Change display saturation

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Change display saturation

I have a 22" Samsung LCD connected to my MacBook. The problem is that this panel is very saturated.
I've tried configuring the panel itself through the OSD menu, but I can't desaturate is more without losing color balance. And I've calibrated the display both manually and using Pantone Huey. But the colors are still too saturated.

I'd like to know if there's any third part application that will let you control the saturation of the graphics chip. I know that most drivers in Windows will let you control these things, but I don't find any options for it in the Mac OS system preferences.

Any tips?

Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 30, 2007 4:37 PM

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BSteely

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Apr 30, 2007 9:29 PM in response to rainydays357

The Mac has pretty sophisticated color management software. I doubt it is second to Windows. If you go into Display Preferences and click on the Color tab you will see which profile is active for your display in the left hand column. If you click on the Open Profile button, ColorSync Utility will launch and you will see the underlying settings. Everything is editable but usually editing at this level would be done with a calibration device. If you are feeling brave, you can hand tweak all the values. I recommend you either write down starting values or take a lot of screen shots of the starting points in case you need to return to original values.

It's doubtful you will ever get a perfect match out of your desktop display to your MacBook display since they have drastically different color gamuts to start with. As you point out, when you try and cut drive levels in order to color balance, a lot of distortions are introduced. You are not alone in suffering this. It's an industry-wide problem. Notebook LCD screens and desktop LCD screens are like apples and oranges. They are designed with different considerations in mind.

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