Re: electron blues and colorvison spyder
Re: electron blues and colorvison spyder
- Subject: Re: electron blues and colorvison spyder
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:10:43 EDT
In a message dated 4/24/01 10:34:54 AM, email@hidden writes:
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now I'm confused
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DTEK, a UK ColorVision importer, told me that PhotoCal does not
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include the "startup utility feature" to load an LUT to the card
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but relies upon the SW [eg Photoshop's "display using monitor
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compensation" facility to load the profile.
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I was told that only OptiCal can actually load a CLUT to the
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card. [In the same way that Prove it! does]
They are in error. The startup utility is not needed to load the profile, in
fact I often recommend deactivating it. Simply having the profile selected as
your current monitor profile in the Monitor's control panel will be
sufficient to get it loaded at startup. Having the OptiCal startup active
goes against this standard by loading, not your currenlty selected monitor
profile, but the *newest OptiCal* profile. So a user could build one OptiCal
profile, switch to PhotoCal, and be unaware that as long as the OptiCal
startup was active, that aging OptiCal profile, not your latest PhotoCal
profile, would be loaded each time the machine restarted. Other scenarios
would also be affected by this unique choice in profiles... all this assumes
a Mac platform, this being the ColorSync list.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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