Setting ICM File

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Mike Latondresse
Nov 24, 2003
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I profiled my monitor using Adobe Gamma and then put the resulting file in the Control Panel/Display/etc/etc as the default profile. I then noticed that Gamma had provided a start-up loader that obviously loads this new icm file as well. Have I done wrong and should I change something? Thanks.
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Mike Russell
Nov 24, 2003
Mike Latondresse wrote:
I profiled my monitor using Adobe Gamma and then put the resulting file in the Control Panel/Display/etc/etc as the default profile. I then noticed that Gamma had provided a start-up loader that obviously loads this new icm file as well. Have I done wrong and should I change something? Thanks.

This should not be a problem.

The Adobe Gamma control panel sets the "Adobe Monitor Settings" profile automatically, so there is no need for you do do it, but no harm either. At startup, Adobe Gamma also modifies your video card settings to match the color temperature and gamma settings that you specified earlier.

On a related subject, it is relatively easy to cross your profiling wires when setting up your printer. If the driver is already configured to go through a system profile, and you also tell Photoshop to print to that profile, you my get a double correction. I suspect that many people who get a magenta cast with Epson printouts are doing this.
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