X-Rite i1Photo Pro
Don't settle for less than perfect colour!
i1Photo Pro is the next generation colour profiling solution that delivers an entirely new, flexible user defined experience to generate unrivaled colour quality. Accommodating a broad range of proficiencies and expertise, i1Photo Pro provides complete power and control to create the highest quality profiles.
With i1Photo Pro you can quickly and easily create custom profiles for cameras, monitors, digital projectors and RGB printers, ensuring colour accuracy from capture to output. With the new i1Profiler software, which combines the best features of its predecessors i1Match, ProfileMaker and MonacoPROFILER software, users can choose between a 'basic', wizard-driven interface, or an 'advanced' user-driven interface to create high quality, precise, custom colour profiles.
Key Features
- Achieve true colours on each of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors
- Perfect printed colours every time, on any RGB printer
- Intelligent iterative profiling technology for high quality colour results – get optimal highlight and shadow details, more neutral grays and more natural skin tones
- Optimize profile based on any combination of images targeting specific colours, black & white, or flesh tones; PANTONE libraries or captured spot colours – get the colour you desire without editing any profiles
- Capture ambient light to adapt output profile for your gallery, studio or retail environment for a perfect colour match to lighting conditions
- Choose from standard test charts or easily build your own to meet your specific colour and paper size requirements
- Quickly check colour output quality with new ColorChecker Proof visual assessment target
- High-quality projector profiles to accurately project your work on the big screen –confidently show your images to your clients at true to life size and colour
- Profile digital cameras with the introductory ColorChecker Camera Calibration system
- Capture spot colours off virtually any surface – ideal for matching colours from your surroundings or for product photography and corporate colour match needs
- Easily select special colours from libraries with the included PANTONE Colour Manager
Unrivaled Colour Quality
Designed to deliver the highest color quality, i1Profiler incorporates X-Rite's i1Prism engine, unique iterative profiling technology. This smart technology tightly dials into the user's specific printer and paper combination so professional photographers can experience the highest quality colour results.
New User Interface with built in flexibility at all levels
With an all-new user interface, i1Profiler offers an unprecedented level of flexibility to address the needs of a photographer's workflow. i1Profiler seamlessly combines the ease of use of the wizard driven interface found in the basic mode, and the flexibility of the menu driven user interface found in the advanced mode. Whether a novice, expert or somewhere in between, i1Profiler easily adapts to any skill level and workflow needs, while maintaining the ability to produce outstanding profile quality results.
New Workflow Exchange
i1Profiler provides you with the ability to save and reuse assets or preferred settings with drag and drop functionality - you can create future profiles or share those profile creation workflows with others quickly, easily, and efficiently – without having to start from scratch. This exchange functionality also allows you to share palette information and other colour data using X-Rite's Colour Exchange Format (CxF) for the most comprehensive data exchange.
A New Level of Quality Assurance
i1Profiler is designed to give photographers high confidence in their results thanks to the visual and measurement-based quality assurance validation and verification functions that include QA tools for soft proofing, and ColorChecker Proof reference data for visual colour assessment.
ColorChecker Proof
To help users perform a visual colour evaluation of their results using physical standards, i1Photo Pro includes the new ColorChecker Proof, a 24-patch ColorChecker Classic target precut for direct viewing against a printed target. When used in proper lighting conditions, this offers immediate visual verification of profile output results.
If needed, the photographer can utilize i1Photo Pro's unique capabilities to effectively perform adjustments such as profile optimization or rebuild the profile taking into account a specific ambient light measurement.
i1Pro Device
- Industry-standard i1Pro spectrophotometer provides super fast measurements and fluid patch recognition for both emissive (monitors) and reflective (print) profiling.
- Use it to profile your monitors, projectors and RGB printers
- Capture both flash and ambient light, as well as spot colours off virtually any surface
- USB powered
- i1Photo Pro is available in either NoFilter or UVcut, to match your workflow requirements.
i1Profiler Software for Monitor, Projector and Printer
The included i1Profiler software features basic and advanced modes for calibrating and profiling the primary devices in your digital photographic workflow:
Monitor
- Display true colours on each of your LCD, CRT and laptop monitors
- Create profiles for any ambient light condition for optimal viewing of colour critical work
- Unlimited gamma, white point, and luminance settings (also measure other displays or light sources and use as targets)
- Workgroup match utilizing reference profiles to match all monitors
- Gray balance optimization for more neutral and better defined grays, in any lighting condition
- Chromatic adaptation formula for a closer visual match of different monitors (or of different settings on one monitor) with different white points
- Preview before and after results with supplied image or your own
- Monitor Quality Assurance – validate and trend monitor performance
- Profile summary report ideal for post profile analysis
- X-Rite's Automatic Display Calibration (ADC) to automatically control and adjust display hardware settings
- Profile reminder to ensure true and reliable colour over time
Digital Projector
- Display your work just as you intend it to be seen – digital projector profiling for highly accurate projected colour
- Build an accurate on-screen profile in just a few minutes – just as easy as building a monitor profile
- Takes room conditions into consideration when creating profile – projected colors, screen colour and room lighting
- Designed for the creative, non-technical user
- Includes custom beamer holder for hands free use
RGB Printer
- Intelligent iterative profiling technology ensures your output is reproduced accurately from print to print and printer to printer
- i1Prism colour engine delivers unmatched quality for smoothness and shadow detail
- Optimize profiles based on your images for specific colours, black & white, or flesh tones, PANTONE libraries and captured spot colours – get the colour you desire without editing any profiles
- Supports high patch count test charts for the most accurate printer profiles – ideal for fine art printing and proofing
- Choose from standard test charts or easily build your own to meet your specific colour and paper size requirements
- Automatic detection of any installed RGB printer driver
- Visual display of measured data provides instant feedback during measurement process
- Capture true colours with flash and ambient light measurements – easily apply output profiles for your gallery, studio or retail environment's lighting conditions for perfect colour match
- Quickly check colour output quality with new ColorChecker Proof visual assessment target
- Semi-automated scanning method for test charts – measure 300 patches in less than a minute with i1Pro
- Highly sophisticated ruler system enables easy one hand scanning operation, and can be used with or without the backup board – scans materials up to 3mm and folds for easy transport
- Optional i1iO scanning table adds automation to the workflow. Handles any substrates up to 10 mm – photo, fine art rag, textile, poly bag, corrugated and ceramic
ColorChecker Camera Calibration System
With the introductory ColorChecker Classic mini target and ColorChecker Passport Camera Calibration software you'll quickly and easily build custom camera profiles for Adobe® Imaging solutions including Lightroom®, Photoshop®, Photoshop Elements, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Adobe Bridge.
This advanced profiling technology, which has become widely adopted in Raw workflows, provides excellent results with just the small 24-patch ColorChecker Classic target. It produces custom camera profiles that work exceptionally well, even in unusual or artificial light sources. Plus, software auto-detection will locate the target automatically. Whether shooting with just one camera or multiple cameras, photographers can easily establish an accurate colour foundation and maintain control of their colours.
- Camera calibration for Raw shooters enables greater capability to calibrate and correct colour
- Accurate colour gives a consistent foundation for creative interpretation
- Minimize colour differences between cameras and lenses
- Adapt for mixed lighting
- Make colour balance match across different scenes
- Create dual illuminant profiles which takes into account two different light sources to create a single profile, which can be applied to an even wider variety of lighting conditions
PANTONE Colour Manager
i1Photo Pro includes the new PANTONE Colour Manager color palette creation and swatch bridging software. Commercial photographers will especially appreciate this functionality when shooting products or corporate brand identities that demand a specified colour match.
- Automatically updates all PANTONE Colour Libraries - and keeps them up to date
- Uses PANTONE PLUS Colour Bridge values
- Builds palettes of best match PANTONE colours that are auto extracted from your own images
- Enables any library or palette, including palettes extracted from images, to be used in i1Profiler spot color optimization of printer Profiles.
- Builds ICC profile-based device-specific CMYK recipes for any PANTONE Graphics library
- Simulates and helps you visualize spot vs. 4-colour process, including display and print gamut warnings to make it easy to identify any colours that cannot be properly printed on your target output device or properly displayed on your monitor
- Synchronizes spot colour values to design applications
i1Pro Ruler, Accessories and Carry Case
- Every i1Photo Pro ships with an easy to use ruler system making chart measurements extremely fast and easy with just one hand. Use the ruler as a stand-alone or with the included white-surfaced, sturdy, foldable back-up board. Rapid, error-free measurements are a certainty with the i1Pro ruler and the incorporated i1Pro Teflon base for smooth gliding!
- Accessories include a Beamer Holder for hands-free projector profiling, Monitor Holder for accurate monitor profiling, Ambient Light Measurement Head and Spot Colour Positioning Target
- As an added feature, your i1Photo Pro comes complete in a water-resistant, non-abrasive canvas carrying case with shock-absorbing foam padding, making storage of your i1 system a snap
What's Included:
- i1Pro Spectrophotometer Measurement Device
- Ambient Light Measurement Head
- Monitor Holder
- Positioning Target
- Scanning Ruler
- Calibration Plate
- USB Cable
- Backup Board
- i1Profiler v1.x Software for Monitors, RGB Printers & Digital Projectors
- ColorChecker Camera Calibration Software
- Mini ColorChecker Classic Target for Cameras
- ColorChecker Proof Target
- Pantone Colour Manager
- Beamer Holder
- Soft-Sided Storage Case
- Limited Warranty