Comments on: This is your Mac on drugs

By: ismail yk

ismail yk — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:48:15 +0000

Thank you very good information..

By: dodd

dodd — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:47:56 +0000

Hmm, I've standardized my pc and mac all on 1.8 on warm white (or page white). I've always had to use Adobe gamma to fix the broken default gamma on my pc. This always looked "wonky on PC's" other than my own. Go figure.

By: René Damkot

René Damkot — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:30:10 +0000

So many misinformation here it's making my head spin…

Safari displays images with embedded .icc profile correct.

Any Mac user should be using Gamma 2.2, ideally on a calibrated screen. No reason whatsoever to use 1.8. Images will look identical if viewed color managed anyhow.

If you want an image and a background to match in any browser, strip the .icc profile. Easy.

FF 3.0 with color management enabled color manages like Safari should.
FF 3.5 does it the Safari way by default, but can be set to fully color manage.

@Paul: Calibrate the screen. sRGB is *not* a display profile, and should *not* be used as one.

By: paul55

paul55 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:31:22 +0000

I'm on a macbook pro, with OS X 10.5.7.

When i calibrate my display to have a gamma 2.2 and whitepoint d65, the display looks different than the profile that I downloaded from the link in this article. Those 2 calibrations look quite different, with the downloaded one being much more bluish.

I'm using the calibrations to edit in aperture for photos to be used on the web. Which of those 2 calibrations will give me the closest approximation of what the viewers with a PC will see?

By: ASDFFDSFDS

ASDFFDSFDS — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:52:11 +0000

2.2 looks so shit though, colours lose all subtlety, 2.2 is a punch in the face, and 1.8 is a gentle caress

By: Jetrel

Jetrel — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:17:22 +0000

Oops, almost forgot:
- crappy proprietary OS underpinnings -> UNIX.

Now if only MS would do that, too.

By: Jetrel

Jetrel — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:16:06 +0000

Problem solved – apple is moving to 2.2 default gamma in OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".

I have to hand it to steve jobs for being willing to axe many instances of "being different for no good reason". The list includes:
- QuickDraw 3D -> OpenGL
- SCSI, ADB, and various 'mac' cords -> USB
- PICT images as the OS default -> TIFF, PNG, PDF
- text in a resource fork -> .TXT files
- .sit, .hqx, etc -> .zip
- PPC -> x86
- ??? -> MP3, MP4

Being different isn't worth it when it has no advantages.

By: Virtex

Virtex — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:48:11 +0000

Эээ, объясните, плиз, а то я чего то не совсем в тему въехал, это как?

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