Ahh.... Windows 95 and up ships with Kodak Professional Color Management. In 98 and up it is integrated into the system. Of course you have to set it up to your card and monitor. If you are using a Mac they presume you are using their card and monitor, Windows can not do that. You probably will have to download profiles for both your card, and your monitor, from the vendors site. And, if your equipment is more than a couple of years old, nobody thought you were going to use this stuff back than anyway unless you bought the absolute highest-end components and you can not usually find ICC profiles. As I understand it if you want there highest level of color correction you have to recalibrate your system everytime you turn it on anyway, but for most use it only needs to be tweeked now and then.
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:03 AM Subject: Re: Displaying images on the web > Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi Dave, > > Surely you change the monitor gamma setting in the OS and not the > application?? > > Cotty< > > not in Windows. that is why it is so complicated. the OS itself doesn't > care and doesn't use anything. the video card device driver can be > configured, but that is specific to the hardware vendor's device drivers > and optional. many don't have any such setting. that is why Adobe invented > the Adobe Gamma program. it runs at startup and stays resident to load a > pre-stored monitor profile created that has the correct gamma. you have to > create that profile with another Adobe-supplied part of Adobe Gamma. it is > completely up to applications and device drivers to load and use color > profiles in Windows. something like Adobe Gamma should have been part of > the OS. that is why there are only a handful of image editing programs that > can be used for serious photographic manipulation in Windows. they are the > ones that know what color profile has been loaded for a monitor and > actually use it when displaying images. > > Herb.... >
