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Monitor calibration and color managed workflow question
Hi,
I bought a Colorvision Spyder and calibrated my monitor. It really helped. However, I am not really sure how this works and I fear I might be double-color-managing. The Spyder generates an ICC profile, puts it somewhere into windows directory and registers it with the graphics card. On startup the ProfileChooser takes the default profile and loads it into graphics card. That means that I am able to see accurate colors with applications that are not color managed - web browser, ... What I do not understand is what happens when I edit the photo in Photoshop Elements (I do not have the 'big' PS, so I am not sure whether this is different there). If it also uses the default profile taken from windows, I get double color-managing. And I think this is really the case - when I open the same image in the PSE and in the default browser, it looks that the result is not the same - there are subtle differences in skin tones. How is this supposed to work? Is there any way to have both the non-managed and managed applications to display the same (i.e. let the Profile Chooser load the lookup tables and tell the Photoshop etc. to use sRGB or whatever the display expects when the conversion is done down in the LUT)? Or does the PSE _always_ use the default monitor profile, whatever that is? Thanks -- Stano |
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