Spyder 2 & Photoshop

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Jeff
Nov 20, 2005
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Hi All,
I’m fairy new to Photoshop (CS2) and have been reading this group for a few weeks now and found a lot of helpful info.
Today I bought the Colorvision Spyder 2 in order to calibrate my LCD monitor properly and it seems to have done a good job.

Now during installation of the software, it said that color-managed applications such as photoshop would use the new profile as the default. However, when I open a file or create a new one and go to Edit -> Assign profiles, the default one selected is:
‘Working RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1’
I can select ‘profile’ and then select the profile I created from the drop-down box but obviously don’t want to have to do this with every file I open!
Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks,

Jeff
jefftaylor at blueyonder.co.uk
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Bill Hilton
Nov 20, 2005
Jeff writes …

I bought the Colorvision Spyder 2 in order to calibrate my LCD monitor … said that color-managed applications such as photoshop would use the new profile as the default

Yes, it will get picked up as the default *monitor* profile.

However, when I open a file or create a new one and go to Edit -> Assign profiles, the default one selected is:
‘Working RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1’

This is a "working space" profile, which is different from a "monitor" profile.

I can select ‘profile’ and then select the profile I created from the drop-down box but obviously don’t want to have to do this with every file I open!

You don’t want to assign your monitor profile here, you just use the monitor profile to view the file on your monitor.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Yes, the differences between "working space" profiles like sRGB and AdobeRGB and "device specific" profiles like the one you created for your monitor. This link will help explain the differences … http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13605.html

Bill
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Jeff
Nov 21, 2005
Bill Hilton wrote:

Yes, the differences between "working space" profiles like sRGB and AdobeRGB and "device specific" profiles like the one you created for your monitor. This link will help explain the differences … http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13605.html

Bill

Bill, Many thanks for the reply.
That explains it perfectly!

Thanks too for that link.

That’s one more small step on the road to conquering Photoshop 🙂

Cheers,

Jeff

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