I enter textile art into exhibitions. The first phase is with jpegs.
I have a PC and most of the galleries use Macs. When I tried on my PC
to make the jpeg image exactly match the colors in the original I was
really surprised how different this looked on a Mac it was way too
saturated and really I would have been better to leave the image alone.
How do I set up my monitor to look the same as a Mac without buying a
Mac? Can i set my desired gamma to 1.8 as Macs are, will this help or
just ruin my own monitors rendition. Is this gamma setting the
difference or are there other reasons.
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First, let me say that I don't believe that this is a Mac versus PC
thing at all.
I have two identical LCD monitors on my system, and even when I drag
a picture from one to the other, or better yet split it across both, I
can see color differences between the two.
The bottom line: color matching is really, really hard.
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