Does anyone have a recommendation for a technical person to come to my home on the UES of NYC to color calibrate my Pro Display XDR?
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MP 7,1 Pro Display XDR Calibration
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Thank you for your response. I am having a problem with highlighting in Word. Between Apple techs and Microsoft techs, I think they screwed up the color rendition on my monitor. I am concerned that if I attempt a fix, I will make it worse. I need a tech to come to my home and do the calibration for me. Any suggestions?...Mel
First step would be to go to Preferences - Display and reselect the built in presets. Guessing the techs made a custom profile that isn't correct, this will reset it to factory
You can find more info here about preset differences here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlca6faa13/10.15/mac/10.15
You can find more info here about preset differences here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlca6faa13/10.15/mac/10.15
Can you provide a screenshot so I can compare with mine what you're seeing that you believe is incorrect.
The only option I believe is to replace the monitor and wait for another shipment.
I would suggest you also invest in a monitor calibrator if you need custom configuration. DataColor Sypder5 Elite and X-Rite i1 DisplayPro are the two known companies that offer in-home DIY calibration. That would be a cheaper investment than paying for someone to calibrate your monitor if only for home use.
I'm grateful for your interest. Is home calibration with a calibrator to which you prefer easy enough for a mere mortal to execute?
Yes! It's both a small device that you hang from your monitor and it runs a series of tests to your monitor (colour, brightness) and measures this against your current lightning environment. It generates a custom profile that is colour and brightness correct.
If you are used to uncalibrated monitors that displays super bright and saturated pictures, you might think the calibration is incorrect. The same is true if you are used to seeing dim and dull output from a previous monitor.
Of course if you believe your Pro Display XDR is not correctly calibrated to begin with then that's what you should be concerned with first as you are only patching a fix that might be hardware related.
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I just want to point out a second time that it appears you/someone has changed the colour calibration from the factory defaults. It is best advised to check this is the case before doing anything else.
I have checked and my screen is on the original factory settings. I'm going to live with this for a while and see if the color issue is simply my subjectivity. You have been a pal. Where in the world are you?...Mel
You have a super high end screen, there shouldn’t be any “living with” an issue with it. I wouldn’t accept that on a 500 buck monitor mate! Try to resize the screenshot and attach it here. Also try the other presets as well maybe. Or send me a direct message and I’ll give you an email address to send it to.
Ps I’m in London now but lived on the east side of nyc for many years!
Ps I’m in London now but lived on the east side of nyc for many years!
It's hard to tell because we're not familiar with the picture such that is that photo representative of how it's supposed to look? With regards to the colours of the icons (disregarding the pixelation and compression), it looks representative of what we know.
Here's the photo comparison against my monitor and icons.
Here's the photo comparison against my monitor and icons.
Uh. Am I missing something here*, how is a screenshot an accurate method of testing this? Is the view transform honoured at the other end?
Say I'm working in rec79 and take a screenshot that's then viewed on an srgb monitor, is the embedded profile converted to the srgb screen?
*quite likely
Say I'm working in rec79 and take a screenshot that's then viewed on an srgb monitor, is the embedded profile converted to the srgb screen?
*quite likely
You're right. I thought if there was a mis-calibration in the software this would translate to the screenshot. Versus a monitor hardware failure which would not. But I tested a couple screenshots with different profiles and these just all looked the same.
It would have to be taking a photo of the screen.
It would have to be taking a photo of the screen.