How can I calibrate my monitor with Photoshop CS3

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edgar galan
Jun 19, 2007
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I have installed Adobe Photoshop CS3 on my Windows XP system. but adobe gamma does not appear in my control panel.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone know of a solution for to calibrate my monitor with Photoshop CS3
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Jun 19, 2007
Adobe Gamma is no longer distributed with Photoshop. Best advice (and seemingly adobes wish) is to go buy a hardware calibrator.
EG
edgar galan
Jun 19, 2007
Thanks for your information… does you now which software (SOFTWARE) like adobe gamma can I buy?
MV
Mathias_Vejerslev
Jun 19, 2007
There’s a free alternative out there called QuickGamma (google).
Jun 19, 2007
Buy hardware: A colorimetre.
EG
edgar galan
Jun 19, 2007
Thanks but software is less expensive than hardware so I will tried QuickGamma
JW
John_Waller
Jun 19, 2007
Thanks but software is less expensive than hardware so I will tried QuickGamma

Adobe dropped Adobe Gamma for a reason.

If you want to calibrate your monitor, you presumably want to do it accurately and reliably to get the best results from your equipment setup.

Hardware will give accurate, reliable results and does not rely on the subjective human eye (unlike software).

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John Waller
JJ
John_Joslin
Jun 19, 2007
But if your eye is true then you don’t need hardware!

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
MV
Mathias_Vejerslev
Jun 19, 2007
But how do you measure if your eye is true?
JJ
John_Joslin
Jun 19, 2007
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

If the output matches the input, it worked.
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Jun 20, 2007
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chrisjbirchall
Jun 20, 2007
If you have a previous version such as CS2, reinstalling it will plant Adobe Gamma back on your machine.

Many many professionals find they can calibrate very well thank you using Adobe Gamma. Shame on Adobe for taking away that choice.
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LenHewitt
Jun 20, 2007
Chris,

Shame on Adobe for taking away that choice.<<

I suspect Adobe’s reasoning was based on the fact that Adobe Gamma is not really suitable for use with LCD monitors.
JJ
John_Joslin
Jun 20, 2007
I suspect Adobe’s reasoning was based on the fact that Adobe Gamma is not really suitable for use with LCD monitors.

So they should phase it out only when there are no CRT monitors left in use, not just because they all have the latest and greatest LCDs in Adobe Towers.

It could be in the Goodies folder on the disk.
EG
edgar galan
Jun 20, 2007
Then in this case there, Adobe also had to create another software for screens LCD as a solution

Nom I use QuickGamma

Thanks for yours commentaries
MV
Mathias_Vejerslev
Jun 20, 2007
If enough people bark that message at them, I’m sure they will. But I don’t see that happening. Besides, experts agree that visual calibration is not actually ‘calibration’, except perhaps to your particular set of eyes.
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chrisjbirchall
Jun 20, 2007
visual calibration is not actually ‘calibration’, except perhaps to your particular set of eyes.

My "particular set of eyes" visually calibrates my monitors to a known good print from FujiFilm’s known good calibration file printed by my photo lab.

The file is dropped into my regular order at least once every two weeks. It serves two purposes: 1: If it comes back from the lab looking any different to last week’s, then the lab gets a rollicking (only once in three years). 2: It gives me a "constant" against which to calibrate my monitor.

Photography is a visual medium, therefore I see nothing wrong in visually carrying out the calibration. And it doesn’t matter if my "particular set of eyes" happens to differ from the next person’s – so long as the monitor and control print concur, they are calibrated.

As for the CRT/LCD thing. I’m just hoping professional flat screens such as the Eizo ColourEdge range have dropped in price by the time my faithful CRTs give up the ghost.

Chris.
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Buko
Jun 20, 2007
A professional will want the best calibration possible. That means a hardware calibrator.

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