Make sure you're looking at the original "Color LCD" profile, your Spyder profile won't have the display code. Also which Spyder do you have?
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Macbook Color Calibration Profiles (Late 2008, Aluminum Unibody)
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Make sure you're looking at the original "Color LCD" profile, your Spyder profile won't have the display code. Also which Spyder do you have?
Hey Rezonat0r,
I'd recommend pulling down the 9C5E panel from your original post - people are just using color profiles from people who had the 9C5E and claiming it as their own.. I too, did the same because I didn't realize someone elses profile had their screen info too.
There's a command you can type out (or cut and paste) into a Terminal window that will report the LCD info straight from the hardware and leaves no room for speculation. I will try to find that command and post it up for you.
As far as I know, there's only two panels being used in the new Aluminum MacBooks.
I'd recommend pulling down the 9C5E panel from your original post - people are just using color profiles from people who had the 9C5E and claiming it as their own.. I too, did the same because I didn't realize someone elses profile had their screen info too.
There's a command you can type out (or cut and paste) into a Terminal window that will report the LCD info straight from the hardware and leaves no room for speculation. I will try to find that command and post it up for you.
As far as I know, there's only two panels being used in the new Aluminum MacBooks.
Thanks, I did this. Two panels is better than three.
Let us know if you find those commands. The four character code we are referring to may be Apple specific, but it would be interesting nonetheless.
This post here has the color profile that I created (3rd attempt) with Spyder2 Pro. I had the 9C89 (LG) display.
Thanks, I'll add this. Just to be sure, is this 2.2 gamma at native white point? I forget if the Spyder2 defaults to native or 6500K color temp.
I dont know.... I tried all the profiles listed on this site, and I am not as happy as I am with the original one... Am I just weird, or is my screen just that good? All other profiles seem to add different tints or brightness that bothers me...
You can't really trust your eyes to make a snap decision, because they have already adapted to the factory default. You have to use a profile for a while and then go back to the original and decide. What you should be looking for are neutral greys, and that can take some experience to determine quickly.
Neutral grays? Explain....
The closest one i almost picked had horrible blacks... But if this is fine for me, why not stick with it? Movies are ok, browsing looks ok... Am I really that weird?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/588431/
the calibration in post 56 is the best so far...for me...
the calibration in post 56 is the best so far...for me...
Neutral grays? Explain....
The closest one i almost picked had horrible blacks... But if this is fine for me, why not stick with it? Movies are ok, browsing looks ok... Am I really that weird?
Neutral greys mean R=G=B. Calibration brings the R, G and B channels in line with each other. From the factory one or more channels is slightly higher or lower than the others. No one says you have to use another profile than the default one Apple provides.
I have a 9C89 display and made this profile with a GretagMacbeth i1 Display (replaced by the i1Display 2, now branded as an X-Rite product after its takeover of GretagMacbeth or whatever its parent company was called).
Hmm, that seems to have not worked. Let's try this again.
Edit: Seems to have worked this time.
rezonat0r:
I have been lurking here for a year since I got my first iPhone, but have never felt that I needed to post until now. I just recently got my new al mac book 2.4 and though I wasn't upset with the screen, I felt it could be better. So lurking here, I saw this thread and read up on your hardware configs for the screen. So I downloaded your calibration profile and it is soo much better! The blacks look black and the colors have a natural tone to them, so I wanted to say
THANK YOU!
I have been lurking here for a year since I got my first iPhone, but have never felt that I needed to post until now. I just recently got my new al mac book 2.4 and though I wasn't upset with the screen, I felt it could be better. So lurking here, I saw this thread and read up on your hardware configs for the screen. So I downloaded your calibration profile and it is soo much better! The blacks look black and the colors have a natural tone to them, so I wanted to say
THANK YOU!
Hi Everyone,
I'm looking for a colour calibration profile for the 9C8A Alu Macbook screen. I don't know much about calibration, but the whites on this computer are WAY off. Everything looks washed out.
I returned a defective unibody MBP, and the screen on that machine was considerably better than this one. I'm actually a little worried - I expected some difference in quality, but this one is substantial. Hopefully it's just a calibration problem, but apparently, no MBs have the 9C8A...?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm looking for a colour calibration profile for the 9C8A Alu Macbook screen. I don't know much about calibration, but the whites on this computer are WAY off. Everything looks washed out.
I returned a defective unibody MBP, and the screen on that machine was considerably better than this one. I'm actually a little worried - I expected some difference in quality, but this one is substantial. Hopefully it's just a calibration problem, but apparently, no MBs have the 9C8A...?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi Everyone,
I'm looking for a colour calibration profile for the 9C8A Alu Macbook screen. I don't know much about calibration, but the whites on this computer are WAY off. Everything looks washed out.
I returned a defective unibody MBP, and the screen on that machine was considerably better than this one. I'm actually a little worried - I expected some difference in quality, but this one is substantial. Hopefully it's just a calibration problem, but apparently, no MBs have the 9C8A...?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Try this one:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6642251/
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6646379#post6646379
Try the one i posted in this thread. I DIDN"T MAKE IT so the credit for that goes to someone else, but I can't remember where i got it from...
best one i've found so far IMO
Try the one i posted in this thread. I DIDN"T MAKE IT so the credit for that goes to someone else, but I can't remember where i got it from...
best one i've found so far IMO
This profile has a very, very strange flaw.
Color-managed applications (like Photoshop) don't display the color red with it.
I'm serious; if I open up Photoshop's color palette when I'm using this profile, values that should look red look orange instead.
And yet it can display red as long as it's not color-managed (for example, using Safari to open an image that doesn't have a color profile attached to it).
I obviously had to stop using it once I realized this since something must be very wrong with it.
For the time being I've gone back to using the default profile, which doesn't look any worse than any of the other profiles anyone's posted on here.
Frankly this display looks awful no matter what profile I use. I hate it.
I agree. I just installed the color profile for my monitor, and it looks really good.
Thanks!
Well, I have another Macbook in the house and this one has the AUO (9C8C) panel instead of the LG. I have added my profile for this one to my original post in this thread. Enjoy!
I set the two up side by side and took some pictures just for fun. The AUO is on the left, LG on the right. These are both post-calibration at maximum brightness in a fairly dark room.
As you can see, the viewing angles (or lack thereof) are almost identical, as evidenced by the symmetry of the off-angle glows in the Earth pics. If anything, it looks to me like the AUO might have a very slight edge (a bit less glow) but the camera picks up on this more than the eye. In terms of contrast, again the AUO might have a slight edge, but this is splitting hairs.
In reality only the camera reveals these possible differences. I make no claims that this was a scientific test.
If you have an AUO panel and are not happy with it, try the profile and you may be pleasantly surprised, as I was. These are both equally solid panels after proper setup.
I set the two up side by side and took some pictures just for fun. The AUO is on the left, LG on the right. These are both post-calibration at maximum brightness in a fairly dark room.
As you can see, the viewing angles (or lack thereof) are almost identical, as evidenced by the symmetry of the off-angle glows in the Earth pics. If anything, it looks to me like the AUO might have a very slight edge (a bit less glow) but the camera picks up on this more than the eye. In terms of contrast, again the AUO might have a slight edge, but this is splitting hairs.
In reality only the camera reveals these possible differences. I make no claims that this was a scientific test.
If you have an AUO panel and are not happy with it, try the profile and you may be pleasantly surprised, as I was. These are both equally solid panels after proper setup.