Calibrize for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffNovember 7, 2008

This application does nothing for your other display settings, but it does calibrate the colors of your monitor. Although it works in only three steps, Colorjinn Calibrize has a step-by-step wizard setup with detailed explanations and a rather in-depth help file. Adjusting the contrast, brightness, and gamma and white point settings of our computer monitor was simple using the special images and sliders. You can see your color adjustments in the background as you make them, although you can't save any modifications in the trial. Unfortunately, Colorjinnn Calibrize doesn't provide any other display settings to adjust screen resolution, color quality, or color modes. It also lacks the reporting tools to evaluate color, clarity, and performance we've seen in similar tools. Although a tad pricey in our book, considering what it offers, this program can help any user create an optimal color profile for your monitor with little effort.

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GENERAL

Release: February 5, 2008

Latest update: November 7, 2008

Version: 2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: Windows XP

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Total Downloads: 22,806

Downloads Last Week: 4

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User Reviews

3.6/5

5 User Votes

Very quick and easy way to correct your monitors gamma.
Chris TrianoMarch 14, 2011
Pros
Quick and easy. Great on LCD screens!
Cons
Doesn't always work well with proprietary driver control panels. I disabled my ATI Catalyst Control Center and everything is fine.
Summary
Would highly recommend to anyone who does image editing, but does not have a hardware calibration device.
Doesnt work on Windows 7
Wasn't MeJuly 29, 2010
Pros
This worked really well on my XP machine but not when I upgraded to Windows 7. Now, it wont save the color adjustment
Cons
This worked really well on my XP machine but not when I upgraded to Windows 7. It also occasionally loses your settings
Summary
You need an older OS to run this thing.
not really free...
konastephenOctober 8, 2009
Pros
it works. it's simple (maybe too simple).
Cons
it's not free. it only allows for adjustments by eyeballing and sliding sliders.
Summary
On their website they say it's free. It's not. You can play with it but if you want to save your adjustments you have to pay. That seems dishonest and manipulative to me. Why not just say right up front that it costs $30 and you can try it for free instead of calling it "free"? That pet peeve aside, the real downer is that the interface doesn't allow for adjustments by detailed technical info. If you're like me you want to make adjustments at the pixel level by the numbers and not with some imprecise slider. Sliders are for amateurs and web designers. if you do professional graphic design for high end print on a Windows platform, stop and get a Mac. If you can't afford a Mac or you also happen to have to process huge batches constantly and don't want to bother with Mac's slow and unstable number-crunching then just buy this utility and don't bother with the "free to try" crappola, but hope and pray for a better tool in the near future (and for someone to write about it somewhere).<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Nov 4, 2009<p/>Photographers BEWARE!!! This little program created huge headaches for me with Adobe LR on my big beautiful Vista VAIO. While at first I was relatively pleased with the ability to manhandle the color balance of my monitor to make print ICC profiles match printed proofs to my eye (useful for print work I was doing in ID at the time), when a few weeks later I went to open my LR to begin editing images for my next big job, all the LR previews had disappeared. Wow. Nearly a week of frantic problem solving later, after finally taking the last resort step of massive emergency backup, wiping my hard drive, re-installing my OS from scratch then all my software (which did fix the "mystery" LR problem that no support tech could figure out for me) I foolishly reinstalled this app and BAM!, the problem was back. There was no way to fix it except by the same extreme measure I took in the first place. My rating now: -100%!!! Don't do it. This software is crap. Run! Get away while you still can!!!
Very Simple, Easy to make gamma corrections, and free!
EternalFusionJanuary 26, 2009
Pros
Small file size, easy to follow instructions, makes adjustments permanent without any technical knowledge, nice interface.
Cons
Doesn't tell you what the gamma adjustments are, and doesn't use any software color management options other than for the gamma levels (On my screen the brightness needed to be lowered beyond what the monitor's controls allowed).
Summary
Understandable instructions, simple interface, simple adjustments, and low cost (its free) combine to make Calibrize 2 a great monitor calibration software, but the lack of more detailed tests and calibrations keep it from a perfect 5/5. Definitely a strong and simple calibration software best used for basic or novice monitor calibration.
This is great
colorgeekJuly 24, 2006
Pros
Getting the colors right on a computer is generally very difficult and complicated. But Calibrize is real easy to set up. You can see the changes immediately on your monitor.
Cons
Trying Calibrize is for free. But you need to pay to be able to save your color settings. Calibrize isn't very expensive, but if you buy a Mac, you get a similar tool for free with the operating system. What are you waiting for, Microsoft?
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Developer’s Description

Calibrate your monitor colors and maintain color fidelity.

Calibrize adjusts the colors of your monitor. It gives your system a reliable color profile which maintains color fidelity throughout the system. Calibrize matches results to expectations. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.