From 1261ae9632db798188ec8b7f76d032c690198525 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:45:37 +0100 Subject: bump year + add manpage + makefile: rationale MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index be33336..7a75efd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION crt-calibrator is an interactive tool that guides you through calibrating your CRT monitors. When done, the program will - print colour ramps information that is useful when setting + print gamma-ramp information that is useful when setting the calibrations automatically. If FILE is specified, this information is stored to that the file named FILE. @@ -20,6 +20,21 @@ NOTES used to calibrate monitors with nice gamma-curves, such as CRT monitors. Not monitors with sigmoid-curves. +RATIONALE + Few users have calibration hardware, and CRT monitors can + be sufficiently calibrated manually without them. However, + before crt-calibrator the best way to calibrator CRT monitors + was to have specialised test images, with colour bars and + samples. But this requires expertise, the common user will + know how to contruct these images or the best procedure for + applying the corrections. And it is tedious if you do not + find any interactive tool for change changing the settings. + The alternative why was to use test pictures that relied on + you deciding what looked most realistic rather than the + image itself telling you. But that's not all, to my knowledge, + this is actually the first program that runs outside a + display server. + SEE ALSO analyse-gamma(1), blueshift(1) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2