I am a photographer and am wondering how I should set my colour display settings to achieve the most accurate colours on my MacBook while editing. Should I have the true to tone on or off, what is Coloursync Utility, where should I set my gamma, should the temp be at 6500? I often will edit a photo on my computer but it looks different on my phone.

Also, do you all recommend editing in a dark room? What tips do you have if you are editing on the go and can’t edit in a dark room?

Any help is appreciated!!

  • panamanRed58@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    First, become familiar with the principle of RTFM. Your question suggest you haven’t and just using whatever settings your glean from correspondents here won’t change that. There is no easy path to learning photography. The effort should improve your work.

    Why do you want to change the defaults? Have you experimented with them at all? If you don’t know why the monitor is set to 6500k or which color space to use, that’s where you need to start. Read, test, evaluate, and bring your curated questions to the group.

    You’re question may as well be what sneakers to wear while you edit.

    • msabeln@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Either Brooks or ASICS. But I’m no expert: my wife is in elementary education and that’s what she recommends.

      Yeah, asking about settings typically indicates that a lot more theoretical knowledge is needed.

  • strangeweather415@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Mac’s come color calibrated out of the box. Do not mess with any settings on the internal display unless you REALLY know what you are doing.

  • Obi-Wayne@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I turn True Tone off. Everything else I leave as is (brightness about 60%). If you’re going to be printing a lot, you’ll want to calibrate. But if almost or all of your work is digital, the truth is most people will be using a phone to view your work. Androids are all over the maps with their color (previous android owner for years), but iPhones are relatively the same. And the iPhone is extremely close to a MacBook. The last two years, I’ve been making sure it looks good on the MacBook, and because of that it looks great on the majority of people’s phones.

  • 0x001688936CA08@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Seeing accurate colours on a screen depends on your working environment as well as the display.

    Get a monitor calibration device and create profiles for wherever you intend to do colour-critical work.

    If you just want make sure your pictures look the same on you phone as they do on your MacBook, then don’t do anything because it’s not feasible. All screens are different.

  • fieryuser@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Accurate for what? For printing? For how the content producer wanted it to look on your monitor?