I have a 17in Macbook pro and in comparison to my apple cinema display (which is very accurate to prints) the colors seems just a little but off. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for something I can use to calibrate the display on my laptop. I have heard that laptop displays can be a pain to calibrate but I'm hoping that someone has had some experience with this before.
I don't own one, but I've profiled them before. Note: MBP's are not known for their color accuracy.
Try setting it at 6500K (turn it all the way up) before you begin. I don't know what profiling software you have, but I've used Color Eyes and it worked "OK", but the screen won't produce monitor like results. According to the professional printers I know, hard ware devices, in order of best performance were Monaco Optics XR (or something like that), Spyder2 (which may be bested by Spyder3), followed by the over praised and last place finisher the XRite Eye One (see what lots of marketing can do).
romesdsanthem wrote:
I have a 17in Macbook pro and in comparison to my apple cinema display (which is very accurate to prints) the colors seems just a little but off. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for something I can use to calibrate the display on my laptop. I have heard that laptop displays can be a pain to calibrate but I'm hoping that someone has had some experience with this before.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kurt
If you are going to be editing on any screen, there is no point in doing it unless it is calibrated. I learned that one the hard way years ago and had to go back and fix a funny tint on about 3000 images.
I use the Integrated Color Color Eyes stuff and like it a lot.
That said, I think at a given price point, they are all about the same. Take the hit and get one and then use it monthly or weekly if you are taking your screen through a lot of temp changes.
