Display Color Calibration

* If you are working in web and print remember to change your monitor calibration settings each time you switch between web and print so that your images look as close as they can to the final distribution.

Create a display color calibration profile for a specific printer:

• Print the color guide 

• Go to System Preferences > Displays > Color > Calibrate

• Check Expert Mode. Follow the steps in the calibration menu paying specific attention to white tempurature to Match the display to the printed image.

• Save the color profile with the specific printer name that you are matching

• In system preferences keep Automatically adjust brightness as ambient
light changes unchecked

* Understand that the brightness toggle on your display or computer keyboard will effect the brightness and contrast expeceted in your print as well.

Change a display color calibration profile to web:

• Go to System Preferences > Displays > Color >
Apple Studio Display (for the Mac Desktops)
or
Dell 1780FP(for the schools extended monitors and a better PC color proof)
or
Color LCD (for Mac Laptops)

*You should choose the standard setting that came with your display, this is however a moving target and is not perfect, displays will all be different. The goal is for your image to look good on all of these display settings. This is one of the reasons why extended monitors work well because it give you a PC and a Mac web preview.