Which Color Profile

[twobs]

Newbie first thread..........

Just got my 24" iMac and wondered what system display color profile to pick -sRGB seems like a good one , but............. Thanks, twobs

 

[ChrisA]

Newbie first thread..........

Just got my 24" iMac and wondered what system display color profile to pick -sRGB seems like a good one , but............. Thanks, twobs

My (older white) 24" imac came with a default profile for the monitor called simply "iMac". I calibrated the display with my Spyder Pro colorimeter and noticed that Apple's default profile was not so bad and was a close but not exact match to the custom profile I made. If you don't have a hardware calibration device I'd stay with the default.

But if you care enough about color to be asking this you really should go out and buy a colorimeter. They've gotten cheap. The new Spyder Express is something like $80 now.

 

[Father Jack]

Spyder has my vote as well .. 🙂

 

[OreoCookie]

I bought a Color Spyder 2 Express from Amazon for something like $65 and couldn't be happier with it. It does what you ask for.

 

[Dembo]

Before you spend either money on a hardware colorimeter or time using the calibration tools build into OS X give SuperCal (http://bergdesign.com/supercal/) a try.

I absolutely love the profiles I generated using it and it is definetly more obvious for my eyes to adjust the SuperCal samples than adjusting Apple's standard images.

 

[nawks]

i vote for spyder as well. 😀