Comments on: Beginning Mac: Optimizing Your Display’s Color

By: NJ

NJ — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:28:08 +0000

It is essential to sort this if you are in any way serious about design screen/print! I had a desktop PC and my macbook side by side when doing this..it took an hour or so to figure out how to get rid of the awful cold blue tint in every calibration test. Using the standard apple calibrator as seen above what solved it for me was in “expert mode” to set the “target white point” at D50 instead of the default D65, obviously follow the steps before this to suit you!

By: John Merrick

John Merrick — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:35:34 +0000

I work as graphic designer and got an ES-1000 calibrator from EFI. I did the professional calibration and also this one that you described here. Both are quite similar.
I take lot of time to move all the adjustments, from heavy differences to small ones to make my brain get used to those changes. I also put my glasses off, in this case “being almost blind :P” helps you a lot to blur the “apple” and do a better adjustment.
I set my computer to automatically “wake up” one hour before I arrive my Job place so the colour and bright is more stable.
At the end I print my design (in a Digital professional printing) and check the result of calibration, compare both and decide if this works or not. Normally always work fine with the integrated Apple Colour Sync Tool.

…And yes, try to have always the same ambient light around, otherwise it’s impossible to see the same day by day.

By: Richard Earney

Richard Earney — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:15:46 +0000

Find a friend who has a calibration device – if you use the built in ‘by eye’ method it so depends on your quality of vision.

For photographic/retouching work it is next to useless.

By: Adam Stevenson

Adam Stevenson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:28:30 +0000

A lot depends on the ambient light when you do the calibration, too. When I was using my old iBook I had a job where I sat next to a large window. Calibrated on a sunny day everything looked fine. On a cloudy day, or when I took the iBook home, the colors would be off, usually much too cool (blue-green). I set up 3 profiles in the end, “work sunny” “work cloudy” and “home”. In the case of this particular computer, “work cloudy” was essentially the default, “home” was very close to default, “work sunny” was a fairly big change from default.

Something else worth noting, the MacBook I have in my office today is connected to an Acer monitor. By calibrating each screen, I have finally ended up with consistent color across both monitors.

By: frebro

frebro — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:34:18 +0000

Yes, I also get a heavy bluish green tint on my screen after calibrating. I just go with the sRGB.

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By: David

David — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:35:42 +0000

I just did the same thing and the result is heavy toward blue. I immediately set it back to default.

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:37:43 +0000

I’ve gone through that calibration before (on a previous MBP) and got the same results: a much cooler profile than the default, and I prefer the default. I’m curious if others have been put off by noticeable shifts in color temperature.