Why ColourSpace is the Best Choice for Display Calibration and Colour Management

Display calibration and colour management are essential processes for anyone who works in the film, TV, & broadcast industries, including AV Installers, as well as photographers, videographers, designers, gamers, and home cinema enthusiasts. Accurate calibration ensures that the colours and contrast of the display are accurate, consistent, and optimal for the intended viewing environment and content.

However, not all display calibration and colour management software is created equal, with alternatives to ColourSpace suffering accuracy issues, offering limited capabilities, charging yearly support & maintenance fees, being limited to calibration only, and using restrictive fixed workflows that compromise end results.

Accuracy and Consistency

ColourSpace is the most accurate and consistent display calibration and colour management software available. It uses advanced algorithms and methods to measure, analyse, and correct amy display's colour performance:

  • Dynamic Profiling: ColourSpace can dynamically profile the display's colour behaviour in real time, with the ability to use user-defined patch sets, including unique Focused patch sets, Reduced Gamut, and Sub-Space profiling, without iterative or repetitive measurements. Such capabilities allows for more precise and comprehensive measurement accuracy, especially for near-black and for wide gamut HDR.
  • 3D LUT Generation and Manipulation: ColourSpace can generate and manipulate highly accurate 3D LUTs for display calibration, technical colour conversion, and colour grading. ColourSpace can not only create highly accurate calibration LUTs, but can edit, combine, invert, or convert 3D LUTs with various options and tools found in no alternative calibration system.
  • Calibration Verification: ColourSpace directly generates and verifies colour patches for display measurement and calibration, enabling test and verification of a display's colour performance. ColourSpace can create calibration patches with any colour space or bit depth, verifying the accuracy of the profile measurements by comparing with expected values.
  • Extensive Reporting: ColourSpace has fully customisable Reporting capabilities, enabling users to design reports using pre-built templates as a basis, or creating bespoke layouts from scratch. This is invaluable for documenting results for clients, manufacturers, or quality assurance, ensuring clear, professional communication of calibration outcomes.
Accuracy

Advanced Features

Unlike alternative calibration systems, ColourSpace integrates both calibration and colour management capabilities, offering a more holistic approach to all aspects of colour control:

  • Advanced Calibration: ColourSpace utilises a sophisticated mathematical colour engine for display profiling & calibration, capturing detailed true volumetric data, enabling ColourSpace it to identify and correct non-linearities, RGB crosstalk, gamut errors, and other complex issues throughout the entire colour volume. It performs true single pass profiling without guesswork or iterative re-reads.
  • Open-ended: ColourSpace's flexibility empowers users to tailor calibration to any display or scenario, from professional grading monitors to consumer TVs and home cinema projectors offers. A stark contrast to the rigid, step-by-step processes of competitors.
  • Entire Colour Workflow Management: ColourSpace is designed as a central hub for colour management across entire workflows. It doesn't just calibrate single displays in isolation. It allows for the generation, conversion, manipulation, and application of LUTs for various stages, from on-set monitoring to post-production grading and final mastering. This integrated approach ensures colour consistency across different devices and processes.
  • Unmatched Graphical Visualisation: ColourSpace provides a range of interactive graphs, including true 3D Volumetric, enabling users to accurately interrogate calibration performance. Full control over graph zoom, position, and rotation, with tangent error lines and error colour-coding, enables pinpointing even the most minute of deviations, empowering professionals to fine-tune results with surgical precision.
  • Sub-Spaces: Enabling precise calibration within specific areas of the colour space, Sub-Space, Reduced Gamut Patch Sets, and Focused Patch Sets, overcome calibration issues that are unsurmountable with alternative calibration systems.
  • Active LUT Verification: Allowing pre-calibration checks to ensure accuracy, as well as enabling the identification of issues within a given display or signal path, Active LUT makes ColourSpace the the preferred option for calibration error isolation.
  • Multi-threading: ColourSpace harnesses advanced multi-threading capabilities to provide unrivalled speed, processing multiple calibration data streams simultaneously. This not only accelerates the workflow but also allows profiling, LUT Generation, colour accuracy assessment, and more, to all be performed simultaneously.
  • Flexibility: The ability to create, import, and share custom patch sets means that calibration can be tailored precisely to the display technology or production workflow at hand. Whether working on niche projects or standard setups, users can standardize their approaches, ensuring each calibration is as accurate possible.
  • LUT Management: ColourSpace offers unparalleled control over LUT generation and manipulation, allowing users to achieve precise and accurate results, as well as the ability to develop technical and camera conversion LUTs, as well as creative Look LUTs.
  • Image Sequence Probe: Whether you're tackling virtual set calibration or the complexities of film transfers, the Image Sequence Probe bridges conventional techniques with modern digital workflows, unlocking new levels of flexibility and precision.
  • ACES, ARRI Looks, CDLs, and more: ColourSpace provides essential tools for professionals working with complex colour workflows. It enables accurate colour management within ACES workflows, facilitates the use and creation of ARRI Looks for on-set and post-production work, and can handle import and export of CDLs.
The advanced level of accuracy provided by ColourSpace has lead many of the world's leading broadcast & post-production facilities and display manufacturers to partner with Light Illusion for display calibration & colour management, including BBC, ILM, The Look, Sky, Park Road, ITV, HBO, Warner Bros., Disney, Canon, Konvision, Postium, TVlogic, Flanders Scientific, EIZO, Dolby, SmallHD, Convergent Design, NEC, BenQ, and many more.

Control and Customization

ColourSpace is the most flexible and customizable display calibration and colour management software available. It gives the user full control and freedom over the calibration process and the results:

  • User Interface: ColourSpace has a user interface that is designed to be simple, intuitive, and informative. It allows the user to access and adjust all the features and functions of the software with ease and clarity. It also provides advanced graphs, charts, and indicators that clearly define the display's colour performance and the calibration progress and results.
  • Workflows and Options: ColourSpace has a workflow system that allows the user to create and save custom workflows for different display types, calibration goals, or preferences. Workflows are presets that define the calibration process to be used, such as selecting the display, the measurement device, the colour space, bit depth, etc. ColourSpace also has various options and settings that allow the user to fine-tune the calibration process and the results, such as probe Integration Time, Extra Delay to overcome signal path delays, Drift compensation, Stabilisation, etc.
  • Customisable Languages: ColourSpace is breaking down language barriers, with the ability for the entire GUI to be presented in just about any language, such as 簡體中文, Deutsch, Français, 日本語, Nederlands, Español, 한국어, Italiano, Português, 繁體中文, and more. Rather than confining users to a preset array of languages, ColourSpace provides an editable source language file. This means users can fully customize every interface element.
  • Customisable Reports: ColourSpace can generate and export reports for the display's end calibration. Reports contain the details and statistics of the display's colour performance and the calibration results, such as delta E, gamut coverage, contrast ratio, peak luminance, etc., output as user definable PDFs.
Control & Customisation

Compatibility and Integration

ColourSpace is the most compatible and integrated display calibration and colour management software available. It works with a wide range of displays, measurement devices, and external LUT devices:

  • Displays: ColourSpace can calibrate and manage any type of display, such as LCD, OLED, QD-OLED, LED, QLED, Plasma, Laser Projector, etc. It can also calibrate to any target colour space or standard, such as SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision, HLG, etc.
  • Measurement Devices: ColourSpace is integrated with many type of measurement device, such as spectros, colourimeters, and even cameras. It can work with many brand or model of measurement device, such as Admesy, Calibrite, Klein, Colorimetry Research, Jeti, Xrite, etc.
  • External LUT Devices: ColourSpace can load and apply 3D LUTs to any integrated displays, such as from ASUS, Konvision, FSI, EIZO, LG, Dell, Craltech, etc., as well as to any type of external LUT box or image processor, such as Lumagen Radiance, Blackmagic Design, AJA, Brompton, Megapixel, FSI, etc. It can also generate 3D LUTs in any standard format, such as .cube, .3dl, .lut, etc.

Affordability and Support

ColourSpace is the most affordable and supported display calibration and colour management software available. It has a pricing and licensing system that is fair and reasonable, and a customer support and user community that is helpful and responsive:

  • Pricing and Licensing: ColourSpace has a pricing and licensing system that is based on the features and functions of the software, not on the display type or the measurement device. It offers various versions and editions of the software, such as ColourSpace ZRO, ColourSpace HTL, ColourSpace CAL, ColourSpace PRO, etc. Each version and edition has a different set of features and functions, and a different price and license. The user can choose the version and edition that suits their needs and budget, and upgrade at any time. ColourSpace also offers product lifetime or rental licenses, depending on the user's preference and usage.
  • No Yearly Support or Maintenance Fees: Unlike alternative calibration systems, ColourSpace is a single purchase fee, with no yearly Support or Maintenance fees, with free updates for the life of the product. This lack of ongoing costs makes ColourSpace far cheaper than competitive systems, where costs add up dramatically over the life of the product.
  • Customer Support and User Community: ColourSpace has a customer support and user community that is dedicated and active. It provides various channels and platforms for the user to contact and communicate with the developers or other users of the software, such as email, phone, forum, website, etc. It also provides various resources and materials for the user to learn and improve their skills and knowledge of the software, such as manuals, guides, tutorials, videos, etc.

Future-Proof Architecture

Built on a modern, scalable code base, ColourSpace is designed for unrestricted future development, unlike legacy systems, which suffer development constraints:

  • Future Display Technology: ColourSpace has already taken all new display developments in its stride, and is ready for emerging technologies such multi-primary colour systems.
  • Open Architecture: ColourSpace offers third-parties the ability to interact with ColourSpace, fostering innovative colour management solutions, as seen with the number of third party systems already available for integration with ColourSpace.

Conclusion

ColourSpace is the best choice for display calibration and colour management because it offers the following advantages over its competitors:

  • Accuracy and Consistency
  • Advanced Features
  • Control and Customization
  • Compatibility and Integration
  • Affordability and Support
  • Future-Proof Architecture

ColourSpace is not merely a calibration tool; it's the ultimate in display calibration & colour management. With its unmatched accuracy, immersive calibration visualization, advanced processing, bespoke customisations, and a suite of user-focused features - from multilingual interfaces to innovative calibration workflows - ColourSpace is redefining what professionals & home cinema enthusiasts define as expected calibration capabilities.