Samsung Lcd natural color software


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Alright, I've been holding off on buying a G5 since my parents don't want me too, but I was wondering if Samsung's natural color software would work on a mac? I am hoping that the new G5's are indeed coming out on the 23rd, and am therefore looking at either a dual 2.0 (1899?) or dual 2.2(2299?) (speculative prices with student discount). But I need to know if this software works since there is no other way to calibrate colors on my monitor (when using dvi). Anyone else use a samusng lcd on there mac? If no one does, do you think they would let me try it on a G5 in a mac store?

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I'm begining to think that natural color is a windows only samsung program. I can't find anything that say's it isn't. Anyways, does anyone else here have an lcd that needs software to calibrate running on there mac? What do you use to calibrate it, do you use the video card color settings or something? Or is there another program like this that you use?

Maybe I should just shell out for the 20" cinema display when I finally buy the mac. Anyone here any rumblings of new apple display revisions coming within the year? Maybe before summer?

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New and hopefully last utterly newbie question on this topic: Does OS-X use .icm files to manage color like windows xp does? If so, then I should just be able to use my calibrated windows .icm file on the mac. Right? If anyone has any insight on this, thank you very much in advance. I don't wanna buy a new monitor if I get a mac just because my current one looks not nearly as good uncalibrated (I love it calibrated properly, heh). :cry:

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New and hopefully last utterly newbie question on this topic:  Does OS-X use .icm files to manage color like windows xp does?  If so, then I should just be able to use my calibrated windows .icm file on the mac.  Right?  If anyone has any insight on this, thank you very much in advance.  I don't wanna buy a new monitor if I get a mac just because my current one looks not nearly as good uncalibrated (I love it calibrated properly, heh).  :cry:

WRONG.

First of all, even if you could use icm/icc profiles on a mac from a pc, (which i have no idea if you can do since I hate macs) you would be foolish for doing so. When you color profile your monitor, you are generating a specific profile for that exact monitor...sorta like a dna sample. Each monitor made is different. no 2 will get profiled EXACTLY alike. the electron guns may be a tad different, etc. something will be different in each monitor. So if you were to go to your mac, you'd have a completely new monitor setup to profile.

Secondly, you should profile at least once every 6 months, because as your monitor and it's hardware age, things will need to be constantly tweaked with the color profiles. Depending on what you use your profiled monitor for, and how mission critical it being profiled is, you may want to do it as ofent as once a month, or even once a week. If you really depend on it, Profile it once before every job you do, or at least once a day. I try to profile my monitor once every 3 months, but I should probably be doing it once a month, as i notice color differences in my cmyk prints, although that may be partly the print shops fault, and not my color setup.

In response to the other guy asking about what to profile with, if you want DEAD on accurate color, and the ability to trust without a doubt what you see on screen.... get a colorvision spyder with optical pro software

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mac uses a app called colorsync that uses .icc profiles

you may want to google your display and see if there is a .icc profile available, check your documentation, their web site, and any disks that came with it

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Thanks. SirEvan I don't think I am just adjusting the colors for everyday usage. It's an Lcd so I couldn't really do that without the software. But thanks for the advice. It looks like that colorsync program will probably do the trick.

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