Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom Set monitor resolution and color preference Under Apple Menu System Preferences Displays, set colors to millions. This is also where you can adjust the resolution of the monitor. Depending on the size of your monitor, this number will be different (1152 720 or 1440 900 are recommended). Under the Display Preferences or Colorsync Preferences, you can also check to make sure the Display profile created from a calibration device is correctly chosen. III. Monitor Control Calibrate your monitor and change settings Have you ever been to the home electronics store and noticed how every television set displays the same broadcasted information differently? While one set's display may look a little magenta compared to another with a lighter more cyan appearance, we would probably be most inclined to pick the one that looks the best and most pleasing to our eyes. Computer monitors are exactly the same in that each and every monitor right out of the box will display the same data differently. Monitors will age over time, and colors tend to shift with usage. Without several monitors in our home side by side how do we know if our monitor might be the slightly magenta one, or the lighter one with a more cyan cast? Although the side by side comparison for the most pleasing display may work fine for the television, it is important that what we see on our monitor is relatively accurate if we ultimately want our prints to match what we see on the monitor. If the monitor is not calibrated, or the calibration is inaccurate, we can end up making changes to data based on a false interpretation of the colors presented on the display, and, ultimately, maintaining consistent color results as the document crosses through different devices will be diffi cult at best. In order to control the monitor output most accurately for color consistency, it needs to be calibrated. When you calibrate your monitor, a profile is created to adjust the behavior of the monitor so it conforms to known color specifications, and describes how the numeric color values in an image must be converted so that colors are displayed accurately on screen. Calibration neutralizes any color casts the monitor displays, and adjusts its gamma (brightness of the midtones) to set black and white points for accurate color 14