Monitor Profiles

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wingspar
May 23, 2007
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I’ve been using CS3 for about a week now. I come from years of working with Paint Shop Pro.

I calibrate my LaCie monitor with a Monaco Optix, and just now calibrated my monitor and created a new profile. What I did in CS3 is to go to Edit > Color Settings and changed Working Spaces RGB to the monitor profile I just created.

1. Did I do this correctly?
2. Is there a way to force CS3 to see and use the most current monitor profile?

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chrisjbirchall
May 23, 2007
The monitor profile should never be used as your working space.
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wingspar
May 23, 2007
Thank you. I got a weird message about deleting embedded profiles the first time I opened an image I’d already worked on, so I put it back to the default RGB till I got an answer.

Is there a place in CS3 I should input my monitor profile, or are monitor profiles irrelevant while working in CS3?
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Rob_Keijzer
May 24, 2007
Usually Ps commits to the icc profile of the Operating System.

Check this: is the new profile the active one? (right click desktop-Properties-settings-advanced-color management) the file you created should be highlighted.

Next, in Ps, Edit, Color Settings, click on workin spaces RGB, so it opens and, without changing the settings check if the same file is to the right of "Monitor".

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wingspar
May 24, 2007
Yes, the same file is to the right of Monitor in that drop down box. I just calibrated my monitor yesterday, and that profile is there next to Monitor in that drop down box.

I did not choose it just now, but left it at the default sRGB IEC61966-2.1
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wingspar
May 25, 2007
Do I have the right settings? Am I doing this right?
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Juergen Heinzl
May 25, 2007
schrieb:
Do I have the right settings? Am I doing this right?

Basically it is such that Photoshop does not care about your monitor profile as how colour values are being adjusted before ending up as pixels on the monitor is something Photoshop does not care that much.

As far as your monitor is concerned you may, depending on what software came with your calibration hardware, explicitly load a profile. For instance this is what happens here when I log in into my account under which I do my photography related stuff.

Alternatively you can assign a default profile, the one you created when you calibrated your monitor, which then is used always (I prefer darker colours for everyday work and use a loader instead). This is what you do via the OS dialog, not Photoshop.

For work with Photoshop you may prefer Adobe RGB:1998 within PS whereby you can assign a profile if an image does not contain one or convert an embedded profile to Adobe RGB:1998.

BTW on paper or on your monitor you may not see a difference between sRGB and Adobe RGB:1998 and if you more often need sRGB when it comes to (let) make prints use sRGB in PS.

So to cut a long story short — profile your monitor -> save as foo.icc -> either use a loader or set as default profile -> done, don’t change any monitor settings afterwards and repeat in regular intervals.

Cheers,
Juergen
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ID._Awe
May 26, 2007
wingspar: just did this also, make sure that you have deleted ‘Adobe Gamma Loader’ from the startup menu and only use ‘Monaco Gamma’ to load the monitor profile.

In PS, set the RGB space to Adobe RGB, not your monitor.
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wingspar
May 26, 2007
I have seen people talking about deleting Adobe Gamma Loader’ from the startup menu many times before, but I don’t see anything about Adobe Gamma Loader at all in my startup menu. If it’s loaded on my computer, and taking over my Monaco profile, where do I look for it?

I have the RGB space set to the default sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Is there a reason I would use the Adobe RGB? Everything I do from the camera to the final image is always done in sRGB.
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Fred_Nirque
May 26, 2007
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Fred_Nirque
May 26, 2007
Go Start>Run then type: msconfig
Go to the startup tab and uncheck Adobe Gamma
Reboot and do the logical things to whatever prompts pop up.
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wingspar
May 26, 2007
Just did that. There is no Adobe Gamma in the Startup. Monaco Gamma is there, and checked.

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