Macs use a default color profile-a group of color settings-for each connected display. If you’re an amateur photographer, if you like to watch videos on your Mac, or even if you’re a gamer, you should consider calibrating your display. However, this color discrepancy prompted me to look into why my monitor was showing different colors, and how to get them to coincide, as much as possible, with those my client was seeing, as well as with another Mac I use. We narrowed the issue down to the color profiles that were being used on our different computers.Ĭolor profiles are a very complex topic, and I don’t plan to go into much detail here, other than to say that the different programs we were using treated the color profiles differently, either using them when editing images or not.
In addition, after editing the images and sending them back to the client, it turned out that the colors he saw had changed as well. I received files from a client that should have been a certain color, but that didn’t match a sample printed with the same color. It all started when images on my 24″ Dell monitor started looking odd.
