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Every so often I try to generate a color profile for my monitor using the Adobe Gamma that comes with Photoshop (I have version 7), but inevitably wind up deleting the generated profile and restoring the factory defaults.
I am using Windows XP Pro. The default HW color temperature of my monitor is 9300K and the factory default brightness and contrast appear to generate the best overall color quality for my desktop.
The problem is, after changing the monitor temperature to 6500K and running the Adobe Gamma utility (which doesn’t seem to do anything other than make the screen brighter), the resulting colors look much more dull. Is that just a necessary sacrifice of using color management? The desktop looks similar to switching to the Windows classic theme. Am I doing something wrong? Also, if most monitors are set to 9300K by default, why is the usual process to change the color temperature to 6500K?
Thanks.
Dave
I am using Windows XP Pro. The default HW color temperature of my monitor is 9300K and the factory default brightness and contrast appear to generate the best overall color quality for my desktop.
The problem is, after changing the monitor temperature to 6500K and running the Adobe Gamma utility (which doesn’t seem to do anything other than make the screen brighter), the resulting colors look much more dull. Is that just a necessary sacrifice of using color management? The desktop looks similar to switching to the Windows classic theme. Am I doing something wrong? Also, if most monitors are set to 9300K by default, why is the usual process to change the color temperature to 6500K?
Thanks.
Dave
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