Photoshop and monitor calibration

Hi,

I calibrated my monitor using i2, and I have a profile. I went to control panel and saw that it was selected.

This may be a dumb question, but do I need to assign photoshop to this profile too, or do I still use RGB? Thanks

Photoshop and Lightroom pick up the profile automatically.

If, though, you also use DPP you have to set the profile in Tools/Preferences in the Color Management tab.

I know you said you use PS, but a lot of people, including myself, use PS and LR and DPP so such things are good to know!

kurt_cobain wrote in post #11499979
Hi,

I calibrated my monitor using i2, and I have a profile. I went to control panel and saw that it was selected.

This may be a dumb question, but do I need to assign photoshop to this profile too, or do I still use RGB? Thanks

In PS/LR/DPP you pick the gamut you want to work in, sRGB/Adobe/Prophoto etc.

kurt_cobain wrote in post #11499979
Hi,

I calibrated my monitor using i2, and I have a profile. I went to control panel and saw that it was selected.

This may be a dumb question, but do I need to assign photoshop to this profile too, or do I still use RGB? Thanks

bohdank wrote in post #11500100
In PS/LR/DPP you pick the gamut you want to work in, sRGB/Adobe/Prophoto etc.

Ah, good you picked up on that!

"kurt_cobain", do you "get" that there is a difference between a monitor calibration/profile, and you "working color space" (aRGB, sRGB, ProPhoto RGB)? The monitor profile instructs the software how to work with display, the color space instructs the software as to how the colors of an image/images have been rendered and how they should be interpreted. They are dealt with separately -- like I said, PS picks up the monitor profile automatically. The working color space is something you set in your Color Preferences and handle images accordingly.

tonylong wrote in post #11500136
"kurt_cobain", do you "get" that there is a difference between a monitor calibration/profile, and you "working color space" (aRGB, sRGB, ProPhoto RGB)?

THat's what I figured; was just confirming with this question.

So it sounds like I'm done calibrating... I'd just like to know "for sure" that it all worked and I'm calibrated for sure. I also have a laptop with an external monitor, and I had to set the external to be my "primary" moniotr through windows before the calibration would work. Do I have to make it primrary every time before I edit, or does the system know that I'm using that monitor, therefore it should use that .icc file?