"Quickie" Mac screen calibration software which seems to work

[Paul Stenquist]

What Rick said. If you don't have to calibrate dual monitors, the  
Spyder 2 Express can do the job for about $70. Monitor calibration is  
a bargain, and it's essential to digital photography, whether that be  
shooting digital originals or scanning film.
Paul
On Mar 7, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

> 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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