"Quickie" Mac screen calibration software which seems to work

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

On the ACD 23", it produces a screen calibration that's way off the  
mark from what the Eye One Display 2 unit calibrates my screen for.  
Very cold and bluish to my eye. I prefer the colorimeter setting, I  
use 130 Luminance, 1.8 gamma, and 5500K white point.

Godfrey


On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Charles Robinson wrote:

> I found an application this morning which has truly helped me.
>
> I'd been going batty since switching from my old G4 Powerbook to a
> relatively-cheap 13" Macbook (not the pro model).
>
> The screen, while I can eventually get over the glossiness, just had a
> washed-out pale look to it, even when the brightness was dimmed down.
> The curves were all wrong.  I hated it.
>
> No amount of tipping the screen back and forth or running Apple's
> calibration tool could help.  I was beginning to be really bummed
> out....
>
> Along comes this simple shareware: SuperCal.  It has a "wizard" which
> walks you through about 12 steps to determine the proper response
> curve for your screen.  I don't know if this is any way to MATCH
> colors for printing and whatnot, but I have to say - it's managed to
> give me a screen I am happy to use now.  It's almost as good as what I
> had on the Powerbook (although the Macbook screen still has a huge
> variance in how it looks if you look at it from overhead vs.
> "underneath" such as when the screen is tipped way back).
>
> Highly recommended for those of you using a Mac who wonder if they
> have it set anywhere near correctly.  "Works for me!"
>
> http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal/
>