Mac vs Windows Color Correction

We got our first Macs at the beginning of last year and in that time I haven't worked on too many webdesign projects and most that I have worked on have been based around fairly consistent web safe colours.

However for our latest project I've been working on a lovely sand coloured background tile with a Moroccan pattern I created in Inkscape, anyway, it turns out on Windows computers this looks grey instead of sand coloured.

We specifically chose Macs because we really wanted the quality of color and contrast that you get with them, yet Windows machines aren't able to faithfully reproduce those rich colours.

So, there is an easy fix, on your mac create a new user profile in System Preferences, then adjust the gamma number from 1.8 to 2.2 in that user so you can test colours for web projects; or even use it to create the original artwork.

Here's a link to another site that tells you how to change the colour preferences<>.