Wanna know how your monitor rates against others? Check here.

Would you like to know how your profile compares to others?
Do you want to know how wide a gamut you have?

I do!

(Actually I just want to know how my monitor compares to yours) But once I have a couple profiles I will generally describe my findings in terms of models and brands.

All you have to do is send me your ICC prifile of your monitor.

It would help if you named the profile as:
YourNickname_MonitorBr​and_MonitorMODEL_COLOR​IMETER.ICC

In the end I will be able to actually say: "dells have a small/large gamut and such/such cheap model really seems to stand out and this one is overpriced"

Send me your monitor profile, appropriately named to:

GamutFromPOTN at yahoo dot com


Once I get enough profiles, I will post the results.

Thanks

Sent profile for Dell_XPS_M1710_Laptop_​Spyder2Pro. I forgot to stick my nickname on the front of the file name

Thank you. I'll make a note on the nickname.

Sent mine. Samsung SyncMaster 204t

sent mine as well..

grinchy_gateway_fpd248​5w_spyder2.icc

call me a dummy if you like, but where can I find this file?

Wouldn't you need the graphics card associated with the monitor so as to compare?

dekalbSTEEL wrote in post #3086768
call me a dummy if you like, but where can I find this file?

For Windows XP, you can find the .icm files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\sp​ool\drivers\color

I don't know about Vista or Mac, but I think Windows2000 and Vista are the same.

To be sure, Doc wants custom profiles made with a calibration device. If you didn't create a custom profile and give it a descriptive name, it'll be hard to tell which profile your system is using for your monitor.

As a matter of fact, unless you're using the Windows Color Control Panel Applet, I don't know how to tell what profile Windows is using. Maybe somebody else does.

snake0ape wrote in post #3087051
Wouldn't you need the graphics card associated with the monitor so as to compare?

Absollutely not.

The gamut does depend on the graphic card somewhat, but you get what you get. In the end the colorimeter sees the colors, measures them and all I see is a LAB blob telling me how much a the monitor/card combination can actually display.

dtrayers wrote in post #3087170
For Windows XP, you can find the .icm files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\sp​ool\drivers\color

As a matter of fact, unless you're using the Windows Color Control Panel Applet, I don't know how to tell what profile Windows is using. Maybe somebody else does.

Control Panel/Display/Advanced​/Color Management will show you, but if it hasn't been changed from the Windows default it will be sRGB.

Profile sent- are ICM files OK, too?

cdienzo wrote in post #3087972
Profile sent- are ICM files OK, too?

I don't really know, to be honest.

If you can soft proof with them in photoshop, then I can use it.

tzalman wrote in post #3087921
Control Panel/Display/Advanced​/Color Management will show you, but if it hasn't been changed from the Windows default it will be sRGB.

I got a 4kb bin file from you for some reason.

Yeah - ICC and ICM files are identical. (It's one of those Microsoft things - they didn't want to use the standard ICC extension, so they used ICM).

I sent mine.

EOS MAN_CyberVisionC70_ Spyder2express