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Colour Calibration in Windows 7

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September 29, 2014 4:26:52 PM

Hi,

I'm having a problem with colour calibration in Win7 on a Lenovo ThinkPad. The screen is obviously not going to be as good as a proper colour calibrated display but for a laptop screen it should give good enough - and constant - results.

I've got some ICC/ICM profiles from the lenovo forums, and I have installed one by going
Control Panel > Color Management > "Use my settings" > Add.. > Set as default

I have then rebooted, and enabled colour management in firefox - great, the overly bright logo changes to a more normal shade of orange. I then go into photoshop with a screenshot of the photoshop logo. It is unduly washed out.

To check its not the screenshot causing the issue I save an image and open it in both applications. Firefox with colour management enabled is much more saturated.

If I go into Photoshop and use the monitor profile as "proof" then the image saturation jumps up. Photoshop by default displays in Adobe RGB

My question is as follows; how can my monitor display beyond Adobe RGB, and why are firefox and Photoshop not displaying the same calibrated images?

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October 2, 2014 7:13:00 AM

Have you calibrated your monitor correctly? I mean with a calibration tool like Spyder4 or so?
Because otherwhise you can't expect to have a correct color management automatically...
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October 2, 2014 8:52:39 AM

Hi,

This is a laptop (thinkpad) so its not used for proofing, because of that I haven't used a spyder (I do own one but its a bit OTT I just want reasonable colour and calibration across apps)

What I do have is two separate ICC/ICM files somebody else created on the same model which both give similar and better results. My issue is how it is being used across different applications. I realise somebody else's profile is only going to be 95% accurate, but its a lot better than the garbage that comes as default which is like wwatching cartoons 24/7 because of the wide gamut
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October 17, 2014 1:05:47 AM

Well first of all: Not all software is color managed.

But anyway, I don't understand why you can't just calibrate with your Spyder then.
It will give you the result you want...
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