ICM = ICC? (color calibration trouble w/ Adobe Gamma)

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Matthew.DelVecchio
Jul 20, 2005
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i recently bought a Hynundai L90D+ digital LCD panel, which i have plugged in to my geforce4 via a DVI cable. after reading a text on color management, i thought i would do some poor-man’s calibration, via Adobe’s Gamma tool. (id rather hold off on buying monitor calibration hardware/software until after i see results from the AG tool, which is better than doing nothing at all). i am running windows xp.

trying to use Adobe Gamma to calibrate the monitor. from the book ive read, the first step is to begin by loading the monitor’s provided ICC profile as a starting point, and tweak it from there using the utility. Hyundai provides this file:

L90DPD.ICM
(L90DPA.ICM too, which i assume is for the analog cable use)

….however when i load it, AG kicks me this message:

"The selected profile is not a legal RGB display profile"

i am sure this is related to another error i get when i load CS2 and have the same profile set as my default (via windows):

The monitor profile "Colorific: PnP VESA DDC – HYUNDAI ImageQuest L90D Digital" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software.

any idea whats up? is it because this is a ".ICM" and not a ".ICC" file? are they the same things?

thanks
matt
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Guus013
Aug 2, 2005
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:35:34 -0700, Matthew.DelVecchio wrote:

i recently bought a Hynundai L90D+ digital LCD panel, which i have plugged in to my geforce4 via a DVI cable. after reading a text on color management, i thought i would do some poor-man’s calibration, via Adobe’s Gamma tool. (id rather hold off on buying monitor calibration hardware/software until after i see results from the AG tool, which is better than doing nothing at all). i am running windows xp.
trying to use Adobe Gamma to calibrate the monitor. from the book ive read, the first step is to begin by loading the monitor’s provided ICC profile as a starting point, and tweak it from there using the utility. Hyundai provides this file:

L90DPD.ICM
(L90DPA.ICM too, which i assume is for the analog cable use)
…however when i load it, AG kicks me this message:

"The selected profile is not a legal RGB display profile"
i am sure this is related to another error i get when i load CS2 and have the same profile set as my default (via windows):

The monitor profile "Colorific: PnP VESA DDC – HYUNDAI ImageQuest L90D Digital" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software.

any idea whats up? is it because this is a ".ICM" and not a ".ICC" file? are they the same things?

thanks
matt

Well, Matt, .ICM or .ICC should not matter. Maybe the file is corrupted. You can try downloading a new one from the manufacturers website. (However most profiles are build in the driver installer.)
But if you really want to trust your display, when it comes to color, why not buy a display calibrator? They aren’t very expensive anymore, but so much more accurate.

Greets,
Guus013
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William Kazak
Sep 17, 2005
Can you recommend a display calibrator and a place to buy it? You mean monitor calibration tool?
Is that correct?
William
http://www.williamkazak.com

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Guus013
Sep 18, 2005
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:51:07 +0000, William Kazak wrote:

Can you recommend a display calibrator and a place to buy it? You mean monitor calibration tool?
Is that correct?
William
http://www.williamkazak.com

Yes, and I would recommend the Optix from X-Rite or the Eye-One Display 2 from Gretag Macbeth. But to my knowledge there aren’t any ‘bad ones’ out there. The Spyder would be the cheapest. I bought my Eye-One at www.colourconfidence.com.

Greets,
Michel
WK
William Kazak
Sep 21, 2005
Thank you.
I will check it out.
William
http://www.williamkazak.com

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