Inkelaar

so at the end of calibration they should look just like the crap in your hand?

Because I get them looking like the image in my hand per your steps and then when I move through the actual calibration it will warm up. uggggg what am I doing wrong?

I have been back and forth so many times this week I fill dizzy.

I recalibrate this morning to your suggestions and will get prints back Monday. I emailed ahead and they said that this last batch was brighter and not green on their end. We shall see if I am close Monday.

My settings at the moment are

gamma 2.2

white point 6500 ( I know you said not usually the case with Mac) I got that by choosing a profile that best matched my prints I had in hand that were green

brightness do not adjust  (I adjusted to match image) I adjusted early on and again to match 86 I believe

yesI am iMac with Spyder 5 Pro both are new

I also have three different images and when I am search through display profiles one may match image #1 but image #2 does not match that display profile at all. 

I am having a hard time calibrating my monitor. I have read Damien's tutorial several times.

I am matching my color profile to my prints (as best I can) looking at color, brightness and contrast.

Then I move to calibration (lights down).

I am wondering when I am looking at my image on the monitor for comparison should I be looking at it through photoshop? Sense this is my working software.

And at the end of calibration when I am comparing should I be comparing that the image on screen looks like the image in hand? Or should it look like what I think is correct?

I am so darn confused. I have corresponded with printer and basically from them I am trying to match my print in hand as closely as possible to what I see on the screen.

My image from them is dark and green.

TIA