Monitor Settings
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- autonoma
Is there a way to get my PC monitor to emulate a Mac monitor (meaning the way it displays colors)?
- ribit0
what is special about an Apple monitor?
- ribit0
or do you mean Macintosh gamma settings?
Photoshop/Image Ready has settings for previewing that...
- autonoma0
Well, in general Macintosh monitors are substantially brighter. The reason I ask is because I just got back from a clients house. I'm building a site for her, and upon viewing the site, it looked REALLY different color-wise on her monitor. I would just like a safe way of previewing the way it'll look before showing her.
The Macintosh RGB preview in Photoshop isn't really cutting it.
- atomica0
This might be a matter of how your monitors setup, and your color profiles in photoshop possibly. "Mac Monitors" don't really display brighter, its all on how you calibrate your own equipment. We've got a bunch of macs and pcs at work, and things look pretty much alike across platforms, because their tweaked for it. Just tweak your settings.
- snowtrooper0
my experience (and i have had a few macs over time), is that monitors look completely different all the time. i have a nw 12" PB hooed up to an external 19" pronitron crt, and the lcd is MUCH brighter, but then my old PB is a little darker than the CRT, and the 15" tibook is about the same as the CRT. an old formac 17" i had was different again.
you just need to check it on as many montitors as humanly possible (not that i really do), and remember that us macusers make up a tiny proportion, so if it looks good enough on a pc, you'll USUALLY be sweet.
and this is the internet after all
- autonoma0
It's so hard to explain all of this stuff to a stubborn client.
- ribit0
and there really isnt such a thing as a 'Mac monitor'..
a Mac user might have an Apple display or a Sony or whatever, and with different display profiles setup for each in the OS...
- monNom0
you can switch to mac gamma (1.8)within the adobe gamma screen calibration thing... it's under help in photoshop I think.