Pc Gamma or Mac Gamma?

[mixedupmacandpc]

I've been thinking about this for a while, ya know, one of those nagging things in the back of the brain that wakes u up at 3am in the form of a monster from space attacking u and your Angelina Jolie-type bride who is just about to open a bottle of wine on a blanket in the middle of Kew Gardens...wait, where was I?

For mac users, do u set ur monitors to 2.2 PC gamma or do u use native 1.8?
:cheers coocoo

[ms]

Hum...
It's nice to know that other people wake up at 3:00am contemplating monitor settings.
I think?
Calibrating, I don't like Adobes
Question I have been tossing, save cmyk files for mac or pc?
Image pyramid?
The printer is using Macs so is there a difference?
:cheers
Mike

[mixedupmacandpc]

yes ms, those are others that just sit there in the back, waiting for some importune time to come out of nowhere. Like what is X11 and why do i need it.
:)

[kiwicolin]

Macs look best at native 1.8

Remember that the midtone brightness will be 20% different than a pc - set the color space to Adobe RGB
However, if you are calibrating to the monitor, it should be accurate for print
For web thats another story, use sRGB and use the windows RGB proof often to check your colors

[mixedupmacandpc]

Originally posted by kiwicolin
Macs look best at native 1.8

Remember that the midtone brightness will be 20% different than a pc - set the color space to Adobe RGB
However, if you are calibrating to the monitor, it should be accurate for print
For web thats another story, use sRGB and use the windows RGB proof often to check your colors

Ah, a serious answer...thx! so if developing web or online graphics that u know are going to be viewed more on a pc then a mac, u work with monitor set with mac gamma (1.8) and just use PC color profiles to proof? i don't have a spyder anymore so i can't really calibrate effectively, but i can manually get things close for printing on my printers, no problem. I just don't have a pc anymore to see what things look like there. but i like ur tip! thx...

[Edited on 11/9/2008 by mixedupmacandpc]

[Edited on 11/9/2008 by mixedupmacandpc]

[kiwicolin]

Give it a shot and see how it goes. Its always better with a screen calibrater though, but if you can match colors to your proofs thats fine, as long as you know what your getting. Just keep in mind that when your creating web graphics they may be a bit darker on windows.