

The Apple Liquid Retina XDR Display allows more direct manipulation than that, similar to how a high-end desktop display works: It doesn’t need to generate and go through a corrective ICC profile (put on eyeglasses), because the display hardware itself can be calibrated (laser surgery on the eye itself). This is usually an automated thing you click once, stand back, and wait for it to finish. macOS then uses the ICC profile to correct the display by that much, kind of like putting on eyeglasses tuned for a specific person’s eye defects.
Imac display profile photography printiing install#
That is an advanced-user kind of thing, different than how these devices are typically used to profile the display, which is: Use their software to 1) display a known color target on the screen, 2) measure it, then 3) use those measurements to generate and install an ICC profile describing how far off the screen is. You can then manually enter those values the way Art did. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the Datacolor Spyder, but the video makes it clear what it will need if it’s going to work for this purpose: The software you use to run the Spyder must have a feature that displays a target and reports the values read off the screen by the measuring device. Over the years, X-Rite has bought up many of the color management brands like GretagMacBeth (makers of the ColorChecker target).ĭatacolor is another traditional maker of color management devices, and one of their products should work just as well.

Calibrite is a new brand name that X-Rite came up with for their color products.
