Thanks all now it works, where I was going wrtong was is was putting it in the profile folder not the Displays folder, thanks for the walk through. By the way the colours on the display are so much better now, thanks again.
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Post Your Screen Calibrations!
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I think I like this one the best so far. It seems more neutral than your first and a bit less darkened than ptsube's.
I've switched to your second profile. It seems to have whiter whites with the same blacks as mine. Thanks for your hard work.
I found a profile on NBR in the apple section that is supposedly calibrated by Spyder. It seems to be the best I've found so far.
Yep im using this one too, very very nice,
now, whilst im on the "screen issues' topic, i was working away in vmware, xp image (my virtualised work laptop) it occured to me how clean the text appeared, then i flick to my osx space and all the font's are blurry, and generally horrid to look at, so i changed the font smoothing down to 4,
ok, the fonts didnt quite look right for where they were in apps but they were sharp and clean. Which leads me to think the issues people are seeing could be some sort of anti-aliasing mishap.
on windows ive always thought font smoothing is ugly and never had it enabled, apparently its to make fonts look better on lcd displays, worse in my opinion,
I know this is stupid, but how do I set this as mine? I don't see how to insert these values.
He posted about how to change it. Essentially download the calibration program and you have option to keep everything the same but adjust the gamma. It still won't help differentiate the dark hues though.
I downloaded Supercal and calibrated my iMac 24". Wow, what a difference it made!
Going to download it to my MacBook tomorrow and calibrate it myself. Prefer 2.2 gamma.
As someone mentioned before, each user's monitor is individual. Some are naturally darker or brighter than others, tint toward different colors, etc. It's best to calibrate it yourself. I was so impressed with Supercal that I'm donating money to the guy that created it.
Tried quite a few. Tried making a lot myself with goal of making video darks better. Here's best effort:
Can someone please post the factory profile for the new macbook. I accidently deleted mine and the calibration utility won't work without it.
I'd use my Timemachine backup, but I deleted it just before I replaced my hard drive which kicked off a new full backup and overwrote everything.
I'd use my Timemachine backup, but I deleted it just before I replaced my hard drive which kicked off a new full backup and overwrote everything.
Yep. That's it. I'm all working again now.
Many thanks.
panzaman: It's in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays and named just like the one 08mxkfx posted. It shows up in the GUI as 'Color LCD'.
Spyder 3 Pro
Here's one created with a Spyder 3 Pro. What a true night-mare to do. Took me about 10 attempts - only a completely dark room worked for me. I HATE that glossy screen
Here's one created with a Spyder 3 Pro. What a true night-mare to do. Took me about 10 attempts - only a completely dark room worked for me. I HATE that glossy screen
No offense meant by this but that seemed pretty obvious to me. I mean that you need a completely dark room to do that with any colorimeter. As soon as it was dark I put the MacBook down, slightly tilted it back to ensure the Spyder deal thingy (official term) was flat and started to calibrate.
Never was a problem on the old MBP - got great results as long as I didn't have any light sources in the back. I prefer calibrating the screen directly in the environment I work.
i agree... i've tried all the calibrations posted in this thread and his is the one my eyes agree with most. thanks PSTube