Creating an ICC monitor profileYour monitor will display color more reliably if you use color management and accurate ICC profiles. The Adobe Gamma utility is automatically installed on Windows system into your Control Panels folder by Adobe applications that support color management. Once installed, this utility lets you calibrate and characterize your monitor to a standard and then save the settings as an ICC-compliant profile available to any program that uses your color management system. This calibration helps you eliminate any color cast in your monitor, make your monitor grays as neutral as possible, and standardize image display across different monitors. Although Adobe Gamma is an effective calibration and profiling utility, hardware-based utilities are more precise. If you have a hardware-based utility that can generate an ICC-compliant profile, you should use that instead of Adobe Gamma. Depending on your workflow scenario, an ICC monitor profile can be either a source profile, a destination profile, or both. On Mac OS, the system comes with its own calibrator from Apple. You can find this in the System Preferences/Display/Color tab. Related Subtopics: |