Is monitor with adobeRGB profile better?

I notice some LED backlit monitor has adobeRGB as well as sRGB profile. If I select adobeRGB, would I get a larger color gamut (more colors) in photoshop?
Is there any downside to this?

avpromedia wrote:
I notice some LED backlit monitor has adobeRGB as well as sRGB profile. If I select adobeRGB, would I get a larger color gamut (more colors) in photoshop?
Is there any downside to this?
In addition to what D Fosse said, the Adobe RGB profile does not describe the behavior of a wide gamut monitor any better than sRGB profile describes the behavior of a regular monitor. The wide gamut monitor is able to show most of the aRGB gamut just as a normal monitor is able to show sRGB. You still have to profile the monitor since its behavior will not be described accurately by the Adobe RGB profile.

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Possible solution for problems printing with ICC profiles - esp. R2400

(N.B. This is long because I've decided to go in to details about the background of the problem etc.. Also note that whilst my experience is with the Epson R2400, anyone with problems printing using ICC profiles in Aperture may find this post helpful, as will be explained further down the post.)
Ok, here's the situation. I've been an Aperture user for over a year, and an R2400 owner for half a year. In that time I have done a huge amount of experimenting, but I've never managed to get Aperture to work perfectly with Epson's 'premium' R2400 ICC profiles - the ones you can download from their site which are better than the ones provided 'in the box'. This hasn't been too big a deal because, in fact, the R2400 does a rather good job just set to 'System Managed' in Aperture and 'Epson Vivid' with a gamma of 1.8 in the printer driver. Nevertheless, it really annoyed me that something that should work wasn't, which is why I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what's going on. Having said that, I have come across a method which will give you pretty good prints out of your Epson R2400 using the premium profiles in Aperture - it's not perfect, but it's the best you're going to get if you want to use those profiles in Aperture. I understand the words 'it's not perfect' aren't what photography experts would probably want to hear, however, I have seen a few anguished posts from R2400 owners in here before, so I think some people may find it useful.
The whole reason why Aperture is hopeless at using the R2400's premium profiles is because - unusually - their default rendering intent is set to 'relative colorimetric' rather than 'perceptual'. You might say 'but that's good - it means you get more accurate colours!', and if you do, you're right... however, there's a snag. To get an image to reproduce well using Epson's premium profiles and relative colorimetric rendering, you really need to use black point compensation. This is where the trouble lies: Aperture's black point compensation is diabolical to the point of being unusable when used with relative colorimetric rendering - I feel I need to be awarded compensation every time I've ever tempted to use the setting. So because BPC in Aperture is unusable, that effectively makes the premium profiles unusable too, because Aperture always uses the default rendering intent specified in the profile.
The solution? Use perceptual rendering instead. Ok, so you can't change the rendering intent in Aperture, which makes that sound a tad difficult. However, as I said in the above paragraph, Aperture always obeys the default rendering intent specified in the profile... so you can see where we're going with this: we need to change the ICC profiles' default rendering intent from 'relative colorimetric' to 'perceptual'. I did some digging around and found one or two expensive pieces of software that could do that... but then I found that, lo and behold, the Mac OS has a command-line utility which can do the job for us, for precisely £0.00. It's called SIPS or 'Scriptable Image Processing System', and you can find out some information about it here: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2035.html#TNTAG58 For those who don't like reading technical jargon however, here's what you need to do to convert a profile's rendering intent. First go to terminal, then type in the following command:
sips -s renderingIntent perceptual
Do not press 'enter' yet. Instead, add a space after 'perceptual', find the ICC profile you want to modify, and click and drag it into the terminal window. You should then find that your command looks something like this:
sips -s renderingIntent perceptual /Users/yourname/folder/RandomProfile.ICC
At which point you can then press 'enter', and the command will execute, giving you an ICC profile which will now make Aperture use perceptual rendering.
There is just one further thing to be aware of after doing this: for some crazy reason, you then need to turn on BPC in Aperture for the prints to come out as good as possible. Black point compensation shouldn't make any difference when using perceptual rendering as the idea of perceptual is that it takes account of things like that anyway, however, in Aperture BPC does make a difference, so remember to turn it on to get a half decent print. In general, I find that prints made using this setup come out pretty well; they almost perfectly match prints made using the profiles with a perceptual intent in Photoshop Elements, except for the fact that Aperture blocks up the shadows a bit more than Photoshop. However, if you can live with that, you might find this is quite a workable solution.
Now, I said near the beginning of this post that all the above can apply to other printers too. Most printer profiles have 'perceptual' set as their default rendering intent, in which case everything I've just said won't be of much help. However, If you are reading this because you're having problems with ICC profiles in Aperture, but you don't use an Epson R2400, find your problematic ICC profile, double-click on it, and take a look at the window that opens: specifically, at the 'Rendering Intent' the window mentions. If it doesn't say 'Perceptual' then it may well be worth trying the steps I've outlined in this post to set it to perceptual, to see if doing so produces an improvement when using the profile in Aperture.
Finally, just one note of caution: if you decide to try out the steps I've detailed above on a paid-for custom-made profile, please back your profile up before messing with it. I haven't experienced any problems when using SIPS to change a profile's rendering intent, but I obviously can't guarantee that it won't do something weird and corrupt your expensive custom-made profile.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask, although (contrary to any impression I may give) I am not a colour-management expert; I'm just someone who doesn't give up when they have a problem that should be solvable.
Thomas
Mac Pro 2.0GHz with 30" ACD; 15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Thomas
Wow - thanks for such a comprehensive post.
I have Aperture and a 2400 so this information is exceptionally useful to me.
Again - thanks for caring and sharing
Brian

AppV 5 slow to refresh with roaming profile (no redirects) but fast with local profile

Hi,
I have an issue I can't get thought out. I have an AppV5 SP3 full infra, with SMB share and local caching of packages enabled. Everything works from a functional level. However I have an issue where users with a roaming profile get a very slow AppV refresh
during login.
I created a few testaccounts, a few with local profile and a few with roaming profiles. For these testusers there are NO folder redirects. The only difference between them is local profile or roaming profile.
When I login with a local-profile user initially, the AppV client rather slowly refreshes the applications and shortcuts. It generates quite some CPU load on the RDS host, but as soon as the shortcuts are placed everything is fine. When I log that user off,
and log in again, the shortcuts are there immediately and I can immediately start the applications (Office 2010 for example). Blazing fast. Also when logging in, the refresh-UI is there for about half a second, it really flashes and it's done.
Then with a testuser with roaming profile, the initial refresh is about the same. But when I logoff that user and login again, it's all very slow. The shortcuts are there but blank initially, it takes about 5-10 seconds to get the correct icon. It takes
much longer before the refresh actually starts (sometimes up to 30 seconds after login), and it takes 5-10 seconds to do the refresh, with 100% cpu load on the thread AppVclient.exe is running on. Also right after loging in when the shortcuts are blank they
don't work until they get the proper icon. WHen everything is refreshed it works all fine though. It's just painfully slow at start.
I don't understand this. I can reproduce this every single time. Without folder redirects I don't see the difference between roaming and local profile from AppV perspective, as the roaming profile is of course copied to the server and in that sense the server
just works with a local copy anyway.
Anyone encountered this, and how to troubleshoot, or better fix this?

So is the fact that there is a 5-10 second delay during refresh actually an issue? What I mean by that is - are any users comparing the local profiles with roaming profiles experience, or complaining that the delay is there?
Roaming profiles and Folder redirection are of course very simple to configure; however for the best user experience I recommend managing profiles with a real profile management solution.
If you have MDOP, then you'll also have access to UE-V. You've mentioned your environment is RDS, which sadly doesn't get UE-V, even though you have App-V.
Here are some resources on UE-V + App-V and what's required when managing App-V with roaming users:
How To Use Microsoft User Experience Virtualization With App-V Applications
Application Publishing and Client Interaction: Roaming registry and data
Here's also some resources on App-V performance worth looking at:
Performance Guidance for Application Virtualization 5.0
App-V Performance Best Practices: New Project VRC White Paper
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App-V 5.0 SP2 RDS Client with hotfix 2 breaks frequently on Windows 2012R2 with User Profile Disks enabled

Hi All,
I am at my wit's end trying to troubleshoot this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
We are having serious stability issues with App-V 5.0 SP2 RDS in our environment with User Profile Disks enabled.
We have applied the latest hotfix but the issues persist.
The main problems are:
1. Periodically the client seems to become corrupted and all applications stop working for all users. All applications including the official Microsoft Office 2013 ones - not just our packages.
The symptoms are the same as if I change the App-V Client Service account to run under a user account instead of SYSTEM, so it suggests a file access issue. The log files also hint at this, and one of there errors is similar to this:
The virtual application 'C:\Users\rds.user9\AppData\Local\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Integration\A3EF9C01-C0E9-4AC5-B21F-DB9B1D2F700C\Root\Mindjet\MindManager 14\MindManager.exe' could not be started because the
App-V Subsystem 'Virtual Filesystem' could not be initialized. {error: 0x6740090A-0x20003}
Once this problem occurs the only way I have found to fix it is to either completely remove and reinstall the client, or (perhaps this is the big clue) rename the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\MAV\Configuration\Volumes , unpublish
an application, then republish said application.
I don't even think it matters which application gets published. The point seems to be that this 'Volumes' key gets rewritten.
I am highly suspicious that our issues are caused by User Profile disks in our RDS environment, as when I disable them on our staging collection all of these issues seem to disappear.
I have made sure all of the servers have permissions on the share (folder and share permissions). It doesn't seem to make a difference.
2. Some application fail completely with User Profile Disks enabled. If we switch the setting from "Store all settings and data on the user profile disk" to "Store Only the following folders" there seems to be some improvement,
in that at least one application that fails on the other setting starts to work.
3. We have already set that NTFS 8 dot 3 reg fix some time ago.
SOS!
We have gone live this week (not my call) and this is having disasterous consequences. :(
Thanks in advance,
John

Hi,
Thanks for your response.
I did try this a while ago without success, although it may be worth revisiting with SP2 applied.
I have left this client now.
I left them a Powershell script that deletes HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\MAV\Configuration\Volumes
and triggers an Unpublish/Publish of an application we have deployed to all of the servers.
This seems to work, but a fix would be better than a workaround.
Not really my problem now though - I did my best.
Thanks,
John

If I buy an external monitor (with a res of 2560x1440) will my early 2011 MacBook Pro work ok? And will it be utilising the monitors full res or not?

Hi,
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro. I use Premiere Pro CS5 to video edit on. It's fine but when it comes to grading it's nearly impossible on such a small screen.
I'd like to buy a 27inch external monitor (Asus, Samsung, Dell, whatever - haven't decided yet) for when I'm editing at work (which is most days). My query is regarding the resolutions. Obviously my MacBook Pro displays a resolution of 1280x800, so if I buy a monitor with a resolution of 2560x1440 for example, what gets displayed?
And also does the connecting cable make any difference? For example, if I'm connecting by Thunderbolt out to HDMI, then an HDMI to HDMI cable to the external monitor, what happens then? Or should I be using a Mini Display Port to Display Port connecting lead?
I guess all I really want to know is, will it work? But also, am I wasting my money buying an external monitor with a 2560x1440 resolution? Should I just go for one that's the same res at my MacBook Pro?
I've never really understood how these things all work!
Thanks in advance for anyones help.
Regards,
Phil

I think it will work. You would need a mini displayport to (single link) DVI adapter to hook up that monitor.
Not sure what kind of problems you had with the ViewSonic but I'm guessing the Dell is probably a better monitor anyhow.

System Monitoring with Solution Manager Ehp1

Hi,
I'm Tomas Piqueres, and I'm working in a VAR SAP with Solution Manager.
Recently, we installed Solution Manager Ehp1 and we are trying to configure it for System Monitoring. When I worked with Solution Manager SP17 I used to go to transaction RZ21 to add the system I wanted to monitoring and then put the SID and RFCs of the system.
Now with Solution Manager Ehp1, when I create the system in transaction RZ21, first I have to set the Component Type to Be Monitored and then the SID, Message Server Logon Group, the client and user are set automatically, and the password I've set to user CSMREG.
when I fill all the entries, I can see the RFCs used for the monitoring of the system. Those RFCs are set automatically:
<SID>_RZ20_COLLECT
<SID>_RZ20_ANALYZE
I can't edit those RFCs, so I have to create it manually. I check that RFCs destination works fine and both pass the authorization test, so when I try to save the system at transaction RZ21, I see the following errors:
<SID>_RZ20_COLLECT_123539Error when opening an RFC connection
Error during remote call of SAL_MS_GET_LOCAL_MS_INFO function: Error when opening an RFC connection
Error during remote call of SALC function: Error when opening an RFC connection
Error during remote call of RFC1 function: Error when opening an RFC connection
I've been looking for information about those errors and how to monitoring with Solution Manager Ehp1, but I haven't found anything usefull.
Please, Could you help me?
Thanks and regards,
Tomas.

Tomas,
I need to configure EWA from my Solman system and I completed the steps (defining and creation of RFC destinations to the target systems from my Solman system). I downloaded the lates ccmsagent file from the market place based my target system configurations.
Herewith attaching the logs while I'm trying to check the profile parameter.
tqaadm@saptqa01:/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/exe/run 5> sappfpar check pf=/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
================================================================================
==   Checking profile:     /usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
================================================================================
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: DIR_EPS =/usr/sap/trans/EPS/----
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: SAPSECULIB =/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/exe/run/libsapsecu.o
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: abap/buffersize_part1 =1200000
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: auth/auth_number_in_userbuffer =5000
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: dbs/io_buf_size =100000
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsau/local/file =/usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/audit/audit_++++++++
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsau/selector1/class =35
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsau/selector1/severity =2
***WARNING: Unexpected parameter: rsdb/rclu/cachelimt =0
***ERROR: Size of shared memory pool 40 too small
================================================================
SOLUTIONS: (1) Locate shared memory segments outside of pool 40
               with parameters like: ipc/shm_psize_<key> =0
SOLUTION: Increase size of shared memory pool 40
          with parameter: ipc/shm_psize_40 =1472000000
Shared memory disposition overview
================================================================
Shared memory pools
Key:   10 Pool
            Size configured.....:   642000000 ( 612.3 MB)
            Size min. estimated.:   637597428 ( 608.1 MB)
            Advised Size........:   640000000 ( 610.4 MB)
Key:   40 Pool for database buffers
            Size configured.....: 1048000000 ( 999.4 MB)
            Size min. estimated.: 1468229308 (1400.2 MB)
            Advised Size........: 1472000000 (1403.8 MB)
Shared memories inside of pool 10
Key:        1 Size:        2500 (   0.0 MB) System administration
Key:        4 Size:      523648 (   0.5 MB) statistic area
Key:        7 Size:       14838 (   0.0 MB) Update task administration
Key:        8 Size:    67108964 ( 64.0 MB) Paging buffer
Key:        9 Size:   134217828 ( 128.0 MB) Roll buffer
Key:       11 Size:      500000 (   0.5 MB) Factory calender buffer
Key:       12 Size:     6000000 (   5.7 MB) TemSe Char-Code convert Buf.
Key:       13 Size:   200500000 ( 191.2 MB) Alert Area
Key:       16 Size:       22400 (   0.0 MB) Semaphore activity monitoring
Key:       17 Size:     2672386 (   2.5 MB) Roll administration
Key:       30 Size:       37888 (   0.0 MB) Taskhandler runtime admin.
Key:       31 Size:     4806000 (   4.6 MB) Dispatcher request queue
Key:       33 Size:    39936000 ( 38.1 MB) Table buffer, part.buffering
Key:       34 Size:    20480000 ( 19.5 MB) Enqueue table
Key:       51 Size:     3200000 (   3.1 MB) Extended memory admin.
Key:       52 Size:       40000 (   0.0 MB) Message Server buffer
Key:       54 Size:    20488192 ( 19.5 MB) Export/Import buffer
Key:       55 Size:        8192 (   0.0 MB) Spool local printer+joblist
Key:       57 Size:     1048576 (   1.0 MB) Profilparameter in shared mem
Key:       58 Size:        4096 (   0.0 MB) Enqueue ID for reset
Key:       62 Size:    85983232 ( 82.0 MB) Memory pipes
Shared memories inside of pool 40
Key:        2 Size:    31168040 ( 29.7 MB) Disp. administration tables
Key:        3 Size:   114048000 ( 108.8 MB) Disp. communication areas
Key:        6 Size: 1064960000 (1015.6 MB) ABAP program buffer
Key:       14 Size:    28600000 ( 27.3 MB) Presentation buffer
Key:       19 Size:    90000000 ( 85.8 MB) Table-buffer
Key:       42 Size:    13920992 ( 13.3 MB) DB TTAB buffer
Key:       43 Size:    43422392 ( 41.4 MB) DB FTAB buffer
Key:       44 Size:     8606392 (   8.2 MB) DB IREC buffer
Key:       45 Size:     6558392 (   6.3 MB) DB short nametab buffer
Key:       46 Size:       20480 (   0.0 MB) DB sync table
Key:       47 Size:    13313024 ( 12.7 MB) DB CUA buffer
Key:       48 Size:      300000 (   0.3 MB) Number range buffer
Key:       49 Size:     3309932 (   3.2 MB) Spool admin (SpoolWP+DiaWP)
Shared memories outside of pools
Key:       18 Size:     1792100 (   1.7 MB) Paging adminitration
Key:       41 Size:    25010000 ( 23.9 MB) DB statistics buffer
Key:       63 Size:      409600 (   0.4 MB) ICMAN shared memory
Key:       64 Size:     4202496 (   4.0 MB) Online Text Repository Buf.
Key:       65 Size:     4202496 (   4.0 MB) Export/Import Shared Memory
Key:     1002 Size:      400000 (   0.4 MB) Performance monitoring V01.0
Key: 58900130 Size:        4096 (   0.0 MB) SCSA area
Nr of operating system shared memory segments: 9
Shared memory resource requirements estimated
================================================================
Nr of shared memory descriptors required for
Extended Memory Management (unnamed mapped file).: 64
Total Nr of shared segments required.....:         73
System-imposed number of shared memories.:       1000
Shared memory segment size required min..: 1472000000 (1403.8 MB)
System-imposed maximum segment size......: 35184372088832 (33554432.0 MB)
Swap space requirements estimated
================================================
Shared memory....................: 2050.4 MB
..in pool 10 608.1 MB,   99% used
..in pool 40 999.4 MB, 140% used !!
..not in pool:   34.4 MB
Processes........................: 716.8 MB
Extended Memory .................: 8192.0 MB
Total, minimum requirement.......: 10959.2 MB
Process local heaps, worst case..: 1907.3 MB
Total, worst case requirement....: 12866.5 MB
Errors detected..................:    1
Warnings detected................:    9
After checking the profile parameter I tried to run sapccm4x in /run directory but got the below error and I'm not able tomove further.
Pls have a look at these two and let me know what could I do to proceed further.
tqaadm@saptqa01:/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/exe/run 5> sapccm4x -R pf=/usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
INFO: CCMS agent sapccm4x working directory is /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/sapccm4x
INFO: CCMS agent sapccm4x config file is /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/sapccm4x/csmconf
INFO: Central Monitoring System is [SMP]. (found in config file)
      additional CENTRAL system y/[n] ?   :
INFO: found ini file /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log/sapccm4x/sapccmsr.ini.
INFO:
      CCMS version 20040229, 64 bit, multithreaded, Non-Unicode
      compiled at   Jun 28 2010
      systemid      324 (IBM RS/6000 with AIX)
      relno         6400
      patch text    patch collection 2010/1, OSS note 1304480
      patchno       335
INFO Runtime:
      running on    saptqa01 AIX 3 5 00069A8FD600
      running with profile   /usr/sap/TQA/SYS/profile/TQA_DVEBMGS30_saptqa01
INFO profile parameters:
      alert/MONI_SEGM_SIZE = 200000000
      alert/TRACE          = 1
      SAPSYSTEM            = 30
      SAPSYSTEMNAME        = TQA
      SAPLOCALHOST         = saptqa01
      DIR_CCMS             = /usr/sap/ccms
      DIR_LOGGING          = /usr/sap/TQA/DVEBMGS30/log
      DIR_PERF             = /usr/sap/tmp
INFO:
      pid           4165682
INFO: Attached to Shared Memory Key 13 (size 200141728) in pool 10
INFO: Connected to Monitoring Segment [CCMS Monitoring Segment for application server saptqa01_TQA_30, created with version CCMS version 20040229, 64 bit single threaded, compiled at Oct 3 2008, kernel 6400_20020600_254, platform 324 (IBM RS/6000 with AIX)]
        segment status     ENABLED
        segment started at Tue Sep 14 09:35:56 2010
        segment version    20040229
ERROR: Shared Memory misconfiguration ==> can not monitor SAP application server saptqa01_TQA_30
       Dispatcher Admin Shared Memory (Key 01) and CCMS Shared Memory (Key 13) both in pool 10.
       Please change configuration with profile parameters
           ipc/shm_psize_01 = -<different pool nr>
       xor
           ipc/shm_psize_13 = -<different pool nr>
EXITING with code 1

20" Monitor with (Built-in iSight?)

As soon as Apple updates the 20" monitor with built-in iSight I will be buying one and connecting my Macbook, then retiring my iMac iSight to my wife. Hurry up Apple with the upgrade.
Now for the technical question:
If Apple indeed adds iSight to it's line of monitors and since all the new computers Apple is building these days already have iSight built-in will my dream configuration work.
I know the external iSight works when connected, however there are minor glitches when shutting down, sleeping....

dig a little deeper next time
D/FW, there nothing to dig for. You're asking for functionality and behaviour of a product that does not exist. You're better off speculating in a rumours forum.

Files with embedded profiles shown as untagged in Bridge.Bridge only right about files saved from PS

Photoshop works perfectly when saving files as .psds etc. or PDF-Standards (PDF-X etc.), embedding the profiles correctly. However, InDesign and Illustrator do not embed any colour profiles in .pdfs, in their native formats (.indd and .ai) or any other format apart from .jpg.
Why is Photoshop working perfectly, yet AI and INDD are not? Everything was installed at the same time, and the colour management settings are all synchronised in bridge.
All I want to be able to do is save as one of the default PDF-X settings (via File > Save As in Illustrator), but as I said, saving as the same PDF-X standard across all 3 programs only embeds the profile if saved from Photoshop. I don’t have the slightest clue why Photshop is the only one that works.
Although, according to this post, which seems very similar to my question, it might be Adobe Brdige CS5 that is wrong: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3565578
Because I have files that Bridge shows as untagged, which upon opening do in fact have an embedded colour profile. Ugh, this stuff is confusing!

Thanks so much for your help, I didn't know any of those things. Very interesting.
In regards to Photoshop rasterizing PDFs, what exactly are the ramifications of that? A PDF-X saved from Photoshop is still fine to send to the print press, right?
So far, all the print work I do I design in the colour space specified by my printer, then save as a PDF-X1a (which is also what they specify), by doing 'Save As' in Illlustrator. I also name the file with the colour space, and my printer has not had any problems with this.
The reason I'm asking about colour management, is that I may start expanding into the area of designing adverts for newspapers and magazines, and this involves different colour spaces. And newspapers etc. around here won't be as fussy about colour management as my print-press, which is a very good print company. So it would be better if I knew they were getting PDFs from me with embedded colour profiles.
I think the situation is that when I save things with embedded profiles, that it does in fact work, despite what Bridge, Illustrator and InDesign say. I have .ai files that show up in Bridge as untagged, but when opened in Illustrator, do indeed have an embedded colour profile.
It's very confusing to know what's going on.
A rather non-technical workaround, which alot of people seem to use, is just designing the file in the correct colour space, saving the file in that colour space, naming the file with that colour space, and then when it gets to the printer/magazine/newspaper etc. hoping that (A) there is colour profile data in the file that people can see at the destination or (B) the people at the destination know from the file name that you designed it in the correct space, and so they just Assign Profile at their end, and all is well.
I mean, what's the alternative, I can't suddenly stop using Illustrator and InDesign, and doing ALL my work in Photoshop, just because of what Bridge says!

Best rgb and gamma settings for external monitor with mountain lion

Hi,
I'm using an LG LED 22 inch monitor with my MBP mid 2010 via minidisplay to hdmi. on OS X side the settings have been default. On the LED side the settings , if set to preset RGB it tends to fade the whites a lot. when i set to user definied and let the preset rgb be at it is, the colors are quote decent. currently they are on R 50, G 58 and B 59 and Gamma 1. Which is the best RGB and Gamma value for OS X Mountain Lion?

Welcome to the forum.
First off, you need to go and buy a hardware monitor calibrator, such as an OptixXR or similar. This will build a custom monitor profile for your specific screen. Without this starting point you can forget ANY attempt at accurate colour matching.
Never (and I mean never) use a working space such as sRGB or Adobe98 as your monitor profile, that's not what they are designed for. Working spaces control what colours are possible in the image, monitor profiles control how those colours are shown on screen. Aperture uses it's own working space so you don't have to worry about that too much.
To answer the rest far too briefly, I'd suggest setting the proofing profile to sRGB and of course use sRGB for the export preset. The gamma setting you will have to adjust depending on how dark the Lightjet prints look compared to your screen. You will have to do test-strips to start with.
Your images looking crap on flickr on Windows machines is partly because Windows web browsers generally do NO colour correction, and only partly to do with the different gamma.
Ian

Can I use another monitor with my iMac desk top?

Can I use another monitor with my iMac desk top? Our monitor screen is going out and would like to have another option then replacing the whole thing! I think A LCD TV would be less expensive than the repairs to our iMac.( OS 10.6.8 )

Yes, but we need to know exactly which year model you have? So that we can advise you on exactly which adapter you need for you iMac.
see > How to identify iMac models
Plus, adding that Computer Monitors make better displays than TVs and comparatively cost a little less than TVs.
For examples of monitors that have both DVI and VGA inputs:
see > LG 21.5" Widescreen FlatPanel LED HD Monitor E2242T - Best Buy
or > HP 20" Widescreen FlatPanel LED Monitor W2071D - Best Buy

Colors off in Preview when viewing JPG's with sRGB profiles

I have a 30" Dell monitor and my display preferences are set to use the calibrated profile for it. When I view JPGs images in any color managed application such as Preview the colors are horribly off. They are kind of dull, unsaturated, pale. JPG's that don't have sRGB profiles show up fine.
I can fix the problem in photoshop by opening the image and then doing a save for web which strips the profile information off of the jpg.
If I use sRGB as my monitor's profile colors are consistent across all applications but the problem is the colors are really bad. Extremely over contrasty and very dark.
What's going on with my color profiles?

Hi topmodelphotography ..
If you're keen about running the right profiles - please don't mess up the way you do. The sRGB profile that you're using is showing a narrower color space (value 0-16 of blacks are out). The sRGB profile is mainly used for consumer monitors in the cheap end where contrast conditions are worse that expensive and professional displays to present contents in a similar way across manufacturers. If you should use any predefined color profile, please use Adobe (1998) profiling.
best practive is calibrating your monitor with a good calibrator and use these profiles.
In System Preferences you should set up the calibrated profile and the same goes for all Adobe apps under Color Settings.
Useful reading concerning Color Profiles:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=321382&sliceId=1
Your issue with Preview is most likely due to erroneous setup in System Settings. otherwise try and disable Dithering in Preview.
And don't use Save for Web if you intend to keep at least a minor part of your colors in your images. Use TIFF's where possible (without 'upgrading' images from compressed formats such as JPEG's, GIF's, etc.)
useful reading about Image compression:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_compression
Hope this answers some of you questions.

HP w2207h Widescreen Flat-Panel Monitor with BrightView

I have an HP w2207h Widescreen Flat-Panel Monitor with BrightView Panel. Can't find the software download link for the BrightView part of it. Can anyone help me to locate that link again? Thank you

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3 DVI monitors with Thunderbolt Mac Mini

Is it possible to have 3 DVI monitors with Thunderbolt Mac Mini?

Maybe.
The first could be via a Mini Displayport to DVI adapter
The second could be via a HDMI to DVI cable
The third would have to be via a Displaylink USB adapter
It should be noted that the AMD powered Mac mini 2011 model will handle this workload better.

HT5918 Display Port Monitors with MacPro 2013

As of now, I am using 5 monitors on my MP 2006 and intend to move on to the new MP 2013.
After reading this note ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6008 ) I have some questions.
This article states that we can connect up to 6 monitors with mini-display port , and various restrictions on DVI and HDMI ones. However, it does not mention Display Port models, that can be connected via a Display / Mini Display port adapter.
My first question is then to know wether I can connect up to 5 ( or 6 ) of such monitors at the same time ( with DP to Mini DP adapters ) ?
My second would be to know wether I can connect 2 monitors with DVI to Mini DP adapters and 2/3 monitors with Display to Mini DP adapters at the same time ?
Finally, as there are no mentions of limits to VGA monitors used with VGA to Mini DP adapters : does that mean that I can use 5/6 monitors at teh same time that way ?
Thank's for your help in getting answers, as I need to be sure of what works before upgrading my old workhorse ... :+))

1.
we can connect up to 6 monitors with mini-display port ... it does not mention Display Port models, that can be connected via a Display / Mini Display port adapter.
DisplayPort is electrically the same as Mini DisplayPort. The adapter is simply a re-assignment of the pins to the different connectors. Some users find this adaptation is better performed with an adapter-cable, rather than a discrete adapter. Rules that apply to Mini DisplayPort stand exactly the same as (full size) DisplayPort.
2.
connect 2 monitors with DVI to Mini DP adapters AND 2/3 monitors with Display to Mini DP adapters at the same time ?
These appear to be limited to 2 Single-Link DVI adapters unless you use USB-powered ACTIVE adapters. This setup is complicated, and that is not "The Apple way". it may suddenly require ALL adapters be ACTIVE adapters.
3.
VGA to Mini DP adapters : does that mean that I can use 5/6 monitors at the same time that way ?
No. These will also be limited to easy use with the two display adapters. In today's digital display age, VGA is not a solution to anything. It is grudgingly provided to run your old projector.
All VGA Adapters are ACTIVE -- they contain a chip that generates the Analog signal from the DisplayPort signal provided, and the VGA signal degenerates further in the process, and has limited resolution. There are no VGA Adapters which have the extra USB input, so that alone may limit you to the two specified.
4.
For completeness, keep in mind that a 4K display can use up to 14G bits/second (variable depending on how much is changing on screen) for a moving picture, so there may not be as much as expected left over on that 20G bits/sec ThunderBolt channel (2 ports/channel) to run your Drives.

How to calibrate 2 monitors with Spyder 2 Suite?

Hi there!
I've just replaced my 24" imac with a new Mac Pro and two shiny new Samsung 206bw 20" displays.
My question is how do i calibrate both monitors with my Spyder 2 Suite?
It only seems to offer calibration for one monitor?
Any help would be great.

That's because the software thinks you changed your primary monitor. Each monitor will have its own color profile as long as you don't give them both the same name.

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