How to Calibrate Your Mac's Display. By Jordan Merrick 21 Mar 2013. Some of the colours looked somehow different on the printed photo - the red looks slightly different, almost purple. This is why a photograph can look different than what your Mac shows you. To calibrate the monitor manually. The specificities of calibrating an iMac or Mac screen. PVA and IPS for short. The better the quality, the easier it is to calibrate it but above all to edit your photos on it and obviously some photo retouching. Mainly because bad panels are distinguished by their poor viewing angle. Calibrate your monitor with your favorite. 124 Shares Monitor calibration always comes up in the that I teach. It’s important regular maintenance for everyone who wants to make sure that their prints match what they see on screen. Calibration comes up in in Elements classes when we discuss color correcting. Someone will submit a photo for feedback, thinking that she’s done a great job correcting the color. Everyone else might see a colored tint to the photo. This is a sure sign that that the editor’s monitor needs calibrating. So, I’ve written this article to give you the 411 on monitor calibration, short and sweet. • WHO should calibrate? Anyone who wants to ensure that the colors in the photos they print match the colors that they see as they edit on screen. • WHAT is monitor calibration? Monitor calibration involves holding a small piece of hardware, called a colorimeter, over your monitor. Special software flashes various colors in the background. The colorimeter measures the appearance of the colors and adjusts the color profile for your monitor if necessary. So, for instance, if pure Red is supposed to appear on your screen but the colorimeter reads it as an off-shade, the software will make the necessary adjustment to your monitor’s color profile to ensure that pure red displays as pure red. • WHERE should you calibrate? Calibrate all computers that you use for photo editing. Mac and PC, desktop and laptop. Yes, I have an iMac and it does, contrary to popular belief, need calibrating. • WHY calibrate? Because you are concerned that your colors in general and skintones in particular don’t match from screen to print. • WHEN to calibrate? Calibrate your monitor(s) every one to two weeks. Monitor color profiles “drift”, so they need to be trued up regularly. The colorimeter I used is the, pictured above. I have used it for several years and I am very happy with it. Before I bought an iMac, I used an earlier version of this Pantone Huey: It worked great on my PC, but didn’t support my Mac at the time. Note that a selling feature for Spyder 4 is that you can calibrate your iPhone and iPad as well as you desktop and laptop. Now, I can only think of a couple of reasons that this might be necessary. First, a photographer who proofs images with clients on her iPad might like calibrated colors. 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