On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Apple themselves recommend no longer using so-called Mac gamma (1.8). > It's generally considered best practice to use 2.2 gamma now for all > workstations and monitors. This comes from a few webinars I've > attended on colour workflows by both the Munki and Spyder folks.
I can accept that best practices is to match other people. How do you set the gamma on an iMac? > > Don't forget to reduce the monitor brightness quite a bit before > calibrating. And I don't think you'll ever get a colour match between > two monitors. I think you need to choose your One Best Monitor For > Editing and stick with that one. Put the Ps & Lr menus on the other > one. > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My new monitor showed up yesterday. The Dell U2311H that I mentioned last >> week. To my pleasant surprise this morning, I discovered that the screen >> would rotate, giving me a vertical display. It took a bit of research, but >> to rotate the external display on a mac, you have to hold option and command >> when clicking on system preferences, then option and command again when >> clicking on "display". >> >> The image on it didn't look wonderful at first, but finding the menu >> option to use mac gamma rather than PC helped, and a quick run with the >> sypder to calibrate it brought it right into shape. Oddly, the sypder is >> giving me slightly different colors on the two displays, but that may be >> because of the way I fudged things to get two color profiles out of the >> software that came with the cheapest sypder. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
