On Apr 12, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > 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?
You can set it with most monitor calibration tools. > > >> >> 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. -- 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.
