Datacolor User to User Support Group.

It just might be because the file coming from your camera is tagged with an
embedded sRGB color profile for starters; and when you go to the Vista Color
Management module in the Control Panel  and essentially turn off the Spyder
generated color profile for your monitor and switch on the sRGB color
monitor profile in Vista, the operating system will be using the sRGB
monitor profile as its default monitor color space for all applications -
those that support color management and those that do not.  Moreover, those
applications that do support color management will read the tagged sRGB
profile that comes with the file and send it to the color management engine
provided by the operating system which will then convert the color values in
the files embedded sRGB color space into values in the monitor's  profiled
color space, which is also sRGB so that there will be no difference.
Moreover, most applications that do not support color management tend to
default to sRGB color spaces anyway.

 

In short, what you have done is effectively removed Spyder and its generated
monitor profile from the equation as if you never had or used the Spyder
application in the first place.  What you are left with is a sRGB file that
is being display  on a monitor that is  characterized by a sRGB profile;
hence it should appear the same on the monitor display regardless of whether
or not the image editing program is a color management supported one or is
not a color management supported one.  The real fun begins if you send a
sRGB tagged file to be displayed on a monitor whose color space is not sRGB.

 

 

From: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Danko
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:44 PM
To: colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [colorvision_group] Re: Color manged apps appear "saturated"

 

> 
> Could it be that the image being viewed has no profile, so you are viewing
the image through Photoshop's default working space? Have you tried
Assigning a profile to the image to fix the color problem?
>

No the images are all from my Nikon D300 with sRGB color space. Interesting
thing is if I set assign the profile using the spyder util, then go into
color settings in vista's control panel and change from the spyder generated
profile to sRGB, everything looks the same in color managed and non
colormanaged applications. I guess I am struggling why there is such a
difference in my color managed applications. Seems this would be impossible
to work with! I just want my monitor to show accurate color.