Simon Leibowitz
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What amazing knowledge, thanks.
Not my knowledge. i just borrowed it from smarter people.
If I have understood the gist correctly, it seems as though PS7 by default is only offering up this rather dated version of the sRGB profile. I have now realised that when I select the advance option in PS7 colour settings I get a much bigger choice of profiles, including the later sRGB one as you have described.
The sRGB one is just an Apple one created for Apple's OS, etc. The differences are very, very minimal (different CMMs to differentiate between the PC and Mac system based CMMs, etc.)
What's the difference between the following two profile locations ?
OS>Library>Colorsync>Profiles>
(contains various folders like, Lyson, Nikon, etc then another called PROFILES (again), then a load of other profiles and a folder called RECOMMENDED and this seems to be the source of most of the PS settings profiles (RGB + CMYK at least))
Then,
OSX>System>Library>Colorsync>Profiles
(containing a short list of mainly 'generic' profiles
Why the two locations ? What's the best way to organise profiles? What governs which profiles appear in which drop down selections?
My but you are a curious bug aren't you.
The OSX>System>Library>Colorsync>Profiles is just that: OS system based profiles which will regenerate themselves even if deleted (Generic Lab, CMYK, RGB, Gray and, funny enough, sRGB for the Web). These are default palettes for the OS for specific tasks. An OS has to start somewhere.
The OS>Library>Colorsync>Profiles> is a place where applications are supposed to dump their application specific profiles. Many don't and instead put their own profiles in other stupid places. Makes the trip much more convoluted than necessary.
There's also the Users>'username'>library>Colorsync>Profiles folder. Depending on your user/admin privileges you will also find profiles here which the 'user' is not allowed to dump in the other two locales.
Basically if you only work in OSX you can put everything (except the default sys profiles) in the OS>Library>Colorsync>Profiles and that makes them available to everyone using the computer except Classic Applications.
Me: I use a lot of Classic functions so I put an OS9>SystemFolder>ColorsyncProfilesFolder alias in the OSX>Library>Colorsync>Profiles.
I then dump everything into the one Classic folder.
Works for me. Some others who have done this have had problems with some apps: like Epson looking for it's own...but PShop is fine for routing profiles. The advanced button actually tells it to follow the profile pipeline (all available). After any bugs you might find are worked out (some apps don't like this), live becomes a lot more simple. (I hate dups, multiple profiles all over the place...
Anyway...hope that helps.
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