Thursday, 26 February 2009

Mac Screen Calibration

For months I've been trying to calibrate the screen on my Mac, and I've just cracked it! I recently did a shoot on a black backdrop, on my monitor I couldn't see the creases and highlights on the backdrop. However when I viewed the images on another monitor I could see them everywhere.

I tried to calibrate the monitor by going to System Preferences > Displays > Colour. This varied the colour slightly but I needed to adjust the contrast somehow. I looked online and downloaded various calibration apps, none of them did the job.

Tonight by chance I clicked System Preferences > Universal Access and saw an option for Enhance Contrast. I dropped the slide bar right down to normal. Problem solved. After reading on so many forums saying you cannot adjust the screen contrast on a Mac I found a way :).

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