"Quickie" Mac screen calibration software which seems to work

[Rick Womer]

One can buy a Huey Pro for $110 from B&H.  It takes a
minute to install, about a minute to run, and then you
have a monitor that looks =the same= as any other
calibrated monitor.  It is vastly superior to software
"calibration".

Calibrating a monitor with software is like measuring
a car's speed by licking a finger and sticking it out
the window.

Rick


--- Charles Robinson <charlesr at visi.com> 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/
> 
>   -Charles
> 
> --
> Charles Robinson - charlesr at visi.com
> Minneapolis, MN
> http://charles.robinsontwins.org
> 
> 
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