Color/Display setting 17" iMac

I am not at the Mac at this time so I forget some steps.
The colors on the monitor were tending to be dark and the display of a spec'd PMS color definitely did not match, so I went into System Preferences, chose "Display" and then chose the color settings option. I clicked the option for advanced color settings. WHY did I do this? Duh!
After I went through all the "iMac" color settings, I saved the new calibrations. Somewhere along the line I came to screen display size (?). I clicked 1024 x 840 (like I said, I'm not at the iMac right now) or something close. WOW! I got everything BIG. It filled the screen all right! This was not what I wanted...I wanted to go back to the regular look. I returned to the Display, chose a lower size screen setting and the display was smaller than the area I have available.
I kept the larger setting because I don't know what else to do. When I read emails, the display is so large that my messages are down in the lower right off the screen.
All the icons on my desktop are wierd as well. The menu items are huge. Everything is huge. There was no "middle-size" setting for display. Where do I find Default settings? I've tried everything.

Use a hardware calibrator and while you're waiting for it to arrive, calibrate using the built in calibration in the system preferences for the display. Make sure you turn on the advanced options when you hit calibrate and calibrate to gamma 2.2 and a 6500K white point. These are not Apple's defaults but are essential. If you do at least that you'll get very good correspondence between print and monitor. A hardware calibrator will get you there absolutely. NEVER choose a working space profile such as adobeRGB or sRGB as your monitor profile. Monitors almost never correspond precisely to either of these and on a Mac, there is no excuse to not use at least the free built-in calibration. Apple's monitors (which you are using if it allows ColorLCD) are never near adobeRGB, they are usually closer to sRGB.

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