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--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:

> > 
> > There was a lot of PR about the new color management engine in 
Vista for the 
> year before its release, but most of it does not actually apply to 
the 
> released product. Vista defaults to the same ICM2 calls and 
settings as XP (and 2000, 
> and Win98...), and there is not really any way for users to access 
anything 
> more, so its basicly a matter of what minor fixes or bugs were 
introduced. 
> 


This is quite interesting. From your description it sounds like not 
much has changed in the ICM. I was under impression that apart from 
bug fixes the ICM inside Vista's WCS now also supports things like 
ICC V4 (honestly, I do not know if it matters much for monitor 
calibration, but anyway). I wonder if the updated ICM offer any real 
benefits in terms of monitor calibration and the display accuracy? 

A little bacground - I am among those people on WIndows XP that have 
problems with the way Lightroom displays the image in the Develop 
screen as opposed to the the way the image looks in the exported file 
in another color managed app (the difference with my setup is mostly 
in deep blacks under certain develop setting - this all with Spyder 
calibrated monitor etc.) - Adobe seems to be pointing the finger at 
the Windows ICM that LR uses to generate its on-screen previews.  
Initially I thought that Vista might cure this due to its upgraded 
ICM, but I have seen reports that the same problems occur in LR also 
under Vista. This and what you are saying seems to suggest that Vista 
does not offer any improvement (at least as far as LR is concerned).