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To Calibrate your screen or monitor for optimum image reproduction, follow these steps:
Classic OS
- Select the Apple Menu
- Select Control Panels (this can also be found from the desktop in your System Folder)
- go to Monitors & Sound (or Monitors on older systems)
- Click on the Monitor symbol; in the 'colour depth' dialog box below, select 'Millions of Colours’
- Click on the Colour symbol; click the 'calibrate' button
- Follow the steps described in the control panel. When determining the gamma, it may help to squint or sit back from the monitor until the images on the screen are blurred: this will enable you to see when the solid symbol blends into the background. The white point setting should be 6500. This will look very yellow/pink at first. switch to 5000 and then back to 6500, then continue.
- When you have completed these steps, close the control panel.
OS X
- Click on System Preferences in the dock or on the Apple Menu
- Click on Displays; from the drop down ‘colour’ menu on the right select ‘Millions’ - this should already be selected as OSX computers use high-bit colour resolution as default.
- Click on the Colour tab at the top of the window; Click on the ‘calibrate’ button.
- Follow the instructions for calibrating. On the first pane, click in the ‘Expert Mode’ button to turn on additional options.
- After setting the target colours, set target gamma at 1.8
- Set D65 for ‘target white point’
- Complete the remaining steps by giving the profile a name.
The image below should now show a smooth gradation of colour from white to black, and ideally you should be able to differentiate between A, B & C, and X Y & Z.The Calibration Image will be provided here
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- grayscale
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- Proceed to Search.
If you have image-processing software, you can achieve better colour reproduction on screen by going through the steps described in the software to colour calibrate your monitor more accurately.