Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) Practice Exam

What process ensures that your monitor displays colors accurately?

1. Calibration

2. Profiling

3. Editing

4. Standardizing

The correct answer is: Calibration

Calibration is the process that ensures your monitor displays colors accurately by adjusting the monitor's settings to match a standard or desired color output. This typically involves using specialized tools, such as a colorimeter or spectrophotometer, that measure the colors displayed on the screen and make necessary adjustments to the brightness, contrast, and color balance settings. This process is crucial for photographers and other visual artists as it guarantees that the colors seen on the monitor closely represent the colors that will be printed or viewed on other devices. It reduces discrepancies between what is seen on-screen and the final output, which is essential for accurate color representation. Profiling, while related, specifically involves creating a color profile that characterizes how a monitor reproduces colors based on the calibration data. Editing refers to making changes to the actual content of images rather than the display settings, and standardizing typically relates to establishing consistent procedures or criteria across processes and is not specific to monitor color accuracy.