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Double profile?

2011-08-07 by patop_p

Hi people, please can someone help me with this issue.

I have a Spyder 3 Elite, a Dell 3008 display and a Dell 2404 display (as secondary). I calibrated each one with the Spyder 3 Elite software. After calibrating I can see on the color management app in my control panel (using Windows 7) that both displays have an ICC profile associated with the name I gave them on the Spyder software.

The fisrt issue is that if I delete those profiles nothing happens, the colors on my screen remain the same, but if I turn calibration on and off on the system tray icon for spyder utility then the colors do change. So it seems that Utility is controlling the color managemente overriding the windows control panel app. Is this normal?

The main issue I have is using Adobe Lightroom when color correcting any picture, after getting the skin tones to where I like them I export a JPG and if I open it on a standard viewer (not color managed) the skin tones look different even exporting the JPG with sRGB settings. When I open it on photoshop the colors are the same that my raw file in Lightroom. The weird thing is that the JPG when I move it from one display to the other remains the almost the same (because of the calibration), but if I move the Lightroom window from one display to the other after about one second the colors flip, looking totally different (a lot more red) THAN THE SAME FILE on the other screen. That drives me crazy because that makes useless the secondary display feature of Lightroom.

Please help me with this. The only thing I can figure is that the OS (or the spyder utlitity) is loading the ICC profile once and then Lightroom does it another time, because the exported JPG then looks reddish on almost every screen I tested and even on paper (printed on several labs).

Thank you.

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