Why do you need to color calibrate?
“That’s not what it looked like when I shot it!” If you’ve ever said or thought those words, guess what? You have a color management problem. It’s so important for the images you create to look and feel the way it was when you saw the scene with your own two eyes.
Whether your final product is print or digital, color and tonal range are essential to ensuring your images look the way they did when they were captured.
In this video, photographer Sal Cincotta shows you how easy it is to implement a color management & calibration workflow from in the field to in Lightroom with the SpyderX Elite, Spyder Cube and Spyder Checkr 24.
The results: Spyder Color Checkr 24
See the difference
Left: SOOC | Right: Color calibrated
![Straight out of camera, un-calibrated Straight out of camera, un-calibrated](https://www.behindtheshutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sal-cincotta-datacolor-sooc.jpg)
![](https://www.behindtheshutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sal-cincotta-datacolor-calibrated-with-spyder-color-checkr-24.jpg)
Final edited image
The results: Spyder Cube
See the difference
Left: SOOC | Right: Color calibrated
![Straight out of camera - no adjustments made Straight out of camera - no adjustments made](https://www.behindtheshutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sal-cincotta-datacolor-sooc-2.jpg)
![Image after being corrected in Lightroom by applying the adjustments from the Spyder Cube plate shot Image after being corrected in Lightroom by applying the adjustments from the Spyder Cube plate shot](https://www.behindtheshutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sal-cincotta-datacolor-spyder-cube-corrected.jpg)