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The first step in managing color is to calibrate and profile your monitor to ensure that it displays color accurately and consistently. Until now, that’s been a headache for amateur photographers and other non-professionals who want to avoid the cost and learning curve associated with high-end calibration systems. Now, along comes Pantone’s huey , a small, portable USB device designed for consumers that takes the pain and expense out of calibrating and profiling both LCD and CRT monitors.
During calibration, huey measures the ambient room light, determines the way your monitor displays color, and adjusts the monitor to standard settings—all in a matter of minutes. Optimize these adjustments for the tasks you perform most often, choosing from presets like Web Browsing and Photo Editing, Graphic Design and Video Editing, or Gaming. These settings adjust your monitor’s white point and gamma behind the scenes. For example, the Web Browsing and Photo Editing preset automatically sets the white point to 6500° Kelvin and the gamma to 2.2.
Key features:
* Corrects monitor color
* Designed for snapshooters and hobbyists
* Colorimeter is easy to set up
* Softare holds your hand through process
* Adjusts for different uses–image editing, gaming, etc.
* Automatically adjusts for changes in room light
Review By Dpnow
Pantone can’t really escape from the comment that the huey has a rather gimmicky side to it. But that’s forgivable if it does its job adequately and, on the whole, I can happily report that it does. I tested the huey on no less than eight monitors; seven LCDs and one CRT and on all but one, which happened to be the lowest specification LCD, a good result was obtained. Even though I couldn’t satisfactorily use the contrast and brightness wizard for the CRT monitor calibration process, the result using default settings was still very acceptable. We did notice an occasional aborted calibration for no apparent reason, requiring an exit from the software and a re-start from the beginning.
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Review By Letsgodigital
To date, advanced electronic monitor calibrators have cost several hundred dollars, putting them out of reach for semi-professionals and hobbyists,” said Doug Meisner, senior product manager for Corel. “huey offers high-quality performance at a truly affordable price, and is a perfect companion to Paint Shop Pro, which for years has been the renowned choice for photographers who want a professional-level tool at a non-professional price. We have tested huey with Paint Shop Pro X and it works seamlessly with PSP’s color management features to let users take their passion for photography to the next level.”
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Review By Pcworld
Setup is simple through the basic software, which offers few adjustable settings. You change color temperature and contrast by selecting one of nine presets, several of which are optimized for specific situations such as photo viewing and gaming. Just stick the Huey sensor on your screen, and help the software along with an occasional mouse click as it flashes a series of color and gray patches on screen for the sensor to read.
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Review By Northlight-images
The Huey is a small 10cm long device that comes with a stand, USB extension lead, software CD and pack of screen cleaner.
The picture shows the device at almost life size.
The sensor clips into the stand, and is used in this configuration to detect changes in room lighting.
One feature not mentioned in the (brief) literature supplied with the device, is that the base can hold the cable and USB plug underneath.
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Review By Adorama
HUEY consists of a stick-like thingie, called a Colorimeter, which attaches to your computer monitor (LCD or CRT) via eight little suction cups; a holder for the Colorimeter; and a CD with the accompanying software. The unit connects to the computer via a USB cable, and will calibrate an LCD or CRT monitor, and will work on both desktop and laptop computers. There is also a monitor cleaning wipe cloth; if there is dust on the monitor, the Colorimeter might not attach properly.
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Posted on November 25th, 2006 Written by: PCMAN
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