It may be "best practice" but I never bother with best practices other than when they work for me. 2.2 gamma and the 'native white point' that everyone likes nowadays is harsh, contrasty and too blue.
My calibration targets are Luminance 110 cdm^2, 1.8 gamma, 5500K white point. Why? Because when I use those targets, my prints come out indistinguishable from what I see on the display in my normal workroom lighting, which is a close match to average exhibition gallery lighting. I've never heard any complaints that my pictures don't look like they're adjusted properly from web viewers. I look at them using five different computers and displays, only one of which is calibrated, and they're all pretty close. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apple themselves recommend no longer using so-called Mac gamma (1.8). > It's generally considered best practice to use 2.2 gamma now for all > workstations and monitors. This comes from a few webinars I've > attended on colour workflows by both the Munki and Spyder folks. > > Don't forget to reduce the monitor brightness quite a bit before > calibrating. And I don't think you'll ever get a colour match between > two monitors. I think you need to choose your One Best Monitor For > Editing and stick with that one. Put the Ps & Lr menus on the other > one. > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> >> My new monitor showed up yesterday. The Dell U2311H that I mentioned last >> week. To my pleasant surprise this morning, I discovered that the screen >> would rotate, giving me a vertical display. It took a bit of research, but >> to rotate the external display on a mac, you have to hold option and command >> when clicking on system preferences, then option and command again when >> clicking on "display". >> >> The image on it didn't look wonderful at first, but finding the menu >> option to use mac gamma rather than PC helped, and a quick run with the >> sypder to calibrate it brought it right into shape. Oddly, the sypder is >> giving me slightly different colors on the two displays, but that may be >> because of the way I fudged things to get two color profiles out of the >> software that came with the cheapest sypder. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
