Being unable to convince my wife to fork out for a decent hardware calibrator, I've settled for doing a careful software calibration of my screens.
People here and elsewhere keep recommending Supercal as a better solution than the built-in one. Indeed, based on its methodology, it certainly seems like it would work better. Except for me half the time it doesn't.
On my ancient 17" Apple LCD Supercal produced significantly better results than the Apple calibrator--much richer and livelier colors. Heck, this screen actually looks *nice* now.
However, on my 1st-gen Intel MBP 17" the Supercal profile looks way too blue, and also a little in the magenta direction. The gamma curves might be a little more even, but the color cast makes it unpleasant. Similarly, on my new 27" iMac, the Supercal profile is also too cool. Not as obviously off as the MBP--it could just be a matter of taste in terms of temperature--but it just doesn't look as nice as the default one.
Am I doing something wrong with Supercal? Has anybody else seen weird results like this?
People here and elsewhere keep recommending Supercal as a better solution than the built-in one. Indeed, based on its methodology, it certainly seems like it would work better. Except for me half the time it doesn't.
On my ancient 17" Apple LCD Supercal produced significantly better results than the Apple calibrator--much richer and livelier colors. Heck, this screen actually looks *nice* now.
However, on my 1st-gen Intel MBP 17" the Supercal profile looks way too blue, and also a little in the magenta direction. The gamma curves might be a little more even, but the color cast makes it unpleasant. Similarly, on my new 27" iMac, the Supercal profile is also too cool. Not as obviously off as the MBP--it could just be a matter of taste in terms of temperature--but it just doesn't look as nice as the default one.
Am I doing something wrong with Supercal? Has anybody else seen weird results like this?