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4) Image> Adjustments: Desaturate.ĪT THIS POINT the desaturated image should look completely neutral, 100% gray (no colored tints, colored tones). 3) Press 'M' key (for Marquee Tool) and drag a large selection. 2) Open the Adobe RGB version in Photoshop (use embedded profile). SIMPLE PHOTOSHOP TEST to EVALUATE a monitor profileġ) DOWNLOAD THE PDI reference images now with ProPhoto RGB and Whacked RGB targets!. The good news for Apple OSX users is SL Snow Leopard 10.6 switched Apple monitor default gamma to 2.2 and Lion 10.7 switched its System default space to sRGB this resolves a lot of the calibration issues on the Internet that have plagued all earlier Mac operating systems. If you have one of the wide-gamut or glossy screens that are less compatible with older colorimeters, I've read that the X-Rite ColorMunki is also a great profiling package, though it is pricey compared to the Spyder and eye-one, I recall it also profiles printing papers. I use and recommend the gretagmacbeth eye-one display 2 package, the Spyder series is also a popular monitor calibration package. If you are a bit confused about color management terminology and how computer applications use ICC profiles, please review my BASIC COLOR THEORY. Here are Windows Display Color Calibrator instructions for their software calibration routine.

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a) These days I am setting 2.2 and NATIVE white point because on my 30' Apple Cinema displays, Native white point gives me a slightly warmer skin tone versus a cooler bluish tone.Īlthough Apple gives provides an 'eyeball' Calibrator in System Preferences> Displays> Color: Calibrate and 3rd-party calibrating utilities like SuperCal can profile a pretty good screen (with practice and some talent) I most highly recommend investing in a hardware puck that reads the screen. The short answer for most Windows PC and Apple Mac users still seems to be: 1) Calibrate-profile monitor to 2.2 gamma, d65/6500 kelvin.

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This tutorial is to offer basic general advice about how to get your monitor properly calibrated and profiled to improve both monitor and print accuracy.įIRST, a true monitor 'calibration' balances the RGB 'guns' on a hardware level, and a real hardware calibration happens before the profiling process, so most of will actually only be 'profiling' our monitors to build a custom device-dependent ICC profile for our displays to use with color-managed applications like Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, ACR and Web browsers like Safari and Firefox.

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