Re: Question: monitor calibration tools, ICC scans
Re: Question: monitor calibration tools, ICC scans
- Subject: Re: Question: monitor calibration tools, ICC scans
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:59:44 -0400
Profile City's ICC diplay is a nice tool, and works with a wide range of
instruments. You'll certainly want to have a calibrated display in your CMS
chain. As far as color temperatures and gamma, that is a topic of
continuing discussion. Standard pre-press dictates 50000K at a gamma of
1.8, but some users find that a color temp of 65000K gives a better match
to their proofs. All personal preference. One profile should be good for
both RGB and CMYK work. You're just bring your monitor to a given standard.
Photoshop will change the display based on whatever CMYK profile is loaded
or RGB space you are working in. The Adobe gamma control panel is kind of a
joke, but better than nothing I guess. Disable it in Extensions manager.
Sounds like you're on the right track. Next you'll want to profile your
output device, if you have one. That gets more expensive, but there are a
myriad of on-line businesses that offer output profiling for a nominal
charge.
-eric-