Use subdued high-CRI (90+) lighting in your workspace.Other things you can do to improve your color workflow:
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I don't know whether X-rite's bundled i1 Profile software has this feature. I believe Displa圜AL has a "visual white point match" feature you can use to match neutral gray on your display to a neutral gray reference card (viewed under indirect daylight near a window in your workspace) to avoid the warm/magenta cast so many cheaper displays suffer. If you can't afford this, get a cheaper sRGB IPS display and an X-rite i1 Display calibration puck and use the donationware Displa圜AL software to calibrate. If it's gotta be exactly right, get a PA Spectraview and rest easy. Now I know that numbers don't tell the whole story. Until I did this side-by-side comparison, I always suspected that most other calibrated IPS displays looked warm/magenta. I got the two displays to look similar by using Spectraview's Visual White Point feature to determine that D55 on the EA274 was a closer match to D50 on the PA274 and calibrating the former to D55 instead of D50. Apparently, our eyes do not see colors the same way a calibration puck sees them. On the EA274 - even though it's calibrated exactly the same and has an IPS panel - neutral gray looks significantly more warm/magenta. White and neutral gray on the PA271 very closely match the white and gray patches on my X-rite ColorChecker passport and the studio gray paint in my office when viewed under indirect daylight. Theoretically, they should look the same. Calibrated to D50 at 120cd/m2, both yield very low delta-E values.
I use the EA274 for thumbnail grids when using Lightroom and PhotoLab. What do I mean by "visually more accurate"? Well, I have NEC PA271 (pricey, wide-gamut) and EA274 (cheap, sRGB) displays. And, my PA271 is visually more accurate than any other display I've used, and working with scores of other pro photographers I've used a lot. The Spectraview calibration kit is better than most. Why the PA-series in particular? First, it's one of the go-to displays for color-critical pros. If your requirements are more modest, you may be satisfied with lesser displays (calibrated) as long as they have an IPS panel. modern inkjet printers), get thee a wide-gamut NEC PA-series Spectraview display and don't look back. If color accuracy is critical to you and your work will be output on devices with a gamut larger than sRGB (e.g. I'm not very clued up on this stuff so would appreciate some guidance. Is that the case or would a monitor with 100% sRBG suffice? I do graphic design as well so I assume I would need a monitor that has Adobe RGB coverage as well. Its in mint condition so can't justify purchasing a newer model. I have a 13" MBP retina display (early 2013) that has 2 thunderbolt ports (I think thunderbolt 2) and USB ports, no USB-C. Thanks for the input Tom, would this be a good option?ĭell UP2716D 27" UltraSharp WQHD LED Monitor Almost all of them, whether matte or glossy, have less reflective (distracting) screens than a Thunderbolt Display. There are a lot of DisplayPort monitors out there, with a variety of feature and price ranges, in both sRGB and Adobe RGB variants. If you don't need a docking station, you'd be better off with a 27" DisplayPort monitor if you do, you'd better off with such a monitor and a 'headless' Thunderbolt dock. So by the time they discontinued it, both the monitor and the dock were out of date: the dock had only USB 2, and the monitor was known for a highly reflective (not merely glossy) screen. While the monitor was reasonably up to date when it first came out, Apple sat on their hands and sold it for year after year without improvements. Besides the fact that it is discontinued, there are a couple of reasons to avoid it.
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Your Mac does not appear to be one of those that supports 4K and Ultra HD displays.Īpple – Using 4K displays, 5K displays, and Ultra HD TVs with your MacĬan't source an Apple Thunderbolt Cinema display anywhere so that is not an option. Would a 4K monitor work on this with an adaptor to either a thunderbolt port or USB port without downscaling resolution.