Calibrate Monitor? Adobe Gamma?

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Lori_M
Apr 26, 2004
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This is probably a really stupid question, hopefully it will make sense to someone! First of all, is the reason to calibrate your monitor so that the color you see on the screen is the same color as your print? Is there any other reason to calibrate? The reason I’m asking is because I’m having trouble calibrating mine, but I can compensate and the printouts look fine. My next question – what does Adobe Gamma do? And how do I run it?
And finally – is it true that if I have a new monitor, it doesn’t need to be calibrated? Thanks for any help!

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Gene Palmiter
Apr 26, 2004
Calibrating your monitor is the first step in getting predictable results. Adobe Gamma is better than nothing…and enough for most of us.Then you need to profile your printer and see if the prints looks like your monitor.

New monitors do need to be calibrated…each one off the production line is different. Different enough to matter? Up to you.

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This is probably a really stupid question, hopefully it will make sense to
someone! First of all, is the reason to calibrate your monitor so that the color you see on the screen is the same color as your print? Is there any other reason to calibrate? The reason I’m asking is because I’m having trouble calibrating mine, but I can compensate and the printouts look fine. My next question – what does Adobe Gamma do? And how do I run it?
And finally – is it true that if I have a new monitor, it doesn’t need to
be calibrated? Thanks for any help!
L
LenHewitt
Apr 26, 2004
is the reason to calibrate your monitor so that the color you see on the
screen is the same color as your print? <<

Yes.

Is there any other reason to calibrate? <<

It ensures what you see is the same as other folks will see on their calibrated monitors.

what does Adobe Gamma do? And how do I run it?<<

It creates a monitor profile specific to your monitor, and a LUT (look up table) for your video card.

You run Adobe Gamma from Control Panel – You need administrator privileges (and I believe Classic View in XP)

is it true that if I have a new monitor, it doesn’t need to be calibrated?
<<

No! Any manufacturer-provided monitor profile will be a generic profile and not specific to your monitor.
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John_Waller
Apr 26, 2004
(and I believe Classic View in XP)

Len,

Do you mean the Windows Classic Theme?

Adobe Gamma runs fine in XP "eye candy" theme and Classic for me on XP Pro.


Regards

John Waller
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LenHewitt
Apr 26, 2004
John,

Not running XP I can only go off what others have mentioned here.
JJ
Joanne_Jackson
Apr 26, 2004
Hello and I’m hoping someone out there can help me . I have recently purchased Creative Suite Premium as I’m taking a course and hope to get good enough to create sites, etc.

My problem is about Photoshop. The installation seemed to go fine but when I open up PS I get an error message that says: ‘The monitor profile "LG E900B gamma" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software.’ I just click on ‘use anyway’. We did run the monitor calibration to the best of our ability however it made no difference.

The problem I am encountering is my default color chip is not white. It is a pale yellow color. This is on my default swatches and I cannot pick white as there isn’t one (it says white but it’s pale yellow) And also on my color palette on the right side above the black chip is the pale yellow color.

At first I could not get a white background, but I managed to play around with the color settings and I now have a white background.

The Illustrator program works just fine and I have a white default chip so this has got me and a few other people pretty confused.

I had the same thing happen when I was using the trial version PS 7 and just thought the color was supposed to be that way due to it being a trial version.

I am not very good with technical stuff so any help anyone could provide me with would be very much appreciated. I run with XP.

Thanking you in advance and have a great day.

Joanne Jackson
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Lori_M
Apr 26, 2004
Len –
Thanks for the advice – I will try to run it tonight. I’m sure glad those of you who know it all are willing to share it with those of us who don’t!!
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Mick_Murphy
Apr 26, 2004
Joanne
You probably need to set the monitor profile you created with Adobe Gamma? as your default profile. The generic LG profiles are not good. Probably easiest thing is to rerun Adobe Gamma and make sure you tick the box which aske if you want to use it as your default profile. Alternatively you can do this in your Display Settings control panel.
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LenHewitt
Apr 26, 2004
Joanne,

Run Adobe Gamma from the Windows Control Panel and select sRGB as your starting profile. Change the text in the description box to something meaningful to you – Joanne’s Monitor? – and then follow the on-screen instructions. Finallu save your new profile to a NEW filename – This is important or you will over-write your sRGB profile.
JJ
Joanne_Jackson
Apr 26, 2004
Hello Len and Mick.

Thank you ever so much for your help. We went through your instructions and it is wonderful to see the white color chip!

Can’t thank you enough.

Have a great evening.

Joanne Jackson
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LenHewitt
Apr 27, 2004
You’re welcome, Joanne

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