Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <dfaprinting@...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Husband"
> <tom.husband@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Roy.  I did that and Photoshop doesn't recognize it.  It doesn't
> > appear at all in any of the profile conversion pull downs.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> 
> 
> I just copied two profiles into system32->spool->drivers->color and
> CS2 only sees the RGB type of profile. The gray type does not show up.
> And this only works for some applications, others will require that
> the profile is installed to be able to use it. I think Nikon Capture
> is one of those that requires profiles to be installed.
>

I think there are a number of issues that are confusing the situation.

1) as mentioned before the right-click install doesn't work.  I'm pretty sure
just moving the .icc file to the correct folder is sufficient.

2) there are two names associated with an icc profile. There's the filename 
and there's an internal name which is set when the profile is made.  
PS always shows the internal name so changing the filename has no effect
on what you see in PS.   To get different names rename the original data file 
with your desired name and then create the icc -- the internal name will 
have that name prepended with "QTR_".

3) in the PS pulldowns the profiles are grouped by type.  Mostly they are going
to be RGB profiles, so you'll see them all alphabetically.  Gray profiles are all
shown way at the bottom so you have to scroll all the way down to see them.
Since the names all have "QTR" in front there'll be an RGB section of QTR .icc
profiles and a separate grayscale section of QTR .icc profiles

I'm not sure what Nikon Capture does but I'd guess something similar to PS.
If this still causes trouble let me know.  I can try and track this down.

Roy