Display Color Profile Deletion

Folks,
Is there a way to delete display profiles?
After adjusting the gamma setting I've been experimenting with various combinations.
I would like to remove the ones that I do not prefer.

If the 'Delete Profile' button is dimmed when using the System Preferences/Displays pane (Color tab)...
Try this advice from OS X Help:
• Where are ColorSync profiles located?
To make it easy to share and organize ColorSync profiles, you can put them in several locations on your computer or network.
• These are the standard locations for profiles on your computer:
System profiles: System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
• These are the profiles used by the system. You should not attempt to modify or delete these profiles. You should not install your own profiles here.
Computer profiles: Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
This is the recommended place to install new profiles. These profiles are available to all users, and are available to be used by ColorSync Utility.
User Profiles: ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
• These profiles are available only to the current user. The tilde (~) character indicates your home folder.
• Network profiles: /Network/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
These profiles are available only if you’re connected to a network.
• Color Management Modules (CMMs) are located here:
/Library/ColorSync/CMMs/
To see the location of profiles:
Open ColorSync Utility, in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Open ColorSync Utility - Click Profiles in the toolbar.
Click the black triangle in the upper-right corner of the profile list, and then choose “Group by location.”
• Some third-party devices or applications store profiles in a different location or as data within the application. For more information, visit the manufacturer’s website.

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I cannot agree more with your comments! What a way to frustrate your customers!
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If the 'Delete Profile' button is dimmed when using the System Preferences/Displays pane (Color tab)...
Try this advice from OS X Help:
• Where are ColorSync profiles located?
To make it easy to share and organize ColorSync profiles, you can put them in several locations on your computer or network.
• These are the standard locations for profiles on your computer:
System profiles: System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
• These are the profiles used by the system. You should not attempt to modify or delete these profiles. You should not install your own profiles here.
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• These profiles are available only to the current user. The tilde (~) character indicates your home folder.
• Network profiles: /Network/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
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• Color Management Modules (CMMs) are located here:
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I have a little problem here. Can't calibrate my color on my Macbook Black.
I attach some screens so u can check out the problem.
The colors of my computer, suddenly, switched to some weird ones. I didn't update, just plugged a secondary screen..
This is my screen color window:
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9680/imagen5it.png
This is when I click calibrate:
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9055/imagen6lr.png
TRANSLATION: "Cannot calibrate the Screen - Original screen profile missing"
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Pictures would help. A good way to do this is to post them to a free photo sharing site like Flickr and then post a link.
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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.
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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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Hi there,
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The color shift happens when the computer changes the graphics card (from Intel HD to Nvidia or AMD). It's a problem of Mac OS X 10.8.x. I found a simple solution that worked (at least for me):
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Reboot your computer
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My question; Is there a .conf file for the login window that I can edit so it selects my calibrated color profile instead? I’ve read the articles http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1083 and http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4286 and it doesn’t appear that I even need this update.
I imaged my hard drive after each OS upgrade so I have a day old image to revert to 10.5.8 if needed and then run the updates again (this time skipping the graphic update) but, I would rather not have to spend the several hours to revert and upgrade again.
I have some experience with command line editing in Unix/Linux. I just need to know the correct file(s) to edit. Also, do I have to enable the Root user to do this? I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Root user by default is not enabled in Mac OSX.
TIA…..Paul

So, I went ahead and restored from my 10.5.8 image. I upgraded to 10.6 and the login screen matches my user color profile. After the upgrade to 10.6, OSX changed the default color profile to “VGA Display” instead of the “VGA Display Calibrated” profile I had created back in 10.4.11. This uncalibrated color profile looked fine at this point so I left it at that setting. It actually looked a little better that my older calibrated profile. So, no real problem here.
BTW the older calibrated profile was created using OSX calibration tools in 10.4.x. I’m going to calibrate again in 10.6.4 and see what it looks like. This monitor has excellent color. Game play is super and film photography editing on it has always reproduced very nice matching images.
I then updated from 10.6 to 10.6.4 with no additional updates applied. The problem with the “Color Profile Challenged Login Screen” happened after the 10.6.4 Combo Update. The “VGA Display” profile had somehow been altered. I switched to Apple RGB and that matched the pre-10.6.4 VGA Display profile.
Apparently I wasn’t paying close enough attention during the first install. I can deduce at this point that the graphics update wasn’t the problem as I had previously reported. I did set each user color profile to Apple RGB but the login window stays at altered VGA Display. I don’t feel like experimenting with previous combo updates to identify which one is the culprit. I had a few nights to work this out and now I want to get back to using my Mac for other things. I’m going to go ahead and run the rest of the other updates including the graphics update.
I hope I can get an answer here to see if there is a conf file I can edit to set the login window to use a color profile of my choice. It’s a minor but glaring annoyance that a slightly Monk’ish person like me would like to remedy.
Otherwise, the system runs fine (even with only 1GB RAM) and my CS1 suite appears to have full functionality.
TAIA…..Paul

Display Calibration Creates Color Profile Problems.

I haven't received any response out of the MBP Display forum and I thought you guys might have better insight anyway because you are dealing with color calibration more often. Here it is:
I used colorsync utility to calibrate my monitor, hoping it would at least get the colors more accurate than they are with the "Color LCD" profile. The Color LCD profile has a bad yellow tinge to it. I went through the process 4 times so I would be able to choose the best profile out of the 4. (Now I can't delete the extra profiles but I guess that is a different topic...) The color accuracy and the gray-tone is MUCH better BUT I have a slight (understatement) saturation problem.
My problem is after using Color Sync, ALL of my REDS are oversaturated and blown out. There is a problem with the blues and greens as well but it isn't as bad. Of course, they look fine in non color managed applications (ie FireFox) but everything else makes my photos look horrible. Even the RAW files straight out of the camera look blown out.
I had, at first edited these files on a PC so they always looked fine but now that I have switched to Mac I have noticed how oversaturated they are in all of its color managed applications. (Safari, preview, and even the desktop.) I thought perhaps that I had just pumped up the contrast and saturation too high on the PC and the color profile was now creating a problem because the color was set for an un-profiled file. BUT after viewing the unaltered .NEF's straight out of my camera, they too are oversaturated.
Now, I have some wallpapers I had downloaded from the web that look the same as before. It is just MY OWN photographs that are oversaturated. Obviously I have chosen the wrong color profile or something is wrong with my workflow. The wallpaper that looks the same doesn't have a profile assigned it when I view-info. It just labels the color space as RGB. All my photos that have problems, have a color profile assigned. I am using sRGB as recommended. There are a few still using Adobe RGB (which is what my camera defaults to) and they have the same oversaturation problem.
Aperture is set to export with an sRGB profile and CS2 uses sRGB as well.
Any advice? What monitor and color management profile's are you guys using?
I can't tell what is right anymore. What should I edit my photos to look good in? The only MONITOR profile that doesn't blow them out is Adobe/Apple RGB, Color LCD, and a few of the other default installed profiles.
I've got a bad case of color vertigo!

sorry uberfoto, did not get what MBP meant at first.
what Jan says about color calibration tool is right....and start again from the RAW.....
i am photographer in the advertisement, reportage, portraits and landscape.
my problem was to get the thinks printed as I saw them on the screen.
here what I have to say on that (part of another discussion):
".... Sorry, but no AppleTFT Display comes close to a hardware calibrated display. Maybe they are semi-professional. I do not say this to insult Apple, ore somebody else, but i say this to sway out the illusion of , " if I just spend more money on the calibration tool and software, I´ll have better prints". It´s just not possible, because the display cant show what is there. A Apple CRT Studio Display is far better in this. I you want to have a flat-screen TFT Display to bring good results, you have to choose one that is able to be hardware calibrated and has a higher lookup table (EIZO, LaCie, QuatoGrafics......)
I use use one professional EIZO CG21" and one semi-prof. EIZO FlexScanL985EX(21") and the diffrence is important between the two.
But i need only one to be Print Proof ready.
Before i was always afraid when i gave the picture file to my client, because of what my pictures look like once it is printed. Now the outcome is right or differs only very little from what I saw on the screen. my calibration tool is EYE ONE. "..
BUT your main problem is how it looks in the web.
my thoughts and suggestion on this:
1. most people see the web on PC Display. those use a gamma of 2.2
(apple = 1.8) so pictures appear more blue with more contrast. this setting is made to hide the low ability of the system and display to show colors as they are and give and give crispy impression. So you will have to consider this when you prepare the pictures for the web. therefor the standard calibration of your MBP is best for your needs. ( for printing the Display has to be set on 5.600 kelvin ,that would be to warm 4 the wwweb).
2.
a) In the beginning I use Aperture 1.5 (or Lightroom) to select and prepare the pictures as I like them.
b) then I export them in 8 bit/300 dpi in the size they will be used as PSD or TIFF.
c) I will then open them in Photoshop (color-settings=web /internet) make the cleaning and so on.( 4 the web I always increase the saturation because sRGB and JPG will throw away lots of colors).
d) AND NOW "save for the web ". This is definitely the best tool to prepare pictures for the web. on the right upper part of the window there is a flash-open menu where you may choose to see the colors like in windows or macintosh system.
and on the lower right of the application-window there is a roll-down menu where you may preview the results in different browsers of your choice.
It is here where you can produce amazing high Q pictures 4 the web under 100 kb.
Hope this may help.
good luck,
larry
G5 dual 2.3/4,5 gigRam/ATI 9600 128MB-PB G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.2) EIZO CG 21"+EIZO L985ex 21"
G5 dual 2.3/4,5 gigRam/ATI 9600 128MB-PB G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.2) EIZO CG 21"+EIZO L985ex 21"
G5 dual 2.3/4,5 gigRam/ATI 9600 128MB-PB G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.2) EIZO CG 21"+EIZO L985ex 21"

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