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On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we’re hosting a free event at OpenRain HQ with Refocus Phoenix to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you’re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is a must-do process. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We ran a tiny experiment to see if people found our internal profiles valuable and the feedback has been tremendously positive, so it’s time to take it up a notch. The process is..

1. Bring in your monitor. Laptops and personal machines are more than welcome, too, but you’ll need to install the software component of the calibration tool. (I doubt it’ll run on Linux, sorry.)
2. We strap on a hardware colorimeter and run some software. (Takes ~20 minutes, depending on the tweakability of your monitor.)
3. An .icc color profile is generated with which you keep, use and immediately benefit. OpenRain uses and recommends OS X for graphics work, in which we have had no issues with custom .icc files.

There’s no substitute for having a profile created for your specific monitor, and it’s happening here for free in August!

To design out any issues with unattended hardware, we’ll provide pizza, soda and water so you can stay close to your beloved monitor at all times.

OpenRain HQ
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
6:30 – 8:30ish
Food will be hot at 6:30.

Please post any questions to this thread and/or the Refocus Google Group.

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