Digital BW, The Print

If you use 1.8 gamma on a mac, it looks darker on a PC monitor. You can check out what it would look like on a PC clone under photshops View, Proof Setup window. When you choose windows rgb, the monitor goes darker. I've
always read to keep the monitor at 1.8 for a Mac.

Jerry


Brian Mikiten wrote:

>  Can someone give a good explanation of why a 2.2 gamma is standard on a PC but a 1.8 on a mac? I'm doing B/W work on a G4/PS/GF/1160/Piezo machine and trying to get things calibrated. This comes up as an issue regularly.
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>   Todd, I have never used the srgb colorspace or 2.2 gamma. I'm on a mac. I've always used gamma 1.8 and Adobe RGB Color space.
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