Should I give up trying to get accurate color on my 20"iMac? | Thread profile

I bought a new aluminum iMac in December -- upgrading from a PC based system. As someone who is starting a photography business I was attracted to the iMac because I'd heard raves about their compatibility with Photoshop as well as the ability to color manage with excellent accuracy. (I have now learned that that information was based on people's experience with the old white iMac, but I didn'...

Your iMac's screen is only capable of displaying thousands of colours. It doesn't matter how many different colour calibration devices you buy, you're never going to be able to get around the fact that the screen itself is incapable of displaying millions of colours. If you attach an Apple Cinema Display to the iMac, you will need to calibrate that display and use the resulting profile with...

I would contact the people at NAPP-- National Association of Photoshop Professionals---I know they use IMacs---I would guess it would be a matter of getting your printer correlated with the color profile of the monitor-- They would be the people to put you on the right track I can almost guarantee that it is not the iMac--I am certain it has to do with calibration and correlating color ...

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I am still where I was before. I think the photography world agrees that the screen in the 20" iMac is completely inadequate for photography and graphics work. I have read many articles concluding that the new aluminum 20" iMac -- even with calibration -- cannot display color adequately. I highly doubt that the NAPP is using the new glossy screened ...

Can you exchange it for the 24 inch?---are those screens better?---but as you say, it is more than just the screen color--- Can you complain to Apple?---the phone reps don't seem to know too much but-----can you take to the Apple store genius bar near you and complain?--

Gloss or Matte doesn't improve color quality. The f'n different Panel is what you're seeing.

Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Gloss or Matte doesn't improve color quality. The f'n different Panel is what you're seeing. Agreed. But for photography work, the brightness of the iMac is way too high -- which it needs to be to overcome the glossy screen's reflective properties. When the brightness ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Hope H. Agreed. But for photography work, the brightness of the iMac is way too high -- which it needs to be to overcome the glossy screen's reflective properties. When the brightness level is turned down to an more acceptable level for photo editing, the reflections do cause a huge problem. For this ...

Yeah, there are people who like to pretend the iMac is capable enough as a prosumer (funny that word isn't in OS X's dictionary) level machine and yet all the evidence points to the contrary. If it wasn't for OS X, I'd recommend buying a quad core PC that can cost nearly half the price of the lowest iMac - even though it's prebuilt - including a matte display. For Apple to force people...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Yeah, there are people who like to pretend the iMac is capable enough as a prosumer (funny that word isn't in OS X's dictionary) level machine and yet all the evidence points to the contrary. Because it's not a real word, and it's a stupid fake word at that. When people say "...