Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/28/02 6:16:59 PM, mwesley250@... writes:

>The profile generated by the Colorvision software from the spyder data
>is
>only good for use as a monitor profile. This profile, in Windows at least,
>is applied as the system boots up and is in use for all applications.

Not the profile, actually, jsut the RGB channel curves that it contains... if 
red on your monitor is quite orange, these corrections will make it a nice, 
smooth orange, but not a correct red.

 In
>Photoshop with the monitor profile running you get an accurate translation
>of the data from the color space of the file to your screen.

Yes, Photoshop and other ICC savvy applications then applies the color 
correction part of the profile, now making the reds on your monitor the 
proper hue.

C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
CDTobie@...