Calibrating the 5K monitor

Im a photographer and just switched from PC to iMac. I print on Fine Art paper using a Epson 3880. My prints are darker than my display. How do I calibrate the monitor? Do Calibrate the monitor? any advise?

In addition to the calibration what color profile are embedded in your image files. If they have the Adobe RGB profile the images will tend to print darker and a bit muddy on inkjet printers. You would want to use the Camera RGB, Generic RGB or the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile.
You can use the ColorSync Utility to compare the profiles to see the differences.

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I am having trouble controlling any aspect of the Apple display's calibration controls. I have two monitors, the new apple 27" and a Samsung. For the samsung, the system preferences allows me to tweak control based on contrast and brightness. For some reason, the apple monitor's system preferences does not allow me to do this. It recognizes the display as an LED Cinema Display and only allows me to control things like color temperature. The display is currently quite dull compared to the samsung and I really need to sync them to do the video editing I'm in the process of working on. Thanks for any suggestions in advance.

stevizzy:
I missed it the first time too -- those commands include a comma (,) and a period (.). Try again and see if it works for you. Worked for me.
zacn:
It looks like the standard setting is minimum contrast. I don't think that you'll get an improvement by increasing the contrast, however. We use an Eye-One Display 2 calibration tool, which might serve your needs. There are also cheaper models out there (Huey).
You might also want to check out the following page for images that would help you compare your two displays:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
Lastly, if you're doing any color-critical work, I'd highly recommend the NEC PA-271W-BK-SV display (the one with the hardware color calibration). Check it out. I paid $1410 at B&H -- you may find the extra cost worth the improvement.
Dean

All Things Being Equal, Is the Apple Display The Best Monitor For A Mac

Let's put price aside for a second....
Is the Apple Display the best monitor to hookup to a MacBook Pro (or any Mac for that matter) because the Apple Display is specifically configured for Macs where other monitors are probably more configured for PCs/Windows? In other words are Apple Displays the best out of the box for your Mac (minimal configuration, maximum clarity and crispness, etc.).
Thanks.

It's a very good sRGB monitor. The 30 is outstanding. I still think the 23 is a little sketchy; it seems prone to an issue where for as much as an hour you can just discern a ghost of a window that has been up for a few hours; and there are still sporadic reports of weird color casts and "sparkling" effects that can make it difficult to focus on fine details when you're working. The 20 is very good unless you're in a bright environment, in which case you might find its backlight does not go up enough. The 20 has a certain rarity value right now; it's about the last really good wide-format monitor in its size class, though there are still plenty of good 20 or 21 inch 1600x1200 displays out there.
Bear in mind that because OS X (including, most importantly, Safari) still thinks everything is sRGB, if you get an extended gamut AdobeRGB monitor like the latest 90-series 26 incher from NEC, all the colors in iApps like iPhoto and Safari will come out looking Day-Glo.
The very best monitors out there -- and here we're talking 24-inch monitors that cost $1,200 and up once you consider tax and/or shipping -- will tend to have things like a polarizing filter on the display itself, HDCP support, dual or even triple computer inputs, and 10 or 12 bit color support that enables profiling within the monitor independently of the graphics card on your computer. Of the above features Apple is particularly overdue on implementing HDCP, which Hollywood in its stupidity has made a requirement for HD movies (why they want to enrich monitor manufacturers rather than themselves I don't know), and the polarizing filter thingy, which further improves the blacks and the viewing angle on IPS panels such as the ones Apple uses in its displays.
Every now and then a cheaper one comes along -- DoubleSight's latest 25.5 inch ("26 inch" in name only) display comes to mind -- that fulfills all those attractive specifications but usually has some deficiency or other. The most common aggravating feature of cheaper displays, and this has shown up in forums on the DoubleSight display, is you can't turn the brightness control down far enough for domestic use without resorting to hardware calibration and/or pulling back on the individual RGB sliders, which makes color accuracy a problem. But for a brightly lit office environment, and if you're OK dealing with the (hopefully temporary) OS X issues with wide gamut, the DoubleSight is an attractive HD option.
Now will someone help me decide which of the ACD 20 or 23 causes less eye strain when dealing with text? Thanks in advance.

Why those gray bars in the waveform monitor ?

Hi,
On previous FCP, the gray bars in the Waveform monitor were visible only when using the Sequence's RGB render settings.
Now, with FCP 5.1.4, if i place, say, a layer with composite mode, the gray bars show even if i work in a "High quality YUV" setting.
Just curious...why that change ?
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I don't know what gray bars you're talking about. If it's the graticule (thin horizontal lines at regular intervals), they're an essential part of a waveform display. Without them you'd have a hard time doing precise calibrations.
I can only assume that if they were gone before and there now for you, somebody fixed a problem. Or you had them turned off before.
If you're talking about some other kind of grey bars, then you'll have to explain what they are.

Which of the two monitors do you recommend for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5: EIZO CG 277 Coloredge o

HI,
Which of the two monitors do you recommend for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5:
EIZO CG 277 Coloredge or NEC PA-272W.
Thanks in advance for your reply.

It depends on where you are. Things are very different in Europe (Italy?) compared to the US situation.
The price difference between comparable NEC/Eizo models in Europe actually goes in Eizo's favor. The regular NEC PA272 in Europe cannot be hardware calibrated (it has a firmware lock) and the comparable offering would be either the NEC Spectraview 272 or the Spectraview Reference 272. These are more expensive than the Eizo CG277.
Note that the European PA272 can be hardware calibrated with the US Spectraview II software - but that software cannot be bought in Europe and has to be imported from the US.
All these displays are top reference quality. As for calibration software, which is a very important part in the equation, my vote goes to Eizo's ColorNavigator (I have a CG246). It is a superb piece of well thought-out software. The US Spectraview II - which I also happen to have - is a very, very close second, but the European Spectraview Profiler software that you get with the EU NEC units isn't all that impressive.
Photoshop supports a 10 bit display pipeline, with either display, as long as you have a video card that also supports it. Lightroom doesn't support it.

Calibrating my iMac monitor...something wrong with my monitor? Not happy

I have had my iMac since late February and have enjoyed using it.
However what thing that is bother me is that words do not appear very sharp when I am browsing the internet, reading email etc. etc. and I am really getting a little frustrated here.
I have tinkered around with the builtin monitor calibrating tool, but don't think I have had much success.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to calibrate my monitor correctly? I am very picky when I am using my computer so sharpness is huge for me. I want it to be clear, easy to read and easy on the eyes.
Right now, I am questioning if I got sold a half-way decent computer with a crappy monitor and I am not happy about it at all.
Anyone help me out?
I much appreciate it.
J.

Hi Jason
For me the *iMac Calibrated* has a greenish/gray tint and lacks any kind of richness, color or depth. Like you I tried and tried to set a profile that I liked and even managed to set a few that weren't to bad.
I found and use an *Epson sRGB* profile that downloaded to my Profile list when I updated my Epson software for Leopard, it's great my displays, prints and scans all match in color and brightness!
Go to the *Display Preferences / Color* and uncheck the box *"Show profiles for this display only"* then try selecting the *Adobe RGB*, *Generic RGB* or the *sRGB IEC61966-2.1* if you have it. I think you will find that they all have a richer look, deeper color and are much easier to look at.
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Calibrating an Mac monitor

I am currently a PC user using a 20" DELL wide screen and calibrate it with a GretagMacbeth 1eye calibrator. All of the calibration is done using the controls on the actual monitor. I am just about to switch to a Mac (probably an Imac) and wonder how the calibration is done using my 1eye calibrator.

I just bought a 20" Apple LCD and used my Eye-One on it. It worked fine. I adjusted the LCD's brightness to my target value and let the Eye-One software do the rest and generate the profile. And then I used the option in the OS X Displays preference to disable the Brightness buttons on the monitor so that the calibration would remain valid - it's too easy to hit those buttons by mistake.

Lightroom/photoshop seem to use the default monitor profile when printing

I had my color workflow setup fine and I have no idea what happened. It's been working as long as I can remember. My monitor is calibrated with an eye-one display 2. When I print, the print colors no longer match the monitor colors. Trying to figure out what is going on, I noticed that if I switch the monitior profile to "Display" the print colors made match the "Display" monitor colors rather than the monitor colors present when its profile is set to the calibrated profile. I get the same behavoir in photoshop and lightroom.
To recap:
1. profile/calibrate the monitor with an eye-one display 2
2. set the monitor profile to the new calibrated profile.
2.5 take a look at the soft proof. everything looks good.
3. make a print using the correct paper profile, lightroom or photoshop managing the color,
4. the print colors don't match the monitor
5. fooling around, set the monitor profile to "Display". Those are the colors that show up on my print.
Any ideas as to what's going on?
The particulars: OSX 10.7.5, Photoshop CS6 13.0.4, Lightroom 4.4
Thanks.

There are lots of colour spaces here!
The image has a colour space. If it's a jpeg it's probably sRGB or Adobe RGB. If it's raw, then it's in the colour space of the camera sensor (which is proprietary, and no use to anyone until it's been rendered by LR, ACR or whatever).
The editing program (LR or Photoshop) has a "working colour space". This is the working space the program does it's image manipulation in. For Photoshop you can choose, for LR it's always ProPhoto RGB (there's no choice). LR and Photoshop internally convert the image from the image's colour space to the working space for editing.
Then the monitor has a colour space. Assuming it's been calibrated and profiled (measured) by a hardware device (Spyder, Colormunki or whatever) then the monitor's colour space is described in the monitor profile.
Assuming the display profile is correctly set (in Windows control panel, color management) to the monitor's profile (which should be done automatically when you calibrate/profile your monitor) then both LR and Photoshop will automatically use the monitor profile when sending image data to the monitor. Both will automatically map (convert) the image from the working color space of the program to the colour space of the monitor. It just happens.
Provided:
The monitor is correctly calibrated and profiled (with a v2 profile if there's a choice, avoid v4 like the plague)
The default profile hasn't subsequently been altered in control panel
then LR will automatically colour manage correctly. There aren't any controls or options in LR to make it not colour manage correctly.
It's much easier to screw up on Photoshop as there are lots of settings you can get wrong in the "Color Settings" panel. So if there's a difference in colour between Lightroom and Photoshop it's virtually always a wrong setting in Photoshop, unless the monitor profile is incorrect.

Calibrating the 20" Display

I have been trying to calibrate my 20" display forever. My art director works on a CRT monitor. My monitor is much more saturated and bright. I can't see the same amount of detail in the white space. (I can't see 2% megenta in the white, but she can). I have been using the Spider 2. It would be great is someone could tell me how exactly to set my monitor settings and the Spider 2 settings. Is is really possible to calibrate these monitors?
I am working on OS X 10.3.9 do I need to upgrade?

look under system preferences -> displays -> color
i recommend using an external device like i1 display 2 for accurate results, since your eyes are really not that reliable.
(unfortunately i have a problem calibrating the new penryn mbp display: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1492487&tstart=0)

Unique Calibrations for Dual Monitors

I am currently using a MacPro1,1 with a single NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT card. I have two monitors attached to the card - an Apple 30" Cinema and a 21" Samsung SyncMaster. I color calibrate my Cinema display with an EYE-One calibration device. I can not calibrate the SyncMaster with my current setup as it only allows one calibration and that applied to both displays on the one card.
I am now looking to upgrade to a new MacPro and although I've spoken to both Apple and AMD I can not get a decisive answer as to whether or not the ATI 4770 and/or the ATI 4870 allow the unique color calibration of each monitor attached to the card.
Any feedback will on this issue will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you rav2o and Denis for your responses - both different and both helpful. rav2o, your response made me realize I should have looked at the problem a little more creatively when I first installed the second monitor and your method should certainly work if the new configuration doesn't allow dual calibration. Denis, your comments indicate my EYE-One may be a little out of date (or at least the software or it isn't capable of handling dual configurations - something to consider when I upgrade my system.

I have a MBPro mid 2013 with 1 Thunderbolt port. Just bought a Mac monitor and want to daisy chain a PC monitor to it. Use a Mini DVI to VGA adapter from MBP to PC monitor. How do I daisy chain the 2 monitors?

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Hall Palm Desert,
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In a multiple monitor situation, how do I get popup windows to open on the same monitor as the parent application is displayed.

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