RE: Calibrating & Profiling Two Displays
RE: Calibrating & Profiling Two Displays
- Subject: RE: Calibrating & Profiling Two Displays
- From: "Michael Fox Photography News Account" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:55:11 -0700
- Organization: Michael Fox Photography
One of the previous posts mentioned that Windows XP will only allow two
monitor profiles if the machine has two separate display adapters (not a
single adapter which is dual-headed).
Whoever it was that posted that, are you sure?
My reason for asking - I have a single video card which is dual-head.
Monaco Profiler warns me that my second monitor does not have a profile. I
had heard about the above problem before so I didn't attempt to profile the
2nd monitor for fear of goofing something up. Now, I'm wondering if it is
possible.
I have searched the Microsoft website and can not find any articles that
address this issue one way or the other.
Can someone point me to a source?
Thanks,
Michael
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[mailto:colorsync-users-bounces+news=email@hidden] On
Behalf Of David Burren
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:26 AM
To: David Harradine
Cc: Colour Sync List
Subject: Re: Calibrating & Profiling Two Displays
On 03/06/2005, at 6:24 PM, David Harradine wrote:
>
> Every other app (that I use) only sees the power book profile,
> regardless of
> which monitor is displaying the image. The way I get around it when
> using
> Illustrator and InDesign is to run my LaCie profile on both
> monitors, which
> makes the power book look pretty bad, but now all app's honour the
> LaCie.
Actually I think you'll find most CM software uses the profile of the
primary monitor (the one with the status bar). For this reason I
have the desktop monitor as primary (I have the same 'book as you).
That way each monitor has its own profile and software like Photoshop
will do the right thing, and at least you get to choose which monitor/
profile will be the default for the other apps.
OSX recognises the external monitor and uses that to restore the
appropriate monitor arrangement, so you can plug into different
monitors at different desks and have different layouts. I work in
two offices as well as mobile so I use this a lot (combined with
saving appropriate Workspace definitions in the Adobe apps).
> Since loading 10.4 I've noticed Preview can also now handle 2
> profiles.
I just upgraded a week ago (waited for 10.4.1), and the first thing I
noticed was that when an external display is connected, Tiger not
only remembers the right profile (Panther managed this) but also
loads the associated LUT. In Panther you had to select Display
Preferences and switch to a different profile and then back again,
which rather spoiled the whole thing.
Quite a few things were quietly fixed in 10.4!
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David Burren
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