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Has anyone had any experience using Vista's Color Management? I've got 
PrintFix Pro & Spyder2Pro, all drivers & software are working (fairly) 
successfully, but I am unsure as to what I should be doing with Vista's 
color management's settings, both before and after calibrating. 

Any suggestions (or better still step-by-step instructions) will be 
greatly appreciated.

--- 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).

Sorry - what I actually meant was what settings should I be setting in 
Vista, both before and after calibrating. 

I want to calibrate my monitor - so before calibrating do I go into 
Vista Color Management and set it to 'Use my settings' and then remove 
any existing profiles? 

After calibrating my monitor I noticed that Colorvision software starts 
up automatically with Vista and loads the profile. This is what I do 
not understand - is Vista Color Management also loading the new profile 
as well?

What I am specifically trying to avoid is Vista using a profile as well 
as Colorvision using a profile (if that is even possible).