Pantone huey monitor color calibration system offers but now and gets advantage of low price and great service and save up to 20%. The Pantone Huey Pro combines all the great features of the pantone huey, including incredible ease-of-use, color control and portability, with increased levels of functionality for the professional photographer.

The HueyPro offers increased control over the brightness and contrast of your calibration, with separate menus to select the gamma and white point settings.

Accurate color is essential for anyone involved with digital imaging, and monitor calibration should be as essential as remembering to put your memory card in the camera. Setting up the system is simple once you’ve loaded the software (which takes roughly a minute), dusted off the screen with the ‘Micro-Chamois’ cloth and cleaned it with a wipe (which also helps the huey to stick on). Opening the program takes you step by step through the calibration process. This starts with measuring the ambient lighting. The huey sensor is plugged into the computer’s USB port then placed in its cradle in front of the monitor. Clicking next activates room light measurement and you can track progress via the LEDs. The package includes an installation CD with drivers for both Windows XP and Mac OS, the huey™ colorimeter, desktop cradle, USB extension cable, Klear screen monitor cleaning wipes and a quick start guide.

Follow quick start guide for installation; first clean your screen with the Klear screen wipes. Install the software, this took 19 seconds on my system and requires a system re-boot on completion. Once the computer has restarted then connect the huey to your computer via the USB cable extension cable. Place the Huey on your desk facing you and it reads the ambient room light, once completed you are prompted to attach the huey to your screen.

Once fitted in place the screen rotates through a series of colors, this process takes about 1 minute. Your monitor’s profile is saved and automatically applied as the new default setting. You are prompted to remove the huey and place it back in the cradle in front of your monitor. The huey will continue to read the ambient light and adjust the brightness of the monitor all the time your computer is switched on very clever stuff. There is an adjustable slider in the preferences that gives you the choice of how frequently you want huey to measure the ambient light. You can also select the kind of work you do from; gaming, web browsing and photo editing, graphic design and video editing, to warm low – medium – high contrast and warm low – medium – high contrast. These changes the appearance of the image displayed on your screen, which in my opinion rather defeats the purpose of creating an accurate profile. The Pantone huey measured the monitor as is, so that you have best altered my monitor’s brightness and contrast settings.