AppleInsider background color
Hello AppleInsiderians.
I am a new user here but have been lurking for a while. I registered becuase I have a silly question to ask. I recently calibrated my display using a wonderful tool called SuperCal which is available at <a href="http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal" target="_blank">http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal</a>
I really recommend this program as it calibrates the display sooooo much nicer than the default settings Apple provides, text is clearer, images are sharper, and everything just looks nicer.
Anyway, on to the question. With the default color settings this pages background is a pale blue, but with the SuperCal calibration it is plum. So, what is the background color supposed to look be, blue or purple?
Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully reply, and expect to see more posts from me in the future!
Skipp
I am a new user here but have been lurking for a while. I registered becuase I have a silly question to ask. I recently calibrated my display using a wonderful tool called SuperCal which is available at <a href="http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal" target="_blank">http://www.bergdesign.com/supercal</a>
I really recommend this program as it calibrates the display sooooo much nicer than the default settings Apple provides, text is clearer, images are sharper, and everything just looks nicer.
Anyway, on to the question. With the default color settings this pages background is a pale blue, but with the SuperCal calibration it is plum. So, what is the background color supposed to look be, blue or purple?
Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully reply, and expect to see more posts from me in the future!
Skipp
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Oh, and welcome to AppleInsider!
[ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
Skipp
alot of stuff is personally how you see it
at work (photo studio) we have stuff printed that we hold to the screen and match it up manually, that seems to work better then following the software calibrations
I had a play with SuperCal the other day, and, yes, it is so much more powerful than the standard display calibrator. Problem is, because it gives you the option to fiddle with the colour curves ad infinitum, you can quite easily get something that isn't quite right: took me four goes before I was entirely happy. Also, since color is enormously subjective, no two people are going to agree on what a given color is (hence Pantone charts and all the other guff you see lying around in print shops).
Keep playing, John, you'll get there eventually.
[ 03-04-2003: Message edited by: Overhope ]</p>
Overhope, I did what you said, and I did in fact get C6CCD0 for the darker areas and got E2E1E1 on the lighter areas. However, I got the same value in Digital Color Meter whether I was using my SuperCal profile or the default (LCD) profile. And CosmoNut, I tried it with IE 5.2, Mozilla 1.2 and Safari v60 all with the same results so I don't think it is a browser issue, but thank you for the suggestion.
I am really hoping there is a way to resolve this, because I don't want to go back to the default profile, and I don't want a color-blind display either.
Skipp