![]() ![]() This way your monitor white point will be the natural whit point of your room. I suggest holding a white piece of paper up next to your monitor and matching the monitor white point to that. White Point is setting the colour of your ‘white’. ![]() A piece of ‘white’ paper will be yellow or blue depending on the surrounding light conditions. You will notice it dramatically changes what you see on the screen! It is trying to emulate the difference between looking at a piece of paper under different lighting conditions. Step 4 in the setup is called “Target Gamma”. There are 5 or 6 steps to the process, it will take you through them one by one, asking you to compare colours and move sliders. A calibration assistant will appear, choose ‘Expert Mode’ and then Continue. Don’t worry about losing your existing settings because at the end of the process you will be asked for a new name to save the new settings under. To manually calibrate your monitor, select ‘Calibrate’. In my case ‘Cinema Display’ is highlighted because I have an Apple Cinema Display.Ĭlick on the color tab of the displays preference pane.ģ. ![]() Click on the ‘Color’ tab and you will see a list of ‘profiles’ with one of them highlighted in grey. Go to the Apple menu and open the System Preferences, and click on “Displays”Ģ. Here’s how to calibrate your monitor using the built-in Apple calibration tool.ġ. What you see on your monitor is affected by your contrast and brightness settings, the age of your screen, the light in the room you’re working in, so it’s worth calibrating your monitor manually anyway. You can adjust the profile of monitor yourself and this article explains how. In most cases your OS X computer will automatically detect the monitor that is connected to it and use the correct colour profile for that monitor to try to match what you see to the colour that will print. Gloss Photo, plain etc) your Macintosh will know the colour that is being printed by the printer, and will try to match it to the screen.ĭifferent monitors display the same colours slightly differently. Most printers will have a different colour profile for each type of paper you are printing on, so as long as you select the right type of paper (e.g. It’s not failsafe, but it helps.Īpple computers come loaded with printer drivers for most printers, and these printer drivers contain the information that the computer needs to know how the printer will print certain colours. ColorSync tries to match the colour on the screen with the colour that is printed on your printer so that if you choose a particular shade of green on your computer monitor, that same shade of green will be printed on the printer. Built into every Apple Computer is a technology called ColorSync which tries to address this problem. This article gives you some tips on basic monitor colour calibration.Įvery printer uses slightly different inks and so the same ink combinations print out slightly different hues on different printers. This is partly to do with the fact that printing with ink on a piece of paper is a different process to creating colour on a computer monitor, but it is possible to calibrate your monitor so that the colours match up as closely as they can. If you have ever designed a colour document on your computer and then printed it out on your inkjet or laser printer you may have noticed that the colours come out slightly different. ![]()
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