Monitor color profile

Patrick Eisen

• April 25, 2020 20:36

Hi,

 

I did not find where to set a monitor profile in C1.

I know I can use a profile when I output the image via a recipe or when I print.

But I do not find how I can effect the preview I'm editing.

A specially if I load a monitor profile with a D50 white point the colors of the preview shift.

My assumption is as long I use only colors from the sRGB space (like a standard gray) changing a profile should have no effect on the view. Of cause I would expect different values in the readout.

 

Thanks

Patrick

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  BeO

  • April 25, 2020 21:35
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  If you softproof sRGB or any other e.g. print profile with C1 or Affinity Photo, and probably others, it cannot simulate a different monitor profile, the monitor  profile of your system prevails. White point, contrast ratio etc. you have to set the monitor profile for your monitor in your computer. Thats my observation on my Win 10 machine with Eizo Color Navigator.

  For example, if I plan to send an Adobe RGB file to a printing service, I softproof the paper print profile in C1, and in my system I set AdobeRGB for my monitor. I do my adjustments to the variant and then export with AdobeRGB. If I develop for web, I softproof sRGB in C1 and set my monitor profile to sRGB with Color Navigator.I do my adjustments and then export to sRGB. I do not print by myself.

  That's my understanding of how color management could work in practise for the two use cases I described, such practical advise I have not found somewhere, so it is based on my own best educated guess. If somebody knows a better way I would love to hear...

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  Patrick Eisen

  • April 25, 2020 22:10

  I see.

  I use also Eizo Color Navigator which set the profile into Windows 10.

  As Walter wrote: f I then pick the same profile under View > Proof Profile this works as expected.

   

  It would be nice if I could pick one like Selected Recipe but more like Selected Windows Profile.

   

  Patrick

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  IanS

  • April 26, 2020 14:49

  Not a colour management guru but, as far as I understand, you don't use your monitor profile for assigning to an output. The monitor profile is used by colour managed software (C1) and the OS to display whatever your output profile needs to be. For example if you are outputting for web you would use the sRGB profile in your recipe.If you want to output to a D50 space you use the relevant ICC profile and C1's soft proof will emulate it for you.

  If you are printing it would be the relevant ICC profile for your ink and paper. C1's soft proofing routine will show you the way the image will looks when printed. The classic situation is that a normal sRGB image being printed on matt paper will look low contrast and lacking in black level. Using the soft proof feature you then adjust the image so that contrast is increased and black levels increased.

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  Patrick Eisen

  • April 26, 2020 16:04

  How to use ICC profile in output I know.

  The interesting Question was how to influence the monitor profile.

  If you have a medium saturated color. It should stay the same if you switch the profile of your monitor and it does if you follow the answer of the first two who answered.
  The point is exactly that C1 is not following the Windows profile automatically you have to choose it in the proof profile.

  There you can choose a specific profile of to follow the selected recipe profile or printer profile.

  Sadly you can not choose to follow the current Windows profile.

  So if you choose the correct profile in C1 the statement above will be true.

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