Adobe Gamma question…

I think you misunderstand the purpose of monitor calibration, whether with the Gamma applet or a real calibrating device.
I hope you realize that people have widely varying visual perceptions? I hope you realize that LCD images can seem to differ widely in color, brightness and contrast depending on viewing angle? Someone looking over your shoulder will not see what you see.
Regardless you can use your video driver to switch profiles and image quality at will.
Just don’t expect a color print to resemble what you see on your monitor.

OTOH … IF you take a good image, print it then tweak the monitor to show what’s on the PRINT, you can then compensate for your chain of equipment.
My prints are now WYSIWYG.

Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
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OTOH … IF you take a good image, print it then tweak the monitor to show what’s on the PRINT, you can then compensate for your chain of equipment.
My prints are now WYSIWYG.

That’s a good idea. However, I don’t even have a printer. I have no interest in prints right now. ALL I’m asking is how/where to disable Adobe Gamma w/o removing it from the startup folder and rebooting.

I know that the gamma file is "adobe gamma loader.exe" in the common files>adobe>calibration folder. But once it’s running, does anyone know what it shows up as in the processes listing under task manager? I have Adobe Gamma set up correctly (according to the wizard), and it makes my monitor look a hundred times better (it’s a 19inch LCD, and w/o AG, it looks way too washed out, even on low brightness). But for some of the comic coloring I do, even though to *me* the images have bright, rich colors, some people see them as too light. Henceforth, I’d like to be able to either turn off Adobe gamma (w/o rebooting) or even be able to switch to another calibration, but just while coloring. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
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OTOH … IF you take a good image, print it then tweak the monitor to show
what’s on the PRINT, you can then compensate for your chain of equipment.
My prints are now WYSIWYG.

That’s a good idea. However, I don’t even have a printer. I have no interest in prints right now. ALL I’m asking is how/where to disable Adobe Gamma w/o removing it from the startup folder and rebooting.

Why not try to calibrate your screen with Adobe Gamma – it does work.
My Dell 19" ultra sharp (Samsung) was heaps too bright and I had to set the gamma at 2.65 to reduce the brightness.

Works for me.

I know that the gamma file is "adobe gamma loader.exe" in the common files>adobe>calibration folder. But once it’s running, does anyone know what it shows up as in the processes listing under task manager? I have Adobe Gamma set up correctly (according to the wizard), and it makes my monitor look a hundred times better (it’s a 19inch LCD, and w/o AG, it looks way too washed out, even on low brightness). But for some of the comic coloring I do, even though to *me* the images have bright, rich colors, some people see them as too light. Henceforth, I’d like to be able to either turn off Adobe gamma (w/o rebooting) or even be able to switch to another calibration, but just while coloring. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Rob wrote:

Why not try to calibrate your screen with Adobe Gamma – it does work.
My Dell 19" ultra sharp (Samsung) was heaps too bright and I had to set the gamma at 2.65 to reduce the brightness.

Works for me.

It works fine for me. The problem is other people are seeing it too bright. IOW, even though the colors are much richer now, with Adobe Gamma, the previous, un-gamma-ized(?) monitor seems to be closer to what others are actually seeing, but it’s horribly washed out to me. I just want to be able to turn it off for when I do color. Turning it back on again is simple, but I can’t find the process to end in the Task Manager.

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:09:52 GMT, Fungusized
wrote:

I know that the gamma file is "adobe gamma loader.exe" in the common files>adobe>calibration folder. But once it’s running, does anyone know what it shows up as in the processes listing under task manager? I have Adobe Gamma set up correctly (according to the wizard), and it makes my monitor look a hundred times better (it’s a 19inch LCD, and w/o AG, it looks way too washed out, even on low brightness). But for some of the comic coloring I do, even though to *me* the images have bright, rich colors, some people see them as too light. Henceforth, I’d like to be able to either turn off Adobe gamma (w/o rebooting) or even be able to switch to another calibration, but just while coloring. Any suggestions? Thanks!

I’m kind of guessing here…

I think you willl find that there is not a process running that you can turn on and off. The program runs once at startup and sets up some parameters in a register somewhere and that’s it. Those parameters stay set until something else resets them.

Can’t you just go to control panel and load a new monitor profile? – guessing again…

Yep you have to take it out of the Auto start and manually boot the exe file to start it again. (could use a short cut on the desktop) then stop it with task manager. What a hassel!!

Sam wrote:

Yep you have to take it out of the Auto start and manually boot the exe file to start it again. (could use a short cut on the desktop) then stop it with task manager. What a hassel!!

But you can’t, that’s the issue, smart ass 😉

It would help if you read the original post.

Sam wrote:

Yep you have to take it out of the Auto start and manually boot the exe file to start it again. (could use a short cut on the desktop) then stop it with task manager. What a hassel!!

But you can’t, that’s the issue, smart ass 😉

It would help if you read the original

"Fungusized" wrote in message

Sam wrote:

Yep you have to take it out of the Auto start and manually boot the exe file to start it again. (could use a short cut on the desktop) then stop it with task manager. What a hassel!!

But you can’t, that’s the issue, smart ass 😉

It would help if you read the original

post.

Have you tried looking in the Control Panel? Adobe Gamma has a tool there.