RE: ICM and Windows generally +[Prove it!]
RE: ICM and Windows generally +[Prove it!]
- Subject: RE: ICM and Windows generally +[Prove it!]
- From: "Matt Hagadorn" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:21:31 -0400
neilB Wrote:
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I could get Prove it! to load a calibration as evidenced by the
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alteration in screen appearance - but could not get the video
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properties to even see the Prove it! profile, never mind load it.
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In fact, although the new profile was listed in Photoshop's Assign
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Profile dialog, it was not even visible as a file under the file
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manager [in a regular window] and could not be found by a search.
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Rather confusingly a Windows search finds the Prove it!
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calibration instead - which is [as a default] saved under the same
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name under Prove it! settings.
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Changing the profile name before saving from Prove it! does not
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help here - Photoshop and Prove it! can see the profile but not
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the system. Must be an internal / external name deal but of course
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Steve didn't make Colorthink for the pc! And there's nothing else
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I know of to tell me the internal name.
Profiles should be saved with a .icc or .icm file extension. Otherwise
Windows doesn't know they're profiles. You can save them anywhere you like,
then right-click the file in Explorer and select "Install Profile." This
will conveniently copy the profile to the
\Winnt\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color folder, and you should then be able to
associate it with your monitor in the display's Color Management tab. You
can also associate the profile to your display by right-clicking the profile
and select Associate...
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Could the PC somehow be replacing the sRGB profile with the Prove
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it! one and not altering the external name?
Windows won't do this, and I would hope Prove-it wouldn't, either.
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Furthermore, I could not get Win to load the calibration on
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startup, so had to setup Prove it! as a start up program - on log
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in. Useful but frustrating.
Yes, a third-party startup program (what you might refer to as an 'init' in
the Mac world) is required to load the gamma adjustments into the video
card. The profiling apps from ColorVision and Monaco I've worked with (not
to mention Adobe Gamma) take care of setting this up for you.
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It's not impressive the way Windows deals with all this, I've had
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exactly the same problem with OptiCal on Win 2K. Plainly I cannot
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edit the register since the file system can't see the profile.
Windows is able to deal with profiles well enough. It sounds more like
Prove-It might not be be saving them with the correct file extension.
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Photoshop 6 shows sRGB as the monitor profile - and there seems to
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be nowhere else, other than the video properties, to select the
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Prove it! profile. [and I could not see it there].
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The Display Properties is where monitor profiles are associated with your
display. Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Display to bring up the
Display Properties. Click the Settings tab, then Advanced. Click the Color
Management tab, select your profile and click Set As Default. If it doesn't
show up in the list (because you didn't install it with the methods
described earlier), you can also click the Add... button and browse for it
on your hard drive.
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Ain't Windows nice for this sort of work!
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Works fine in my experience. I've heard confusion on this list and others
from Mac users trying to figure out how their profiles and color preferences
are applied in the ColorSync control panel. It all depends on what you're
used to, I guess.
Matt Hagadorn
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