Forum: Photography


Subject: Color Settings In Photoshop

Michelle A. opened this issue on Jul 23, 2003 ยท 16 posts


Misha883 posted Thu, 24 July 2003 at 7:54 AM

I think we may be building a tutorial here... But so far all of the words are not coming together. I use the Adobe Gamma applet in the control panel to adjust monitor. It only seems to affect the "main" monitor in a dual monitor setup. The "Display" applet in the control panel does have advanced settings which seem to allow setting color balance and gamma for each monitor individually. I have no idea how this interacts with the Adobe applet. This Display dialog also "associates color profiles with this device." Several can be loaded, but one is set as default. I have no idea how this interacts with the gamuts used in Photoshop, or the web browser for that matter. Each monitor also has hardware controls for setting brightness, contrast, color balance, and whitepoint temperature. I set contrast to maximum as instructed by Adobe. I set brightness using a set of gray-scale patches. The color balance uses factory defaults. For whitepoint temperature, I tend to use the warmest of the three settings, as the others look too blue for me. My room lighting is a combination of daylight and crappy shop flourescent, which of course varies as the sun goes down. There is an Epson inkjet printer that has its own set of controls depending on what paper I'm using. I really don't print much, but tend to always use the same premium glossy paper. There is a checkbox labeled something obscure like "Color Enhancement" with no documentation anywhere that I can find. The Nikon film scanner, and the HP flatbed, may have their own controls hidden somewhere... After all of this... do ANY of the pics in my Gallery look OK?