Monitor Calibration For Vista Issues?

I am looking for information about the current state of custom monitor calibration for Vista particularly concerning whether or not the profiles "stick". This forum has a link to this Microsoft knowledge base article about the problem and a link to a patch from May, 2008. The forum thread also contains assertions that certain nVidia "items" loaded at startup cause the same problems.
So, for those who use Vista and monitor color calibrators, are you still having this problem? Did the patch fix it. Did the latest nVidia drivers fix it? Do those with ATI cards have the same problem?
Thanks in advance.

Had problems with a Vista (laptop), ATI graphics and Spyder2express calibrator.
I would calibrate using Spyder2express, but every time I booted, the profile would load for a few seconds and then unload.
Apparently, it's a startup sequence problem. The S2E profile would load and then the ATI profile would over-ride it.
The only solution I could find was to prevent the Catalyst Control Centre from starting up.
Now everything runs fine.
Steve

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Hello Forum:
I going to work on a hardcover photobook using Aperture 2.1 on my 2nd generation Apple MacBook (2 GHz Intel Core Duo)
1. Which monitor calibration product do you recommend?
2. What adjustments in Aperture should I make to my images to ensure best results?
+Info about images:+
Camera: Canon 30D (8 megapixel)
File type: JPEG (at the largest JPEG mode)
Color Model: RGB
Pixel Size (prior to cropping): 3504 x 2336
Thanks,
Steve

I've heard good reports about Colorvision Spyder 3 Pro and I was impressed at a recent demonstration of the product. Also, it does not seem too expensive (about £100 here in the UK). There is also a higher spec version called Spyder 3 Elite.
I find it hard to answer your second point. Once you are happy that your monitor is giving you faithful colour representation, colour management is in the hands of the the processing lab that Apple has chosen to use, and this varies with region, of course. if it's any comfort, I have always been very happy with the results that I get back. However, the Photobooks that I have put together have all been for non-critical social and family purposes, rather than for any serious or professional use.

How do I set one monitor calibration for the whole system and users?

I'm really angry because when I logged into my first default account, My settings where normal, but I logged into my alt account, the settings where all messed up (NO ONE TOUCHED MY COMPUTER, AND THE ACCOUNT HAS A STRONG PASSWORD) The white balance was that slightly blue one. So, I changed it, and logged in to the alt account again to see it was okay. I want to my main account and used screenlock, and noticed on the login screen (I logged out of the account after I saw to see this same thing) it was the light bluer white balance. So I logged in and calibrated AGAIN and it finally when back to the default on the login screen (2:2 or something and native white balance) and my preferences for my accounts (television gamma, and native white balance) I just want it system wide to be:
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Thanks for helping me make it worse.
First off, if you want help, act like an adult. We're all just other users you're talking to, not Apple employees. Such angry behavior will only ensure that no one will respond to any questions by you in the future.
Second, there's nothing wrong with Kappy's advice. The /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder is accessible by all user accounts. So putting one common monitor profile there and setting it in each account is what you want to do.
What you're seeing is a known issue when switching users without restarting. I don't know if there's ever been a true solution for it.
One of many articles on the subject:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060103162354164
I know the linked article is about Tiger, but the bug persists through Leopard.

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can anyone suggest to me the best calibrator I can buy for under £100? I need to calibrate PB G4, Cinema Dispaly and LCD monitor.
Or is there nothing under £100 that is worth it? Do i have to spalsh out big time?
Cheers,
Svendo

I got the Pantone Huey, under $80.
Very happy with the results, it even has an ambient light sensor to adjust your display's brightness according to it.
The only problem is that will allow you calibrate one display at a time. Can be solved if you call your secondary monitor "primary", calibrate it. Locate the profile just made and copy somewhere else. Switch back your main display as primary and calibrate it. Go to Preference panel, display and on your secondary display set the profile to the previous one.
Can't make it cheaper

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You proably would get better results with the 3rd party device but the built in calibrate supplied by the system can be brought up by clicking the Color tab in the Displays system preferences.

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Could anyone suggest the settings they are using below when calibrating a 23" Cinema Display using a Spyder2? I'm printing with LR using an Epson R2400 and my prints are somewhat darker than the screen version.
Brightness Measurement on Display:<........X........>
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Thanks In advance!
Dave

Could anyone suggest the settings they are using below when calibrating a 23" Cinema Display using a Spyder2? I'm printing with LR using an Epson R2400 and my prints are somewhat darker than the screen version.
Brightness Measurement on Display:<........X........>
Gamma:
White Point:
Thanks In advance!
Dave

Montior/display calibration for photography?

What is the best way to go about calibrating my MacBook display to give me accurate color representation while working with my photographs? When I get them printed, they don't look as good as they do on my screen.
All the tutorials for monitor calibration for photography purposes I can find have been for Windows.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Dave

Hi Dave.
Well, if you want to get really professional, a good idea is to buy some calibrating hardware. Pantone's Huey does a really nice job according to MacAddict magazine (now Mac l Life magazine).
http://www.electronics-batteries.com/digitalcamera_accessories_pantonemeu101.htm
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Hope this helps.

Spyder3Pro monitor calibration in Snow Leopard

I've just tried to install the latest version of Colorvision's Spyder3Pro software for monitor calibration, and it appears to need Rosetta. Since I've decided not to install Rosetta (I can live without monitor calibration for a while), does anyone know if Colorvision are bringing out a native Intel build of software (32- or 64-bit) any time soon?

Are you kidding? Rosetta only takes up 3 MB (not GB) of disk space and has ZERO impact on performance. It's only utilized when you run legacy software, and only while that software is running, and any slowdown is experienced only by that application due to the Rosetta emulation.
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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...
Then the last process says "about to call: reboot (RB_AUTOBOOT).
Continuing...
And stops ...
Hope this means something to you ... Thanks again for your help so far :-)

Monitor Calibration Issue?

When I'm in Develop or Print the brightness and color of a harbor that I photographed look just fine. They also look fine when I call up the printer's print preview window. However, when I print out the photo, the blue water in the shadows takes on a greenish tint and other areas of shadow come out darker than what is shown on the screen. Could this be a monitor calibration problem?

No that is the correct profile. the SP indicates glossy photo paper. The MP
is because this is a multifunction printer. Alas this also indicates the
likely issue. The drivers for many of these cheapo printers simply do not
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those). Sometimes the sequence of when you go into the print settings dialog
matters and the driver will suddenly decide to cooperate as long as you go
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Aloha,
I just downloaded the free trial of CS5. I am trying to use Adobe Gamma to calibrate my screen so that everything will print as I see it. I have already searched all about it. I CANNOT FIND IT TO USE IT. I cannot find where to download it.......I cannot find it already installed with the CS5. Instructions say that I have it when I download CS5 and for me to go under control panel and double click on the icon for it. I DONT HAVE IT. I only have the "Color management" icon which is already on my computer.
I am using Windows Vista 36bit.
A really appreciate your time with reading/responding to this tedious problem. Thanks!
-Brianna.

Not sure if you already found this answer somewhere else, but I found this article...the link for the entire article is...http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps12_colour/ps12_1.htm I was also looking for the same thing, but I guess Adobe no longer provide Monitor Calibration...
Section 2 - Monitor Calibration and Characterisation
Monitor calibration and characterisation (profiling) is probably the most important aspect of a color managed workflow; yet many users seem oblivious to issues poor monitor calibration, etc can have on their documents. So, what is calibration, why is it so important, and why is it different from characterisation?
Calibration is a process whereby a device is brought to a standard state (e.g. a color temperature of 6500K and gamma of 2.2), whereas characterising the monitor is the process of determining how the monitor represents or reproduces color. We characterise the monitor by measuring how it displays known color values, then creating an ICC profile. The ICC profile is simply a data file that includes a description of the monitorsí color handling characteristics (i.e. its gamut). The calibration data will also be written into the ICC profile. As I've already mentioned, Photoshop then uses the monitor profile to automatically optimise the display of documents. It does so by carrying out an on-the-fly conversion between your document profile (e.g. ProPhoto RGB, Adobe RGB, sRGB, ColorMatch) and your monitor profile. This conversion does not alter the actual document in any way; just its appearance on the monitor.
Adobe stopped shipping Adobe Gamma with the Mac version of Photoshop a few versions back, but for a while kept it for Windows. This was because there was no software only alternative. Since Apple Display Calibrator Assistant was still installed within System Preferences Mac users never really found the absence of Adobe Gamma to be a problem. However, given that Windows Vista and Windows 7 don't play well with certain utilities, it was inevitable that Adobe Gamma would eventually be dropped from the Windows version of Photoshop. So, it came as no surprise that as of Photoshop CS3 Adobe stopped shipping Adobe Gamma, and it's still absent from CS5. For what it's worth, I think we can safely assume that Adobe will never again ship a monitor calibration utility with Photoshop.
Obviously, software only monitor calibration applications use the human eye to determine tone and color differences between a series of white/grey/black/color patches. However, it should go without saying that the eye isn't the most accurate method of measuring these differences. Therefore, my recommendation would be to use a hardware based system such as the DatacolorSpyderPro3, X-rite Photo ColorMunki or X-rite Photo i1 Display 2.
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Useful Information on location of ICC/ColorSync Profiles
Photoshop CS5 is only compatible with Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista or Windows 7 on the PC platform and OS X 10.5.7 or higher on the Mac platform. The upside of this is that the ICC and ColorSync profiles are more easily found.
Profile locations:-
Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 - sub-folder named Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color
Mac OS X - ColorSync profiles are generally located in either the Library/ColorSync/Profiles or Users/~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles folder

Dual Monitor Problems with Vista

I have a Lenovo T61 laptop running Vista ultimate 32 bit, SP1. I schlep this back and forth from home to work and put it in docking stations at each location. The docking stations have external monitors attached. At work I have a Viewsonic VX2035wm 20" Wide screen, (16:10) monitor with optimum resolution of 1680x1050. At home I have a Viewsonic VA912b 19" standard aspect ratio monitor with a suggested resolution of 1280x1024.
I typically run in dual monitor mode using my laptop display and the external monitor and extend the display across both monitors. Sometimes I run with the laptop display as the primary monitor, sometimes the external is the primary.
When I take my system from one location to another, generally upon boot or resume it recognizes the different monitor configurations and adjusts the display properties accordingly. However, about once a week I have a problem. For example, I shutdown at home, came into work and attempted to boot the system. Upon boot my external monitor displayed a frequency out of range error and did not display anything else. I suspect that the external port was configured to a setting that was not supported by the monitor. It appears that this was the primary display because my laptop only showed the background and the desktop did not display. Since nothing was displayed, I couldn't click the start menu, any icons, etc. I tried to adjust the monitor configuration by right clicking the laptop screen and selecting personalize, but the personalization dialog would not show up and I suspect that it went to the blanked out external monitor.
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The main point of posting this topic was to point out the appalling service offered by Adobe but, of course resolving this issue would be nice also.
So here goes;
Dual monitor issue (Applies to CS4 applications; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc. but not Flash or Dreamweaver or any other manufacturers software).
I have 2 monitors installed with Windows Vista 64bit, using Nvidia Quadro FX 1700:
-1280 x 1024 (primary display on the left) &
-1440 x 900 (on the right)
With a CS4 application maximised in the larger monitor, all the drop down menus display fine, if the chosen drop-down menu is taller than the height of the monitor (fonts, for instance), an arrow appears at the bottom of the menu so that I can scroll down the rest of the menu. If I then reduce the size of the CS4 application window, move it to the smaller monitor and maximised it again, the drop-down menu (which displayed and functioned fine in the primary monitor) is cropped off so I can't access the rest of the menu.
This might seem a minor irritation, but for batch-processing of merged files (the main purpose for having 2 monitors) CS4 makes the 2nd monitor redundant.
Another, less irritating issue (again, only with the applications named above) is that the window when maximised in the secondary monitor 'hangs over' into the primary monitor.

Monitor Calibration & Lightroom 2

Hello, I have a problem. Normally I shot in RAW, edit the image, save a jpg (with sRGB Color space) resized for an on-line printing service and another jpg in full size and resolution.
Recently I bought a Spyder express monitor calibrator, so I have my calibrating profile called "spyder2express.icc" and I configured in windows xp my display to read this profile.
I edit a raw file with lightroom, but when I export to jpg and I look it with another viewer it doesn't look like the edited raw file, but it is mure saturated and different.
The same thing happened with Photoshop, looking the photo with the software is ok, but the jpg looked with xp viewer, ot faststone capture, or irfanview the jpg is different.
I'm sure that the profile is sRGB, so why this difference?
Is there anyone who can explain me what to do, and how to configure my computer?
Many thanks in advance

Just to clarify above the explanation by the others. Monitor calibration consists of two parts. One part is the calibration of the gamma curve. Gamma basically corresponds to contrast. This part is picked up by all applications and is handled by a correction table (called a LUT for LookUp Table) that is sent to your videocard. The second part is the correction for the gamut of your monitor. The gamut is basically the range of colors it can display. The gamut is determined by the actual wavelengths of red, green, and blue your monitor uses to mix the colors. This is different for every monitor out there and often quite different from sRGB. Some monitors have a much narrower gamut (most laptops) and some have a much wider gamut (the wide gamut displays that lots of people have now made by NEC, Samsung, Dell, etc.- my guess is that you have one of these). So even if you use sRGB, you still have to correct for this in order to display the right color on such displays. ONLY color managed apps do this. Lightroom is color managed as are many other apps such as Photoshop, Firefox 3.5, Safari, etc. However, many apps on windows are not, such as internet explorer, image viewer before vista, etc.

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