More often than not, our monitors are not calibrated properly. If you're a web designer, digital photographer, or graphic professional, it is especially important to have properly calibrated monitor. You don't want to spend hours choosing the perfect subtle color scheme only to see a mess coming out of a printer.

If your monitor brightness is set to low, you might compensate that by brightening the photo with photo editing software. After doing that, the photo might look just perfect, but when you print it out, it will look too bright. To see images the way they were intended to be seen, your monitor needs to be calibrated. Calibrating your monitor provides a screen display that simulates what you would see on paper.

How can you calibrate your monitor?

The well-balanced monitor does not come out of a box. It takes some adjustment to get it right. All you need is a little gadget called monitor calibrator.

One of the best and affordable is Spyder3Pro.

This little gadget calibrates your monitor in just 2.5 minutes.

What I really like is that Spyder3Pro can monitor ambient light. This means that if light conditions in the room change, this monitor calibrator will take care of that and recalibrate my monitor. Spyder3 automatically measures the ambient light within a room for a new level of precision calibration. That way I can always have a properly calibrated monitor when I want to edit my images.

If you're serious about photography or graphic design, Spyder 3 Pro is just something you have to buy. Once you use it - the color you see on the screen is the color you see on your print.

It is inexpensive but very easy to use. The software walks you through the set up and calibration process and it even has more advanced features for graphics pros who want to tweak and peak their displays.

You can check all the features here.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/525535-REG/Datacolor_S3P100_Spyder3Pro_Display_Calibration_System.html#features