Colour Profiles
How do I setup my display colour profile? It seems like an impossible circle.
I could scan a photo, and adjust the screen colour till it matches, but what if my scanner colour is not set correctly !!!
The reason I ask is because I have just edited the apple "graphite" wallpaper, and it looked grey in photoshop, but has a very definate blue tinge when its on the desktop.
Where do I start ?
I could scan a photo, and adjust the screen colour till it matches, but what if my scanner colour is not set correctly !!!
The reason I ask is because I have just edited the apple "graphite" wallpaper, and it looked grey in photoshop, but has a very definate blue tinge when its on the desktop.
Where do I start ?
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I used Apple's ColorSync control panel.
Part 1:
If your scanner is relatively new, you can download scanner profiles from it's website. (My Epson 2400 installed them from the CD) Once you download them, you can add the profile to the "INPUT" menu of ColorSync. Next, you calibrate your monitor using the monitors control panel and save the new calibration. Back into ColorSync, you can select the new monitor profile under "DISPLAY". Third step it so download a profile for your printer and add that to "OUTPUT". Well, if you want to print
Part 2:
In Photoshop and under the EDIT menu, choose color settings. Instead of using Adobe RGB, change it to ColorSync. If you want great prints, you will also have to disable color management in the PRINT menu. One last thing in Photoshop. You want to go to VIEW -> PROOF SETUP -> custom... and select "WORKING RGB-[your screen profile name]".
That should do it and works great for me.
Maybe if you post screenshots of colorsync I could help.
I dunno. Just an idea.
Its very hard to distinguish the horisontal grey lines like the ones at the very bottom of the camino window, but I think thats just one of the downsides to having a LCD / TFT screen. Different viewing angles make a massive difference in the contrast, and there is no manual contrast setting.