Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Spyder 2 & Photoshop

Author

Spyder 2 & Photoshop

Jeff

2005-11-20, 6:17 pm

Hi All,
I'm fairy new to Photoshop (CS2) and have been reading this group for a
few weeks now and found a lot of helpful info.
Today I bought the Colorvision Spyder 2 in order to calibrate my LCD
monitor properly and it seems to have done a good job.

Now during installation of the software, it said that color-managed
applications such as photoshop would use the new profile as the default.
However, when I open a file or create a new one and go to Edit -> Assign
profiles, the default one selected is:
'Working RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1'
I can select 'profile' and then select the profile I created from the
drop-down box but obviously don't want to have to do this with every
file I open!
Am I missing something obvious here?

Thanks,

Jeff
jefftaylor at blueyonder.co.uk

Bill Hilton

2005-11-20, 6:18 pm

> Jeff writes ...
>
> I bought the Colorvision Spyder 2 in order to calibrate my LCD
> monitor ... said that color-managed applications such as photoshop
>would use the new profile as the default

Yes, it will get picked up as the default *monitor* profile.

>However, when I open a file or create a new one and go to Edit -> Assign
>profiles, the default one selected is:
>'Working RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1'

This is a "working space" profile, which is different from a "monitor"
profile.

>I can select 'profile' and then select the profile I created from the
>drop-down box but obviously don't want to have to do this with every
>file I open!

You don't want to assign your monitor profile here, you just use the
monitor profile to view the file on your monitor.

> Am I missing something obvious here?

Yes, the differences between "working space" profiles like sRGB and
AdobeRGB and "device specific" profiles like the one you created for
your monitor. This link will help explain the differences ...
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13605.html

Bill

Jeff

2005-11-21, 6:16 pm

Bill Hilton wrote:

>
> Yes, the differences between "working space" profiles like sRGB and
> AdobeRGB and "device specific" profiles like the one you created for
> your monitor. This link will help explain the differences ...
> http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/13605.html
>
> Bill
>

Bill, Many thanks for the reply.
That explains it perfectly!

Thanks too for that link.

That's one more small step on the road to conquering Photoshop :-)

Cheers,

Jeff