Can I use DisplayCAL to color match monitors to Apple XDR Display on M1 MBP?

[Edgar]

Displays:

• 16″ MacBook Pro – Liquid Retina XDR Display
  • LED backlit display with IPS, 500 nits brightness, wide color (P3)
• 27″ LG Ultrafine 5K Display
  • LED backlit LCD display with IPS, 500 nits brightness, wide color (P3)
• 22″ Dell P2211H (Not used for photo editing)
  • LED backlit LCD display, TN, 250 nits brightness

I have a X-Rite ColorMunki Display.

I’ve tried using X-Rite i1Studio to calibrate my displays but having some issues which led me to DisplayCAL as it seems to have more features.

From what I can see, the Liquid Retina XDR Display in my 16″ M1 MacBook Pro does not support color profiles. It only has options to set a color preset within macOS’s display preferences. I had already ran the calibration for the XDR Display and I have the profile I wanted to use but I see no way of applying it. It’s fine though, I don’t mind keeping the factory calibration and using one of the built in presets like Photography P3-D65.

Now, what I actually want to do is to color match my LG Ultrafine to the XDR Display. I don’t really care too much about the Dell monitor, it’s not used for photo editing although it’d be nice for it to also be color matched if possible.

The LG Ultrafine mattes to me because I edit photos on it when I’m at my desk and I edit photos on the built in display when I’m not, and I want both screens to match.

That’s really all I want though. I don’t necessarily need to calibrate the XDR Display.

Is this easy to do with DisplayCAL? Are there any guides or simple tutorials I can follow?

I’m new to this and quite intimidated by all the different options/settings and things that it seems I’m expected to know when using DisplayCAL.

I do photography but it’s 100% for displays, I don’t do any prints. I really only post my photos to a website or to Instagram (which supports wide color P3).

Thank you in advance.

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[Vincent]

1. Measure white point in D65 preset on SDR with DisplayCAL (several ways, uncalibrated display report with console log should be the fastest)
   Make sure you are using WLED PFS for Mac CCSS
2. LG Ultrafine uses the same backlight, use same CCSS, manually set xy white point target to the measured WP of XDR. Calibrate & profile.
   Further WP refinements can be done with visual white point editor but since they use same backlight you shoudl not need it.
3. Dell, same approach but use White LED  CCSS.

Since you are on a mac and its color management engine for desktop is very limited stick to defaults regarding profile type and such (matrix, single curve TRC,  “infinite” fake contrast using BPC… you know, defaults).

[Edgar]

Thank you, I’ll give that a try.

I’m currently trying to troubleshoot DisplayCAL not detecting my displays. It just shows web @ localhost in the dropdown. Tools > Detect Display Devices and Instruments doesn’t seem to do anything.

Will try that once I figure this out.

[Edgar]

Figured out what the issue is thanks to this post:

Comment from discussion divinebaboon’s comment from discussion "DisplayCAL and M1 Macs".

Seems like DisplayCAL downloads v2.1.2 of Argyll instead of the latest version.

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