Re: ICM and Windows generally +[Prove it!]
Re: ICM and Windows generally +[Prove it!]
- Subject: Re: ICM and Windows generally +[Prove it!]
- From: neilB <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:06:44 +0000
Guys
I was working with Colorblind Prove it! on a friend's Vaio W2000
laptop last week, [maybe a waste of time but I could get it to
look a little better]. I'm working on persuading the guy to buy a
19 screen - but I bet this comes up again.
I could get Prove it! to load a calibration as evidenced by the
alteration in screen appearance - but could not get the video
properties to even see the Prove it! profile, never mind load it.
In fact, although the new profile was listed in Photoshop's Assign
Profile dialog, it was not even visible as a file under the file
manager [in a regular window] and could not be found by a search.
Rather confusingly a Windows search finds the Prove it!
calibration instead - which is [as a default] saved under the same
name under Prove it! settings.
Changing the profile name before saving from Prove it! does not
help here - Photoshop and Prove it! can see the profile but not
the system. Must be an internal / external name deal but of course
Steve didn't make Colorthink for the pc! And there's nothing else
I know of to tell me the internal name.
Could the PC somehow be replacing the sRGB profile with the Prove
it! one and not altering the external name?
Furthermore, I could not get Win to load the calibration on
startup, so had to setup Prove it! as a start up program - on log
in. Useful but frustrating.
It's not impressive the way Windows deals with all this, I've had
exactly the same problem with OptiCal on Win 2K. Plainly I cannot
edit the register since the file system can't see the profile.
Photoshop 6 shows sRGB as the monitor profile - and there seems to
be nowhere else, other than the video properties, to select the
Prove it! profile. [and I could not see it there].
Ain't Windows nice for this sort of work!
Thanks so much
neilB
Neil Barstow