Lightroom and iMac Calibration

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Idahoe
Oct 30, 2007
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I am making my first attempt to profile my monitor to the ICC profiles given from Calypso for use with my iMac G5 and Adobe Lightroom (I don’t use Photoshop and if this maneuver is pointless in Lightroom, please let me know).

I understand that without special equipment (calorimeter) I wont get the best results, but I am mainly trying to move away from Ofoto, which has returned prints with purple snow, etc.

I have downloaded the profiles (.icc) and put the profile I wanted into Library/Colorsync/profiles, but do not understand how to install this profile as the color space for my monitor or for Lightroom.

I have gone to Prefs/Monitor/Color, but the .icc does not appear there, nor do I see any option of the sort: "Install New Profile."

When I go to ColorSync Utility, I see the .icc I loaded under the "Computer" pull down, but not under the monitor pulldown.

I see no options in Lightroom to load a color space.

I may be totally missing the point of calibration, but my understanding is that I need to use an .icc provided by the company I will be printing with to modify my "neutral" monitor settings to reflect as closely as possible the settings at the printer. Furthermore, a color change within Lightroom may or may not be necessary.

Thanks in advance.
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Roy G
Oct 30, 2007
"Idahoe" wrote in message
I am making my first attempt to profile my monitor to the ICC profiles given from Calypso for use with my iMac G5 and Adobe Lightroom (I don’t use Photoshop and if this maneuver is pointless in Lightroom, please let me know).

I understand that without special equipment (calorimeter) I wont get the best results, but I am mainly trying to move away from Ofoto, which has returned prints with purple snow, etc.

I have downloaded the profiles (.icc) and put the profile I wanted into Library/Colorsync/profiles, but do not understand how to install this profile as the color space for my monitor or for Lightroom.
I have gone to Prefs/Monitor/Color, but the .icc does not appear there, nor do I see any option of the sort: "Install New Profile."
When I go to ColorSync Utility, I see the .icc I loaded under the "Computer" pull down, but not under the monitor pulldown.
I see no options in Lightroom to load a color space.

I may be totally missing the point of calibration, but my understanding is that I need to use an .icc provided by the company I will be printing with to modify my "neutral" monitor settings to reflect as closely as possible the settings at the printer. Furthermore, a color change within Lightroom may or may not be necessary.

Thanks in advance.

I don’t know anything about Lightroom or Macs, but I do think you do need to read up a bit more on the use of ICC Profiles and Colour Management, before you start messing around with your Display Settings.

From what I can gather, newish Macs have their Displays Calibrated and Profiled before leaving the factory.

A Monitor needs to be Calibrated and Profiled to ensure that the Colours you see on your display are correct, and will also display as correct on any other Calibrated and Profiled Monitor. A monitor Profile is specific to that particular Monitor.

For Printing you need to use a Printer Profile to ensure that what comes out of the printer looks the same as what you saw on your Calibrated and Profiled Monitor. The Printer can either be yours or a photo labs, but each Printer, Paper and Ink combination will require a Profile for that specific Combination.

A Working Space Profile (sRGB, Adobe RGB, Pro Foto RGB, or whatever), is used by your editing program in the background, but is not specific to any particular piece of hardware.

Most commercial labs work in the sRGB Working Space Profile, but some of the Professional Labs work in the Adobe RGB Space which has a wider Gamut.

The Lab should be able to advise you on which profile they want the Image File "Tagged" with, before you send it in.

Roy G

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