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Archive 2009 · NEC Spectraview and Mac

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p.1 #1 · NEC Spectraview and Mac

Hi all, I just purchased a new NEC 2690 UXi2 with spectraview II. I balanced the monitor and it looks awesome. I am also fairly new to MAC and was wondering if there is anything I need to do to disable anything like colorsync or any Adobe gamma loaders? Or does the spectraview overide any color sync options?
Thanks!

Mar 05, 2009 at 02:23 AM

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Hi Jason,

I'd like to suggest, being that you're "fairly new" to Mac's, that you might find it worth your while to take some time to learn about some of the many powerful tools that OSX affords you as a photographer. I'm not sure why you think you will need to disable ColorSync with your new monitor...perhaps you can elaborate. In a nutshell, ColorSync is there to help you manage your profiles. A good place to start learning about it (Bookmark this baby!) would be here...

Apple - Pro - Resources
http://www.apple.com/pro/resources/

...where you'll want to download the "Color Management with Mac OS X Tiger" PDF document. It should give you a pretty good idea as to how to move forward with your monitors, printers, etc.

Another good ColorSync resource at their Pro site that you should take a look at...

Apple - Pro - Techniques - Image Editing in ColorSync
http://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/colorsync/index.html

...a brief how-to that should give you some idea how the utility functions.

So, the new 2690wuxi2, eh?! I've been waiting on that monitor and the new MacPro's to finally build my dream photo/video workstation...you'll have to let us all know how you like that monitor after you've spent some time with it!

Anyhoo, I hope this was helpful!

Mac on,
Jimmy G

Mar 06, 2009 at 02:47 AM

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p.1 #3 · NEC Spectraview and Mac

I was also new to Mac, a Mac Pro, last summer, and hooking up my Spectraview 2190 was an easy process and I didn't need to disable anything. Just downloaded and installed the Spectraview calibration app, hooked up my eye i1d2 and calibration was just as simple as it was on Windows.

Congrats on the new monitor, NEC really does make some superb panels!

Mar 06, 2009 at 08:53 AM

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p.1 #4 · NEC Spectraview and Mac

jimmy462 wrote:

I'm not sure why you think you will need to disable ColorSync with your new monitor...perhaps you can elaborate. In a nutshell, ColorSync is there to help you manage your profiles.

I guess I was just thinking back to my PC days when you had SOoooo much junk running in the background that you might have to disable as not to get in the way of calibration. Things like Adobe gamma on PC people would always forget about stopping that from starting up, but that is not the case in mac. Thanks for the links!

Mar 06, 2009 at 12:32 PM

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