Color Profile on my MacBook

I do a lot of photography and printing, so I generally keep my computer set to AdobeRGB, which produces the best printing results. However, I am not sure what Color Profile my MacBook should be set to when editing video. What do you guys think?

I don't think it really matters because you should not be relying on the colour you see on your computer screen.
In video, both the movement and the colour should be checked on a TV type monitor for errors that don't manifest on your Mac.
Ian.

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Which is correct color profile for my macbook pro?

Hey there, I make DVD's for a living and I just recieved my new 17 inch macbook pro
I am about to install photoshop and I am curious.
Which color profile is correct for video work
as in, doesnt matter if it pleases me or "looks cool"
which is the acurate color profile that i can rely on for photoshop work for video (72 dpi etc etc)
is it COLOR LCD.
or Adobe RGB (1998)

Adobe RGB is not a monitor profile.
By default, your monitor uses the "Color LCD" profile. For accurate color, I suggest you purchase a calibration device and profile your monitor using 2.2 Gamma instead of the default 1.8.
As for Photoshop, if intend to export for web purposes, your working space should be sRGB.

Color Profile on a MacBook Pro

Hi all,
I'm a novice user of Aperture and a novice user of Digital image processing as well ... so, as usual in this case, i apologize if everything i'm gonna ask, or a part of it , has been discussed in depth yet ... please point me there
I have a macbook pro and i started post processing my images with aperture in the last 3 weeks. now i've been able to connect a second monitor , a philips 107s, and i hit the common problem of different colors displayed on the 2 monitors ... i spent almost 1 day trying to make the philips match as much as possible the colors of my macbook but even if i think i reached a good matching i can still see a clear difference beetween them.
What i see is that on the macbook every image has *Much More* contrast then on the philips. I like more the way the pictures are show on the macbook then on the external philips ... but now i'm wondering wich one is correct or better i'm wondering how my pictures will appear when printed by a standard internet printing service.
I'm scared that i wasted all my time post-processing on the macbook ...
thanks in advance
Francesco

First of all, you really need to get a hardware profiling device like the EyeOne (or equivalent). That will help you get the colors to match... but even more importantly it will measure the luminance of the screen, you'll probably have to turn down one of the screens to match the other, which will also help them look the same. Because they are pretty different display types I don't think they are ever going to quite look identical though, as they have different abilities.
Now as for printing, what you really need to do there to be safe is to turn on Aperture's soft proofing view for the device you intend to print to. Then you can review your edits and see if the images will have any problems. This is also where a hardware profiler comes in handy because until your display is profiled, you really can't quite rely on even the softproofing view in Aperture (or anything else on the system).

Color profiles on LCD

I've been trying to set a custom color profile for my macbook pro LCD display from Adorama. I downloaded the icc and it shows up in color sync utility but I can't get it to select on the system preferences>displays selection screen. Does anyone know how I can select it to run on the display. THanks

If you are just needing a more pleasant viewing experience, try manually calibrating:
Open System Preferences > Displays > Color > "Calibrate..."
Then place a check on "Expert Mode". Follow through the assistant.
When prompted about "Select target gama", I recommend 2.2.
On the page "Select a target white point", uncheck "Use native white point", and move the slider until you are happy. 5000 will produce a very yellow hue, while 9000 will produce a very blue hue. Find a happy median.
Continue and finish the assistant.
Hope this helps.

Synchronizing Color Profiles of two monitors

How do i synchronize the color profile on my macbook pro with another monitor?

They are just different. Some monitors have a "control panel" (accessed by buttons on the monitor) that adjusts the color "tone" (don't know the technical term). I'm pretty sure Samsung monitors have this feature. Maybe the two monitors are set up differently.
You can also adjust the color using ColorSync feature of Mac OS X. Open System Preferences to the Displays pane. A control window opens on each display. Click on the Color tab. From there, you can calibrate the display so that they match as close as possible.
So first, adjust the color from the display, if that's possible. Then use System Preferences to get the two matched as closely as possible.

Macbook Color Profile Question

I just bought a Macbook from my cousin yesterday. It's in great shape and not very old, which is why I bought it. It's amazing how addictive it is, I've been PC person forever.
I immediately brought it home and installed all my programs, set a desktop photo, and opened photoshop. The coloring on my photos is off. I've tried using Supercal, and calibrating using the tool in the profiles, but I can't figure this out for anything. Being new to MAC, I'm just confused---
I use Firefox for my browser. The colors are perfect in it. When I change my profile and get it to somewhat make my photos look right (or like they did in my PC. All the photos seem to have like an orangey-yellowish look to them, not majorly, but editing photos isn't going to work with it like that.), then I open Firefox and my coloring is completely off on websites.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!

in short, photos can contain their own ICC (color profile). And this effects how color look on a per photo basis. instead of modifying your display color profile you need to a just or change just color profile of the photo(s) to have them render properly.
One way to tell what color profile need to be altered is to get info on that photo. you can do this in the finder, preview, photoshop. you can also use these applications to change witch ICC is used on a photo.
these apps use ICC color profiles : safari, quick time, preview, finder, quick look, photoshop
firefox dose not use the ICC color profiles attached to photos, but you can tell it to in firefox preferences. when ICC color profiles is off in firefox it's going to use the default color calibration in system preferences display
this website dose a great, but confusing job of comparing different ICC profiles. http://www.gballard.net/psd/golive_pageprofile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html
if you want to become an expert in color management you may want to check out: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3712 . it also talks about how you can use preview to change what ICC is used with a photo.
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Macbook Pro Color Profile and Calibration for Photo processing.

Hello Friends,
May be it has already discussed in many forums but somehow I got confused about different solutions of the questions and due to this asking once again here.
I am using Macbook pro of 2012 and there exist many color profiles in the Display settings.
I am a photographer who uses Photoshop for the editing as well as Canon Software.
To get the most accurate Monitor Calibration Should I use default "color LCD" profile ?
I am not using any External Calibration tool. I have manually calibrate the screen but somehow I am not 100% confident on that.
In that case should I go for default "color LCD" for my photo processing. I found some light yellow cast/warm color on that profile but I am not sure..
Any help/suggestion will be much appreciated.
I am using:- MacBook Pro + OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Warm Regards,
Ari...

Which model MacBook Pro? [EDIT] my bad, didn't see it in your original post
You mentioned that there is no error message when you try to change the profile; something is probably being reported to console though. Open Console.app (in /Applications/Utilities/) and see if anything is reported to it while you're experiencing these problems. If so, please post it here and I'll take a look at it.
Are you using the default profile that came with the machine or did you create your own by using the Calibration Assistant?
You might try opening Color Sync Utility (in /Applications/Utilities/) and verify or repair (if necessary) your color profiles.
Hope this helps....
Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 2.5 GB RAM; 17" MacBook Pro w/ 2 GB RAM - Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Macbook and color profiles?

simple question.. maybe..
i have photoshop on my macbook. the photos i work on look the same in photoshop and in preview.
when i upload them to a photo-sharing website (ala fotki.com) its much lighter, as if the color profile is completely different (in firefox & safari).
when i look at the same uploaded photo on my vaio laptop it looks exactly as in my macbook's photoshop.. whats going on here??
thanks.

I don't think you should consider yourself of the 'lucky few' crowd. You have to remember that most people come to these forums because they are having problems - and the Macbook forums are busy because a lot of people are buying them. MOST of the Macbook users are not here - prob. don't even know about these posts and are more than likely off enjoying their little books without issue.
Having a problem free Macbook puts you in the majority. Being in these forums with a problem free Macbook puts you in the minority.

Macbook pro retina color profile changes when switching from integrated to discrete

Late 2013 macbook pro retina color profile changes when auto switching from integrated to discrete graphics card. Problem started after updating to 10.9.3

Same here. Really annoying because I have my screen calibrated for photo editing, which makes it much warmer than the default color profile. A lot of websites cause the graphics cards to switch for a couple of seconds, which causes the profiles to switched back and forth a few times, everytime. Really annoying, and dissapointing to see, considering Apple released like a hundred .3 betas.
You can use gfxCardStatus to make it stay on one graphics card over the other... Just remember to change it back when you're using a program that actually needs the descrete card.

MacBook Pro A1278 Color Profiles

Hello everyone,
Today I was exploring my OS X and I accidentally changed the color profile and calibrated incorrectly. Can anyone tell me which is the default color profile of MacBook Pro A1278? Please!
Cheers,
Jimmy

Hi Andy,
Thank you! It was now default, thanks!
Cheers,
Jimmy

Color profiling and calibration in MacBook Pro

I work a lot in Photoshop with sRGB color space. Should I have this color profile set for my Mac display then (or which setting is recommended)?
Does the calibration in Mac replace an external calibration device functionality such as using e.g. Spyder4Pro?

I work a lot in Photoshop with sRGB color space. Should I have this color profile set for my Mac display then (or which setting is recommended)?
Does the calibration in Mac replace an external calibration device functionality such as using e.g. Spyder4Pro?

How to adjust the color profile on Macbook Pro/IMAC for Brother printers?

Hi,
We have both iMACs and MacbookPro w/Leopard 10.5.4 in our office. They also run the Parallels software with Windows XP. We have 2 color printers in the office, a Canon and a Brother 4070cdw. When I make a color print, the output looks very different from the 2 printers. The Brother printer produce very light copies, almost look like there's a white wash over it. I called Brother and went through all kinds of test and they finally said it's not the printer, but the color setting on the Mac. I didn't believe them at first, but then i did a test. I print a color page from the WindowsXP side on my Mac, and print the same page from the Mac side, and the results are very surprising. They look very different, like from 2 different printers; again, the one form MAc is very light.
I then opened up "system perferences" and tried to play around with the different color profiles under "Display". But the changes did not affect the print outcome much. Please help. Thank you very much.

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The new owner will have to repurchase the software, if need be, under his or her Apple ID. If you ever updated the bundled iLife applications (Garage Band, iMovie, and iPhoto) through the App Store, you can't transfer them either.
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IPhoto fix that worked for me (Coregraphics & Adobe Color Profiles issues)

Ok, I posted a few days back in reference to getting help with my iPhoto. I do apologize on the fact this is quite the long post but maybe it will be easy to understand for those who are like me and not all that computer literate. I searched all the discussions and used all the different advice from different people but had no luck. I was able to FINALLY get iPhoto up and running again last night after doing just a few simple things. Please note that this may not work for everyone. Also please note that I AM NOT an expert in dealing with computers and working with computers. It's just that my ADD kicks in when something needs fixing and I won't stop till its finished. Below are a few lines from the crash report that I was getting each time I attempted to open iPhoto from my Macbook Pro Late 2011 running 10.8.3.
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000024
VM Regions Near 0x24:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
    VM_ALLOCATE            0000000000001000-0000000000055000 [ 336K] ---/--- SM=NUL
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9678ec6c color_space_create_adobe_rgb_1998 + 28
1   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9666dd70 CGColorSpaceCreateAdobeRGB1998 + 32
2   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9642b46b CGColorSpaceCreateWithName + 652
3   com.apple.geode                         0x01079d4a +[DGColorSpace initialize] + 1018
4   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267600 _class_initialize + 305
5   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902674c8 prepareForMethodLookup + 78
6   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267337 lookUpMethod + 81
7   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902672e1 _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache3 + 47
8   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90266ac1 objc_msgSend + 81
9   com.apple.geode                         0x010798a0 +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextCached:accelerated:] + 61
10 com.apple.geode                         0x0107985e +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextWithAcceleration:] + 49
11 com.apple.RedRock                       0x02647bf6 -[Godot loadGeode] + 1261
12 com.apple.RedRock                       0x026448a8 -[Godot init] + 1571
13 com.apple.RedRock                       0x026437d2 +[Godot initGodotApp] + 108
14 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00083be8 0x55000 + 191464
15 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x0008236b 0x55000 + 185195
16 com.apple.Foundation                    0x9a3bc4cf __NSFireDelayedPerform + 413
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed1416 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 22
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed0db5 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 709
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb5bc2 __CFRunLoopRun + 1842
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb502a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb4e9b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
22 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052af5a RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
23 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052abf5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 162
24 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052ab44 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
25 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923c39aa _DPSNextEvent + 724
26 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923c31dc -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
27 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923b963c -[NSApplication run] + 855
28 com.apple.AppKit                        0x9235c666 NSApplicationMain + 1053
29 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00064c99 0x55000 + 64665
30 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x000642e5 0x55000 + 62181
-Run and attempt to repair any Color Profiles that may need to be fixed. There were 4 that could not be fixed for me. Locate these profiles and move them to your desktop (Note: I was still able to open and use all applications in my Adobe CS6 Master Collection after moving these profiles but you may want to check just to be sure if you are using Adobe).
-Even though I had done this many times, run the Disk Utility App in your Utilities Profile and Verify and Repair any permission needed (For me, I had none at this time that needed to be repaired).
-Next, I did an Apple Hardware Test. For me and the model Macbook Pro I am using, I had to restart my computer and when the screen went black for me at restart about the time the start up sound is about to come on, I pressed ALT-D. On some models you just have to press D. I did disconnect everything prior to doing this except the power cord and the Internet. I did a full AHT test that took about an hour or so. If you get an error code, be sure and right it down whereas your issue may be something different than mine and this will not apply to you. There were no problems from the test and then restarted the computer.
-At restart I decided to get into the OS X Recovery by pressing Command-R to either start from scratch or find some other way to fix the issue because I was tired of racking my brain on this and was about to throw the computer in to the wall.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 For help or questions on the OS X Recovery Process
-Once in the OS X Recovery from the Mac OS X Utilities Pane, I selected reinstall and then I selected my current Hard Drive. Luckily by doing this (not that I was aware or anything, but none of my files or folders were deleted and it only reinstalled Mountain Lion and whatever else it needed)
-This process took about an hour and once finished, I restarted my computer
-I logged back in to my account but did not attempt iPhoto at this time. Instead I immediately checked to make sure that 10.8.3 was what was reinstalled back on my Mac. I then checked for Software Updates which I had a few and installed these updates.
-I then went back to the Disk Utilities App from my Utilities folder and Verified the Disk and Disk Permission. To my surprise, many of the files that were in the iPhoto crash thread (posted above) were now showing up as needing to be repaired. I repaired what needed to be repaired.
-I verified all my Color Profiles to make sure none were showing up again (which there were none that needed to be repaired)
-I did a check check of some Adobe CS6 Apps just to verify they were opening and working correctly
-I restarted my Mac (Once again) and logged back in. I opened up iPhoto and everything worked and is working PERFECTLY. I then re-connected my printers and my Time Machine and performed a back up before importing photos back in to iPhoto. I DO WISH NOW THOUGH THAT I HADN'T DELETED AND RE-INSTALLED IPHOTO but it is nice being able to start over and organize iPhoto a little better than before.
I am sorry this is such a long post but for people like me who are not professionals in the computer department, sometimes it's good to "dumb" things done so that us "average joes" can understand a little better. Hopefully this will work for those who are having issues like mine. Thanks for all the help from everyone from my previous posts.

Tom:
To help prevent loss like you experienced see the tip at the end of my signature.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

MBP 17" not remembering ICC color profiles in XP with 23" ACD

I have a MacBook Pro 17" that I'm using in a dual-screen configuration (internal display and a 23" Cinema Display). I'm running Windows XP through Boot Camp, and I use a Gretag Eye-One calibrator to create color profiles for each display.
On my PC using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, I was able to calibrate both displays, and the software that came with the Eye-one set those profiles as defaults and it worked fine.
Now that I moved to a MacBook, I'm trying to do the same thing, but for some reason it picks the profile for one of the displays and sets both monitors to it, giving the internal display a horrible blue cast, or the external a horrible green cast until I go in using the new windows color control panel to manually set the profiles every time I boot.
One odd thing is that the computer detects each display twice, and they're all called 'plug and play monitor', so I usually have to play around to find the correct display and assign the right color profile to it.
Anyone else run into this problem and know how to fix it?
-s
MacBook Pro 17" Core Duo Windows XP Pro External 23" Cinema Display

"I'm running Windows XP through Boot Camp"
You're probably better off posting your question in the Boot Camp discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1165

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Im trying to colorsync my macbook pro with my office designers macs.
They setup their color profiles...and then sent me the Color.ICC profile that was created.
I added this to my Macbook in Library > ColorSync > Profiles
I am able to select this in my display color settings (system prefs).
However the profile is not appearing in any of my application color settings (i.e. Photoshop and Illustrator).
any ideas on how to use this ICC profile for RGB application settings?

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