Adobe
Gamma Control Panel Recommended Settings
Adobe
Systems provides the Adobe Gamma Control Panel with Photoshop, and this installs
automatically when Photoshop is installed. You can access Adobe Gamma by clicking
on the Windows Start button and by selecting 'Settings
Control
Panel'. Then double-click on the Adobe Gamma control panel to begin calibrating
your monitor. See the following screen shots to locate Adobe Gamma.
Arrow Camera recommends
you choose the Step by Step Wizard.
If you do not
know your monitor’s phosphor set, please select "Trinitron".
In this screen, Arrow Camera recommends
you select the "View Single Gamma Only" checkbox. Move the sliders below the box
until the center box blends with the backgroud. TIP: It helps to squint slightly
when doing this.
In this screen, Arrow recommends you select
6500°K, then click on the Measure button. The Measure dialog box will describe
three squares which will appear on your screen. Follow the instructions to choose
the most neutral gray square.
Select the gray
that appears most neutral (neither too blue, nor too red). Once you do this, the
squares will rearrange, and when you are satisfied that the center square is neutral,
click on the square in the center to set your choice.
PLEASE
NOTE: Your monitor may appear to have changed color when you finish this part
of the control panel sequence. Usually, monitors come from the factory set to
a factory default color, most often 9300°K. Although our eyes adapt to this color
setting, it is too blue for critical color judging, whereas 6500°K is very close
to natural sunlight. Even if the screen looks too warm (red) when you first choose
this neutral gray square, your eye will adapt to the new color, and give you a
more realistic presentation of how your color should look.
When
you select the center gray square, this screen will appear: Select Finish and
you will automatically be taken to this square directly above. Select the Finish
button and you’re finished profiling your monitor.
You
will be prompted to save the newly created profile in the C:\Windows\System\Color
folder. Be sure each profile you create has a unique name. Including the date
in the name is a good convention to follow. It is also a good housekeeping idea
to throw away outdated profiles.
Congratulations!
This is the first critical step in being able to prodict more accurately how your
color will reproduce.
for
Macintosh users
To launch the Control
Panel, on the Macintosh, open the Control Panels folder under the Apple Menu,
and select Adobe Gamma, as shown below:
When the Control
Panel launches, you will see the following screen:
Arrow recommends
that you use the Step by Step (Assistant) version. When you click on Next, the
following screen will appear:
Use same
profile name as shown above.
When this appears,
highlight the text that appears next to the word Description, and type a distinct
name for your monitor profile. In the example in the screenshot above, the name
of the computer and the date on which the profile was created are part of the
name of the profile.
When you click on
Next, the following screen will appear:
Follow the instructions,
and click Next. The following screen will appear:
Unless you know
the specific phospors setting for your monitor,Arrow recommends you set
your monitor to Trinitron.
When you click
Next, the following screen will appear:
In this screen, Arrow Camera recommends you to select the "View Single Gamma Only" checkbox.
Move the sliders below the box until the box blends with the background. TIP:
It helps to squint slightly when doing this.
Then,
set your Gamma to Windows Default, and 2.2 will automatically appear in the box
to the right. The Adobe recommended workflow uses the Adobe RGB 1998 color space,
which has a Gamma of 2.2. Arrow recommends you use this Gamma setting when
preparing images for Arrow Camera ICC workflow.
When
you click Next, the following screen will appear:
Click on the Measure
button, and the following screen appears.
Clicking on the
next button will show the following screen, on a full screen black background:
Select the gray
that appears most neutral (neither too blue nor too red). Once you do this, the
squares will rearrange, and when you are satisfied that the center square is neutral,
click on the square in the center to set your choice.
PLEASE
NOTE: Your monitor may appear to have changed color when you finish this part
of the control panel sequence. Usually, monitors come from the factory set to
a factory default color, most often 9300°K. Although our eyes adapt to this color
setting, it is too blue for critical color judging, whereas 6500°K is very close
to natural sunlight. Even if the screen looks too warm (red) when you first choose
this neutral gray square, your eye will adapt to the new color, and give you a
more realistic presentation of how your color should look.
When
you select the center gray square, the following screen will appear:
Arrow Camera recommends
that you follow the Adobe standard of 6500°K, as shown above. If the window next
to Adjusted White Point does not already say 6500°K, as shown above, click on
the pulldown menu and select 6500°K(daylight) so that the screen looks the same
as the one above this paragraph. Then, click Next, and the following screen will
appear:
You can see the
difference between your original settings and the adjusted settings by clicking
on the Before and After buttons. Then, click Finish. If you are working on a Macintosh,
the control panel will automatically save the profile you’ve just created to the
Color Sync Profiles folder. When the Save Dialog window appears you can change
the name of your profile if you wish to do so. Then, click Save, and you’ve successfully
used the Adobe Gamma Control Panel to create an ICC profile for your monitor.
Be sure each profile you create has a unique name. Including the date in the name
is a good convention to follow. It is also a good housekeeping idea to throw away
outdated profiles.
Congratulations!
This is the first critical step in
being able to predict more accurately
how your color will reproduce.  |
