This is a long way of saying Win: Good for #$%"* databases. Mac: Good for pix.
Lon, who uses a PC these days, but is getting steadinly feebler. Is there such a word as "feebler"? T Rittenhouse wrote: > > 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.... > >
