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Tyler Re: How Photoshop uses monitor profile?

2005-09-13 by wwodets

Tyler-  If I'm understanding you correctly, I looked there and every 
monitor profile in the color directory is listed there (as well as a 
lot of other profiles for all sorts of things).

Walt


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
> All you have to do to verify that PS is using your monitor profile 
is
> to scroll up to monitor in your RGB PS color setting and see if it
> shows there. However, do not select it, that would set it as your
> working space, and set you back several years.
> Tyler
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "wwodets"
> <odets@c...> wrote:
> > In corresponding with Steve on various monitor issues, he asked 
if I 
> > was sure that PS was actually using my i1 monitor profile.  I had 
> > always assumed that PS used the Windows system setting for the 
monitor 
> > profile.  In researching this it appears this may not be the 
case.  
> > Although Adobe Gamma does not load on startup of Windows, it 
appears 
> > that it may b necessary to use Adobe Gamma to specify which ICC 
profile 
> > to use.  See Adobe document 321608 for the full story.  In 
spending an 
> > hour on the phone with Adobe, they are confused about how to 
specify 
> > the profile for PS or how to determine which monitor profile PS 
is 
> > actually using.
> > 
> > Clearly I am looking at PS through the profile, which affects the 
> > screen and all programs at startup.  But does PS need to know the 
> > profile to translate between working space and screen view, etc.?

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