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10 years, 4 months ago - Thomas Caminada

Hi everyone,
I own a macbook pro and have the feeling that my screen isn't really accurate. I tried once to calibrate it by myself and it was even worst and finished by rebooting my computed for getting back the normal setting. I use a lot lightroom for working my pictures and started to work with Davinci resolve for color correction. I basically use softwares like FCP, adobe suite, Davinci, red giant suite and other similar programs.

I read that it's basically impossible to have a 100% accurate screen, specially if it is a Laptop one. I should by a proper professional monitor for getting serious about these stuffs and having an optimal but if I could at least find a way to adjust my screen to a something bit more decent that would be really helpful.

The normal color profile for my macbook pro seems really yellowish and has too much contrast, I used the Srgb that I think comes from my camera and seems a bit more accurate and what I get and export seems more accurate but I still feel there is a problem with the contrast and things aren't as good as they should be.

I heard about the spyder which is used to calibrate computer screen and heard some positive reviews and also something which is called colomunkie. I'm really confused with all these color profiles stuffs, heard that you should have different one for optimal work with videos or pictures. I can have access to a spyderpro but heard that it was more supposed to be for accretes pictures before printing, would it be worth it to use it on my mac to have a general more accurate picture or is it a bad ideas because it might messed with my videos work if it isn't made for it?

How you guys normally do for that kind of stuffs ? is there any places where they might create for you calibrate profiles for you computer or should you buy one of these items? Do you need different profiles if you are working with lightroom or davinci? Thank you very much for you answers, I'm completely lost with this.