MBP hardware calibrated profile

Hello,
I am inquiring if anyone as calibrated the screen of his MacBook pro.
18 months ago, I owned an Hi Res 15" PowerBook and someone had done a hardware calibration of the screen. (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2031306#2031306)
The result was amazing for photo and imaging. Now that I have switched to a MacBook pro has anyone hardware calibrated his screen? And could he share the profile?
thanks,
Jeff
p.s.: Mine is the 2nd gen MBP, not with Led display.

I have an early 2008 model.. and sometimes when i come back from the screen saver, I go through this process as well... The calibration I have set is lost until I go to the system preferences panel and then it resets itself.

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About the hardware calibration system with the Macbook Pro display

I hope someone can help me out with a calibration problem I'm having. When I wake up my macbook from sleep (running OS X) the system automatically calibrates it and you can quickly see it switch from a blue tint to the proper colour profile. This is fine. However, I've installed Windows XP Pro via Bootcamp and the blue tint is there, the colours aren't right and this makes it particularly difficult for photo editing.
At first I thought it might just be me so I installed "VMWare Fusion" and ran Windows from a virtual drive. Since it was using OSX's calibration the colours were perfect. Is there any way to access monitor controls or a way to fix this? Software tweaks with the nVidia control panel don't make a difference. I've adjusted the gamma and had a go with the B/C settings but no luck. I think it is apparent that this is a problem with the firmware or something deeper than anything a software tweak could fix, judging by the auto-calibration during wake-up.

ctschach sez: "Well, you'll need a proper profile for WindowXP which will be loaded during the startup - there are no default profiles included in WindowsXP."
Yup! This is what is happening:
When you are in Mac OS X you are able to use ColorSync. In the Displays preference pane under 'color' you are able to choose or create your own color profile for the operating system to use for your display. When the OS is running, it is using your chosen display color profile.
Now you boot, via Bootcamp, into Windows. There is no ColorSync in Windows. The color profile your display was using in Mac OS X is still in Mac OS X. Windows hasn't got a clue about it. This has N O T H I N G to do with hardware. This issue is about getting a software color calibration profile for your display while you are running Windows.
So what does Microsoft offer in XP? It's time to go visit Microsoft to answer than question! I won't do your homework for you, but this will get you started:
http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&form=MSHOME&setlang=en-US&q=W indowsXP+colorcalibration&x=8&y=7
Next issue: Is it worth buying a colorimeter for an Apple laptop? --> NO WAY!
(A) They are exorbitantly expensive.
(B) They are a total waste on a MacBook or MacBook Pro. The Apple laptop LCD displays cannot do 24 bit 'millions of colors' despite what you have read. They can only do 18 bit color (6 bits per Red, Green, Blue). The OS then uses dithering to fake the missing colors. Therefore, they are lousy for doing color management. The best you are going to get is a guestimation of what the image really looks like. You might as well just use what Apple provides for creating your own calibration in the Display preference pane under 'color'.
It would be much better to judge color with a calibrated Apple Cinema Display, which uses actual 24 bit color, or even better use a calibrated good quality CRT, still considered the optimum display for color management.
I have posted a brief dissertation about color management on LCD displays in response to a few queries in this group already, so I won't post it again. If anyone would like a copy, just bounce me a note.
:-Derek

Monitor Hardware Calibration Benefits

Hello to all...
Lets see if someone could help me:
I know if I hardware calibrate my monitor I can post process a photo in lightroom much more accurately because I get much more "near" to my ink jet printer when it comes to compare what I see in my monitor and what the printer prints.
Question is:
And if we talk about post process a photo in a hardware calibrated monitor and after that, instead of print it in my ink jet, ask to a "printing enterprise" ( sorry, I don't know how to say this correctly in English, but I think it is understandable ) to do the job.
Will I benefit too by having my monitor hardware calibrated when I order prints to "printing enterprises" ?
Lots of thanks
Miguel Garcia

>Will I benefit too by having my monitor hardware calibrated when I order prints to "printing enterprises" ?
Yes absolutely. Most (except the very cheapest) of those online places calibrate to a standard, which means that you'll get the best color if you hardware calibrate too. Some of these will even give you printing profiles that you can use to get the most accurate color but many standardize on sRGB. No matter what the printing places calibrate their equipment too or whether they give you profiles or not, if you do not calibrate using hardware, your screen is basically in a completely random state and you cannot predict what your prints will look like. So what is needed for good color reproduction is calibration on your side and calibration and good maintenance on the other side.

What is the rationale behind the "Adobe Standard" color calibration profile?

Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to make the most of the various color calibration profiles Adobe offers for my cameras with Lightroom 5. I do understand the purpose of the camera-specific options--they're designed to help approach camera JPEG processing mode colors. And they work wonderfully--they're very helpful!
But I don't really understand the purpose of the "Adobe Standard" calibration option. What is it for? Why does it look the way it looks? Has it been designed to ease certain processing goals? To enhance certain colors or tonal combinations? Is it designed to be more accurate than the manufacturer profiles in some way? What can I do with "Adobe Standard" that I can't do with one of the camera-specific calibration options?
I would find it *extremely* helpful if someone who's involved with the engineering behind Lightroom's color (or anyone else who's especially knowledgeable about Lightroom's design) might talk a little bit about why "Adobe Standard" looks the way it looks. What's it for? To what purposes can I leverage it?
Thanks so much!

MarkJoseph wrote:
I would find it *extremely* helpful if someone who's involved with the engineering behind Lightroom's color (or anyone else who's especially knowledgeable about Lightroom's design) might talk a little bit about why "Adobe Standard" looks the way it looks. What's it for? To what purposes can I leverage it?
Adobe Stadnard is the name for the individual profiles Adobe builds for each camera it receives. A new camera ships, Adobe gets their hands on one and builds a profile with that sample. It isn't suppose to mimic the in-camera JPEG settings, I don't believe it's supposed to mimic anything but instead produce what is (and quotes are super important in this context) the most 'accurate' color response from the target they use to create the profile. But here's the rub. Not all cameras from the same make and model behave identically. Adobe simply can't get piles of the same body and build then average that response. So they provide a means for you to build your own custom DNG camera profile and for differing illuminates. So if you want to leverage it, you'd get a target (MacBeth 24 patch, X-rite Passport) and build your own custom profile. It can really help depending on how your sensor deviates from the sensor Adobe got to build their profiles.
For more info on DNG profiles and rolling your own:
In this 30 minute video, we’ll look into the creation and use of DNG camera profiles in three raw converters. The video covers:
What are DNG camera profiles, how do they differ from ICC camera profiles.
Misconceptions about DNG camera profiles.
Just when, and why do you need to build custom DNG camera profiles?
How to build custom DNG camera profiles using the X-rite Passport software.
The role of various illuminants on camera sensors and DNG camera profiles.
Dual Illuminant DNG camera profiles.
Examples of usage of DNG camera profiles in Lightroom, ACR, and Iridient Developer.
Low Rez (YouTube):
http://youtu.be/_fikTm8XIt4
High Rez (download):
http://www.digitaldog.net/files/DNG%20Camera%20profile%20video.mov

I have been having a issue with getting the colors on my monitor to match the colors fro my print lab. I now have the monitor calibrated to match the prints but when I open elements it doesn't use the same colors. If i have it use the calibrated profile b

I have been having a issue with getting the colors on my monitor to match the colors fro my print lab. I now have the monitor calibrated to match the prints but when I open elements it doesn't use the same colors. If i have it use the calibrated profile by changing the color management settings, the color picker no longer shows true white or black. How do I get elements 12 to honor the new calibrated settings?

Ok so I've done what you said and this is what it's come back ....
I don't know that these are the errors , but they're the things which don't look right ...
Throughout the shut down there is a recurring line ;
It says ;
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Oh and on Launchd1 : System : stray anonymous job at shut down : PID 301 PPID13 PGID 13 unmount...
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Missing Camera Calibration Profiles in Lightroom Creative Cloud

I am missing the ADOBE SUPPLIED Nikon D700 and Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera calibration profiles in Lightroom. They were there until I had to reload the apps from CC. I looked in the forums already and haven't found any answer. I have tried to get support from Adobe through Chat and the person there had no clue what I was asking.
I found this answer on a similar question but it does not explain why the Adobe-supplied profiles are missing. To be clear, I am not talking about custom profiles.
"If you are asking about Adobe-supplied profiles, they will be installed every time you update the software so there’s no need to copy them, anywhere, and the reason for not seeing them would be that the current photo is not a raw file since most profiles are only for raw not jpg."
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Calibration profile getting resetted to default on screen wake up

My calibration profile changes back to Apple's default calibration from time to time. This happens when I wake up my screen, from time to time, I couldn't find any correlation.
Opening the display preference panel suffices to reactivate my customized calibration profile (I don't need to reselect it by hand, opening the pref panel is enough).
Anybody has this problem? I don't see anything in the logs of the console, so I'm bit clueless. Google couldn't help either so far.

Found this solution in another discussion topic:
"Color profile bug when waking from sleep with an external display"
It seems that the problem is that the OS is using the default profile for external display when waking up...
The solution is quite simple... just make your calibrated profile the "default" choice...
In one of the following location, your should find at least to profiles for your display :
/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
In my case, I have one named "Syncmaster.icc" which is the "default" one with poor colors. I also have an other one named "Calibrated Syncmaster.icc" Simply trash the "Syncmaster.icc" and rename the other using that former name. Re-open Display pref and select that profile (which is now the only choice)...
Should fix the issue.

Can't get any camera calibration profiles to show up

I am using lightroom 5 on a windows 8 pc and can not get any camera calibration profiles to show up. I have 14 profiles for my Sony SLT-A65 in my cameraprofiles folder and a corresponding camera folder with also has these profiles. I have checked all file attributes and the only thing I see differrent from some other camera profiles is the file ownership is adminisrator instead of system. Also Photoshop does not see any camera calibration profiles either. I have done a lightroom installation repair from original disk which didn't fix. I have all my lens profiles which work fine. I have tried renaming profiles from SLT-A65V to SLT-A65 to match what shows up on displayed file information. Can't think of anything else. Can anyone help??

I have since corrected this issue. I downloaded adobe DNG profile editor and loaded the camera profiles I had and then saved them. At this point all of them showed up in Photoshop and Lightroom. Don't know what the difference was but they are seen now by my programs.
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Missing camera calibration profiles (Nikon P7700)

Until recently I've been able to apply a choice of camera calibration profiles (e.g. Camera Landscape, Camera Portrait etc.) in the Develop Module to images taken with my Nikon Coolpix P7700. However, these have now vanished, and I'm only left with the option of Adobe Standard. When I view photos that I previously applied the missing presets to, I see the old preset (e.g. Camera Landscape) briefly in the Camera Calibration Profile setting in the Develop Module, but then it changes to Adobe Standard.
I think what caused this change was an upgrade to OS X 10.5.8. I haven't changed LR recently, and have been using LR 4.4. It's currently using Camera Raw 7.4; I haven't updated Camera Raw separately, although it may have been updated by OS X? I've tried upgrading to LR5.2 to see if this will fix the problem, but it doesn't.
There are no profiles for the P7700 in Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Camera/ in either ~/Library/ or /Macintosh HD/Library/.
This is very weird and annoying behaviour: LR is changing the camera calibration profiles of all my images, but without warning me!
Does anyone know how I can reinstall these profiles? I've searched extensively for an answer to this, but with no luck.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.

Thanks for that Geoff.
Apologies: I did mean upgrading the OS to 10.8.5, not 10.5.8! I wasn't sure whether ACR was affected by OS X upgrades. And I am viewing RAW files.
If LR has ACR built in, do you know whether it uses the files at Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/Camera/ or does it get the profiles from elsewhere? Something's changed the profiles LR reads on my computer, but if it's not OS X, and since it wasn't an LR upgrade that triggered the change, then I'm stumped as to what's caused this!
If LR does use profiles at the directory above, then presumably installing new profiles there (in ~/Library/) will override the built-in ACR files?
Thanks for your help.

Color artifacts with A7s and A6000 files using Camera calibration profiles

I'm seeing some really obvious chroma artifacts / false colors with RAW files from either a Sony A7s or A6000 when using any of the Adobe-provided Camera calibration profiles that emulate Sony's rendering.
This seems to happen at any ISO, and is very frequent.
If I use the Adobe Standard calibration profile then things look normal, but that's might just be because it produces rather desaturated images compared to the "sony" profiles.
Prior to those Sony cameras I was using Nikon DSLRs for which I had somewhat similar issues when using the first version of the Nikon camera profiles.
Those issues got fixed when Adobe released the "v4" camera profiles.
Below are some examples without any adjustment, the only difference is the choice of camera calibration profile:
Camera Landscape:
Adobe Standard:
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While I am at it....are the Canon camera profiles I downloaded for the 1Ds MKII the same as for the 5D MKII or do I have to download different one...I suspect they are the same or Lightroom wouldn't offer them to me...is that correct?
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Where do I put Camera Calibration Profiles?

Running LR 4.2 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit. I"m shooting with a Nikon D300.
When I look at an image, in Develop, I have a set of choices for "profiles". These include Embedded, ACR4.3, ACR 4.4, Adobe Standard, Camera D2X mode 1,2,3, Camera Landscape, Camera Standard,
Camera Vivid, and so on..............
Before I go wasting everyone's time with questions about additional profiles, is there any advantage to downloading D300 profiles from the Internet? Are they different/better than the standard ones I've listed above?
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Anyhow, at this point I'm not even sure I've got what I'm supposed to have, so can y'all recommend a source for additional profiles (again, if there's any advantage to having them), AND tell me EXACTLY where to put the files? So far, in my rummaging, I've found references to putting them in
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles
c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.2\Resources\CameraProfiles
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fulltankofglass wrote:
I don't have an 'app data' folder.
Everyone has an app-data folder.
The camera profiles folder in resources directory of program files is for built-in profiles only - do not store custom profiles there, otherwise next time Lr is installed, they'll all go "poof".
Here is one easy way to find your app-data folder, and therefore the correct place to store your camera profiles:
Run the 'Camera Raw - Shared Folders' script in this free download I wrote:
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/MiscLrScripts
You will be shown a directory, and in that directory is a folder named 'CameraProfiles' - that's where you want to put them (actually, in a subfolder of that named after your camera model - if problems do share..).
Rob

Camera Calibration Profiles

Does anyone know of a plug in for Aperature to calibrate the colour profile of a camera? I have seen a process used in Lightroom with an xrite ColorPassport and software to create a colour profile to apply across a set of images to correct to a calibrated image set. Looking for an equivalent process in Aperature.

Frank Caggiano wrote:
The section after explaining that if you shoot RAW you don't need to do this does explain how to profile a camera.
Yes, though, that explanation is for using that color profile in the camera ... which Aperture is likely to ignore the profile once the image is imported and apply the canned one-size-fits-all profile that Aperture uses in the background.
What the OP is referring to, in Lightroom/ACR you have the ability to apply several canned camera calibration profiles, as well as any user created profiles. Using these profiles can fine-tune color rendition before any other adjustments are applied ... in other words it eliminates the need for processing presets for a more user preferred starting point which allows all sliders to remain at their default points ... as a bonus, profiles can be created to match color across multiple camera bodies including different models ... and even different brands ... once created they can be applied as default upon import based upon camera serial number and/or ISO as desired ...
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Camera Calibration profiles for Leica M 240

Hi Forum
I'm using LR to process DNG files from Leica M 240.
I understand LR has some extra profiles ( "Camera Faithful, Camera Portrait, etc" ) for some Canon and Nikon camera models.
As under "Camera Calibration -> Profile" I can only see "Embedded" or "Adobe Standard", does it mean these extra profiles don't exist for Leica M 240 ?
Thank you all for any clarification.

Embedded is what you will always see on JPEG images. Adobe standard is the one you will see on your raw images. If you want additional profiles you will have to download the DNG profile creator and make your own. If Adobe standard is all you have then that is all Adobe is providing for your camera.

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4.2
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or
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