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Editing for Web: PC vs Mac Gamma

 
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May 01, 2006 23:29 |  #1

I'm in a debate, I go to photojournalism school, it's a mac industry, I do a lot of web stuff, it's a PC industry...and the gammas between the two are very different when toning my photographs.

I finally got the computers at school setup for better toning for the web, took me long enough to learn how to do it...

but is there a way to get a medium between the two gammas and be satisfied with my images? this is the debate I have been having the last two days, my stuff usually either looks good on one and crap on the other, or just flat in both...

a prime example is today:

default settings here in the digital imaging lab, mac displays
http://blinking8s.com …track/IMG_2167_​edit22.jpg (external link)
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my settings, toned more closely for correct rendering on the apple gamma from the web
http://blinking8s.com …G_2167_edit22_c​orrect.jpg (external link)

the 1st is very flat on the apple displays, and ok on a PC i think, still not right, the 2nd is almost spot on to what I was after published on the web with the apple display, and dark on the PC gamma...

any tips or advise to deal with this?


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May 01, 2006 23:38 |  #2

Most macusers use PC gamma nowadays, I think. Mac gamma setting is an old setting. Maybe some other macuser will refute what I'm saying, but I don't like the mac gamma setting.

Computers at schools are notorious for not being calibrated, FYI...


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May 02, 2006 05:23 |  #3

Use gamma 2.2 for both mac and PC. It will only affect non color managed applications anyhow, and on a mac you can even browse the web colormanaged (Safari).
By the way, in Safari, on my screen, the original looks better then 'your' version: There the darker parts (Right girls face) are too dark IMO.
How do you have your PSCS color settings set? Gamma settings should *not* influence how you see things in PS.


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