Screen Calibration Question For Mac

Nov 07, 2015  Re: Color Calibration PC vs MAC In reply to ChristopherL. Oct 31, 2015 While I have exactly zero personal experience in projection, my best WAG is that the PC/Mac calibration concern is going to be contributing less to your issue than the projector/screen/ambient lighting.

ASUS ProArt Calibration Technology

Whether you're using a desktop, laptop or Mac, ASUS ProArt Calibration Technology* is a monitor hardware calibration application that offers color accuracy tuning and uniformity compensation to make things easy when it's time to recalibrate your display's uniformity and color consistency.

* Specifications may vary by model

Color accuracy optimization

ASUS ProArt Calibration lets you optimize color space settings for different content. Besides sRGB, you can create advanced setups comprising of five different color spaces and other customized settings.

Uniformity compensation

ASUS ProArt Calibration gives you 3x3 and 5x5 uniformity compensation matrices to ensure consistent brightness throughout the screen to reduce color shift.

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Saved color parameter profiles

The ASUS ProArt Calibration Technology saves all color parameter profiles on the ProArt monitor’s internal scaler IC chip instead of the PC. This lets you connect your monitor to different devices without needing to continuously change existing settings. It also reduces the signal distortion between the IC and the LCD optical spectrum. The color profiles can be easily activated by using the hotkey on the monitor next time without a PC or calibrators.

Compatible with most calibrators

The ASUS ProArt Calibration Technology is also compatible with the top major hardware calibrators such as X-rite i1 Display Pro and Datacolor Spyder 5 series.

Calibrating your Mac’s display will ensure the digital values in images are translated to display properly on the display devices you use, and is an important step anyone doing image editing and graphic design. To help with this, OS X has a built-in display calibration tool which supports both basic and expert modes for calibrating your display. These options are nothing new for OS X; however, in El Capitan Apple has made the calibrator’s expert mode hidden by default.

The calibrator is a tool that is located in the System > Library > ColorSync > Calibrators directory, and which can be launched in the Finder or by going to the Displays system preferences and clicking the “Calibrate…” button. In older versions of the program, the option for Expert Mode was a checkbox on the calibrator’s main window, but now this is missing. However, if you hold the Option key when opening the Calibrator tool, the checkbox will show and be checked.

When you see this checkbox, you can still uncheck it to run the calibrator in basic mode, so it is rather odd that Apple has imposed this change on the calibrator; however, it is what it is.

If you wish to calibrate your display, I do recommend you spend some quality time with the Calibrator tool in Expert mode. It is not the best option out there since the adjustment bars are rather small which make fine-tuning a little challenging, but with practice and a fair amount of squinting to ensure the images you are presented with during the calibration properly blend together, you can get a fairly decent result.

Optionally you can look into third-party calibration tools like SuperCal, including hardware calibration devices like the Spyder. These can be a bit expensive, but may be easier to use for quick and uniform calibrations, and may be worth it if your work is requires image management.

Hold the Option key when you launch the calibration program, and this option will now be available for a more in-depth display calibration routine.