Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
- Subject: Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
- From: Peter Miles <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:29:58 +1200
- Organization: Massey University
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..... Thats why relative, rather than absolute, monitor matching is so much
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more practical for most situations.
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C. David Tobie
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Design Cooperative
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email@hidden
Thanks C.D.Tobie and Roger Breton the replies.
Our plan here is to teach students what calibrating and profiling monitors is
about, then get them to do it so they can see how it works. Hopefully they will
appreciate it's practical value and take it out into the industry.
Our Problems with Personal Monitor Profiles.
For our situation at Massey university, the problems arising from having monitor
profiles as personal preferences are (as I see it) ...
1 - It prevents us using any monitor hardware adjustments (brightness, contrast
or white point) as part of our process of monitor calibration.
2 - Instead of each monitor being profiled once a month, now each monitor now
has to be profiled once an month x 'number_of_users'.
With 1000+ students using our design labs I can't see how this is going to work.
3 - The lectures I support consider teaching students monitor profiling an
advanced stage of a designers or photographers education.
Previously with OS9 our non expert users ended up with a reasonably calibrated
and profiled monitor by default when they logged on. This no longer occurs with
monitor profiles as personal preferences.
Is there provision in OSX for the OS to use only a local root level monitor
profile and ignore a users personal monitor profile?
Has the monitor profiling philosophy changed?
Is my understanding correct that there are now essentially two schools of
thought regarding monitor profiling?
1 - adjust monitor hardware close to target conditions (luminance, white point
etc.) - then profile it.
2 - leave monitor in 'native/Raw' state and profile it and let software
adjustments in the profiling process make the adjustments.
Again, Thanks for your help
Peter Miles
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Peter Miles
Photography Technician
College of Fine Art, Design and Music
Massey University
Wellington
New Zealand.
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