Dependency 9

3.2. Monitor Calibration And Device Profiles 9

3.2.1. Monitor Calibration 10

3.2.2. Device Profiles 11

4. Installing The LaCie blue eye 2 12

4.1. Installing The LaCie blue eye 2 Software 12

4.1.1. Mac Users 12

4.1.2. Windows Users 12

4.2. Connecting The LaCie blue eye vision Colorimeter 13

5. Using Your LaCie blue eye 2 Color Management Tools 14

5.1. Calibrating Your Monitor 14

5.1.1. Setting Target Values 15

5.1.2. Brightness Adjustment 16

5.1.3. Contrast Adjustment 17

5.1.4. White Point Adjustment 18

5.2. Creating A Monitor Profile 19

5.2.1. Saving The Profile 20

5.2.2. Calibration Report 21

5.3. Test And Report 22

6. Contacting Customer Support 23

7. Warranty 25

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Foreword

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FCC Information

Information For Users

Any changes or modifications made to this device which are not expressly approved by LaCie are prohibited and may void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.

General Information Statement

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation of this device is subject to the following two conditions:

1. This device may not cause harmful interference, and

2. This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a commercial installation. This equipment causes, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. There is no guarantee, however, that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and then on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

1. Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

2. Increase the separation between the equipment and the antenna

3. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected

4. Consult the dealer or an experienced TV/radio technician for help

FCC Compliance Statement For United States Users

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

LaCie blue eye 2

Tested To Comply With FCC standards

FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE

LaCie blue eye 2 User’s Manual

Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the authority of the user to operate this equipment. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions;

1. this device may not cause harmful interference, and

2. this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

For Canadian Users

This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil numerique de la classe B est conforme a la norme NMB-003 du Canada.

For European Users

This product conforms to the requirements of EC Directives 73/23/EEC and 89/336/EEC. Declaration of Conformity / Déclaration de Conformité / Erklarung zur einhaltung von Produktnormen:

Sequel Imaging, Inc. 25 Nashua Road, Londonderry, NH 03053-USA Product Name/ Designation / Produktname: Sequel Imaging Model Number / Numéro de modèle / Modelnummer: Digital Control Conforms to the following Product Specifications / Satisfait aux spécificatons produit suivantes / Den folgenden Produktspezifi-kationen enspricht: EMC: EN 60950 / EN 55022:1994 Class B / EN 61000-4-4:1995 / EN 55024:1998 / EN 61000-45:1995 EN 61000-4-2:1995 / EN 61000-4-6:1996 / EN 61000-4-3:1996 / EN 61000-4-11:199

Foreword

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LaCie blue eye 2 User’s Manual

1. Introduction

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1. Introduction

Enter the LaCie blue eye 2 color management solution. The LaCie blue eye vision colorimeter and LaCie blue eye 2 software deliver precise color control for monitors, allowing for calibration of the three red, green and blue gains of the monitor individually, and then creating an ICC profile of the monitor.

These profiles provide a description of the monitor’s individual characteristics, measuring the gamma, white point and luminance. Profiles created with a colorimeter and software, such as those created by the LaCie blue eye 2, are more accurate and help programs like Adobe PhotoShop

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display images properly.

Graphic professionals working in color-managed environments will be able to adjust every monitor in their image chain, allowing them to evaluate images and perform real-time edits with assured accuracy. A properly calibrated and profiled monitor also allows for “soft-proofing,” because the image is verified, which saves time and money. Whether you’re using Macs or PCs, CRTs or TFTs, every monitor will display the images as they were intended.

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1.1. What Your LaCie blue eye 2 Can Do

• Calibrate CRT and TFT display monitors

• Allows you to manage your color with ICC profiles

• Provide precise, accurate color correction

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2. Your LaCie blue eye 2

2.1. Minimum System Requirements

Mac Users

• Mac OS 9.2 or greater or Mac OS10.2.x or greater

• Power PC processor

• 128MB RAM

• 24-bit color display

• USB port

Windows Users

• Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 or XP

• Intel Pentium III or higher compatible processor

• 128MB RAM

• 24-bit color display

• USB port

2. Your LaCie blue eye 2

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2.2. Package Contents

Your LaCie blue eye 2 should include the following:

• LaCie blue eye vision Colorimeter with attachments

• LaCie Color Utilities CD-ROM

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3. Color Management

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3. Color Management

The digital age has brought about many important gains for color-conscious professionals, whether they work in fields such as graphic design, pre-press, video or digital photography. With these improvements, though, new challenges arose. One of those issues confronting professionals is the variability of the reproduction of color from one monitor to another.

Every monitor has its own color characteristics. In order to effectively deal with this variability in monitor “personalities,” it’s important to have a means of controlling, or managing, this difference. The most effective color management solution for monitors involves using a piece of hardware (the LaCie blue eye vision) and software (the LaCie blue eye 2) to adjust and control the color among different monitors.

To implement color management, it is essential to properly calibrate and create custom, individual profiles for all your monitors. Once a monitor has been calibrated and a profile has been created, the profile then communicates with the operating system and the application software to ensure that images are displayed accurately.

This section will help to explain how color is created and how the LaCie blue eye 2 utilizes calibration and profiles to help you implement your color management solution.

3.1. Basic Issues With Monitor Color Rendering

Human perception of color is the result of the addition by our brain of the stimuli received from three types of nerve cells located in our eyes that are sensitive to the red, green and blue areas of the color spectrum. This is why the method used in a computer monitor to reproduce color is for each pixel to be composed of three dots that respectively emit red, green and blue light.

3.1.1. Monitors Create Color With The Three Primaries – Red, Green And Blue

1 pixel = 1 red dot + 1 green dot + 1 blue dot

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3. Color Management

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The intensity of the light emitted by the red, green and blue dot in each pixel is set as a function of three values

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commonly called R,G and B. The R, G and B of a given pixel can be set as any integer value from 0 to 255.

• A pixel set to R=255, G=255, B=0 has its red and green dots emitting at maximum intensity and the blue dot not

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emitting at all. The result is an intense yellow.

• A pixel set to R=128, G=128, B=128 has its three dots emitting red, green and blue lights at a medium intensity. The combined result is that this pixel is perceived as an intermediate gray.

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• A pixel set to R=0, G=0, B=255 has its red dot and its green dot emitting no light and its blue dot emitting blue light at its maximum intensity. The resulting pixel is globally perceived as emitting an intense blue.

3.1.2. RGB Values Are Device-Dependent

As we noted earlier, every monitor has its own individual settings for reproducing the RGB, because monitor manufacturers make very different choices as to the components that are used in their monitors. This leads to very strong differences between the color produced by any given RGB settings on separate monitors.

Besides the different components, there are also several reasons for this variation. On a TFT, for instance, here are some of the most important factors that come into consideration:

• the color filters used to create the dots of each pixel

• the nature of the backlights

• the light transmittance characteristics of the liquid crystal technology used in the display

• the brightness, contrast and other settings used on the monitor

• the age of the monitor

With this in mind, moving back to our example about the RGB setting to produce blue. We know that we’re getting the color blue, but is the color of blue being displayed accurate? One particular monitor could display the blue as akin to sky blue, another as Navy Blue, and another as another shade of blue. And this the case for all colors, not just blue.

Because the color that is actually produced by a given RGB setting is not necessarily the same from one monitor to another, color scientists say that RGB values are device-dependent.

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