oodlum - 10:15 pm on Oct 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

A tip for Mac designers... set your monitors to Windows 2.2 gamma instead of the standard Mac 1.8. It will look dark and grimy for a while but at least you will be seeing your designs (more or less) as 93% your audience will see them. Shades of colour are very different between the two platforms.

If you can't bring yourself to make the change, you can also preview Window/Mac gamma by jumping from Photoshop to ImageReady (Apple-Shift-M) and selecting Image > Adjustments > Gamma from the menu. There is a handy feature that lets you toggle between gammas.

Fireworks also has a "Windows Gamma" option under the View menu.

Actually, it wouldn't be a bad idea for Windows designers to do this too if their clients use Macs (don't optimise for Mac gamma, but at least check that it looks OK).