Datacolor User to User Support Group.

With respect to the first issue, it is normal that the Windows color management module’s control will be overridden by the Spyder software.  

With respect to the second issue, others may have a more detailed and accurate explanation for all the elements of your issue; but I would suggest to you that, when you view an image from within a color managed or color management supporting application, the colors you see cannot guaranteed with any reliability to be the same when that image is viewed in a non-color managed or color management supported viewer or program. Since the non-color managed viewer or program does not use or know how to use color profiles in rendering the image, it often will assume some default color space like sRGB to render images regardless of the image files tagged color profile which will result in a different rendering rendering of the colors and color values from that which a color managed viewer or program would produce; but it is not necessarily the case that the assumed default non-color managed viewer or program will assume any standardized color space profile – let alone sRGB.  If it assumes some other working color space such as Adobe RGB 1998 or a proprietary version of sRGB, even an imported jpg file with sRGB settings could be rendered differently than it was in the original viewer or program.

I have no answer to why the Lightroom window is not rendered similarly in the two calibrated and profiled monitor displays when it is moved from one monitor to the other or why it would “flip” after a second or two duration.  Are you saying that the window display in the first few seconds of its being moved looks the same one the second monitor as it does on the first but then after a few seconds changes color; or are you saying that the image in the Lightroom window changes colors when the window is moved?  If it is the latter, then it would appear that the Lightroom program uses the monitor color profile of the primary monitor or the first monitor that it is opened up in during a session as its operative color profile for the images in its window; and moving the window to a second monitor display which may be characterized by a slightly different color profile will result the image being rendered in accordance with a color profile that is not the one that it is tagged with even though the Lightroom window per se may be rendered correctly using the new color profile.

From: patop_p 
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 7:18 PM
To: datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [datacolor_group] Double profile?

  
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.