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[greatbear]

I have a question, directed at those on my list who are graphics professionals or photographers. Do you use a monitor color calibrator, or adjust by eye? If you use a calibrator, what kind do you use? While on my last trip, I had my laptop with me. When I offloaded my pictures to it, I thought I had ruined a large number of them playing with exposure settings. When I got home to my desktop system things looked much better. I still have yet to tweak this new display I got the other day, but it looks good on the old profile.

I am looking for something to help give consistency to the various systems and displays I use. I am also wondering how to best match the screen colors with my printed output. So, I figure I'd turn this into a 'Dear Lazywebs' post and see what you folks have for suggestions. You can even tell me to pound sand if you want.

TIA!

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[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I print at a service bureau and I always take the files there and colour correct them on their monitors, even though we are running exactly the same software and supposedly have the same calibration. It is that specific. As for trying to make Win and Mac machines work alike, good luck.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Nope, not going to try to make the two platforms look alike, I want to gain a bit more understanding why they are so different.

Since I have no Macs, I am trying to level these differences in my own gear more than anything else.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Ah gotcha, then I think theoctothorpe's advice covers it.