Monitor Calibration
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- mg33
I"ve been making some monitor adjustments after really noticing the difference in color quality between my 2011 MacBook Pro and my 2007 Dell monitor. Different technologies, I know...
But does anyone have any tips for properly calibrating an external monitor to most closely match the color quality of a laptop screen? I can get photos to sort of look similar, but where I really notice a difference is the menu bars in Safari. I can look at them in each screen, Dell appearance is more greenish gray, and Mac appearance is more light whitish gray.
I've tried messing with the calibration for each one on Expert mode, keep the same photo on both screens, adjusting gamma, etc. and I just can't get them to be as close as I'd like. The MBP screen consistently looks the best.
Oh, and these are both matte screens.
Any tips?
- mg330
I'll add that my MBP has such a nice vivid white color on things that are pure white. My Dell monitor looks like a sort of off-white, slightly grey on the same things that should be pure white.
- boobs0
Macs have that nice color calibration thing in the system preferences. I don't know what the hell Dells have.
- mg330
Yeah, that's what I've been working with, and you can use that to calibrate the external monitor as well (Gamma, white balance, that stuff).
What i think may be affecting it the most is that when connected to an external monitor with a DVI, you can't adjust the Contrast on the monitor. You can only do that in VGA mode, which I'm not going to use.
- pango0
it's almost impossible to calibrate 2 monitors to match with the default feature on any computer.
use this http://www.xrite.com/product_ove…
or this http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_pro…
even than a perfect match is very rare. but closer than judging with your eyes.- <monospaced
- $2,000?!?!?! Are you high???!!!mg33
- ya that's some pro shit.
i say go with ColourMunki or Eye-One if you are low on budget http://www.amazon.co…pango - try get the Munki if you can. The spectrophotometer is it is practically as good as some $1,400 ones.pango
- pango0
^ i really like the ColorMunki. it creates colour profile for your in-house printer as well. Might even work with projectors.
- pango0
Nailed it!
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- akrok0
apple = coated
dell = uncoatedhah.