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What's covered Creating and loading a monitor profile Configuring color settings Creating a proof Using Adobe Bridge to synchronize color settings This document provides instructions for setting up a Color Management System (CMS) workflow in Adobe InDesign that provides a close match of on-screen and printed color among InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. A correctly set-up CMS ensures that Illustrator and Photoshop images imported into InDesign appear and print as expected.
To achieve accurate color output, you first create a monitor profile and then configure color settings in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop so that all three applications address color similarly. If you have Adobe Creative Suite 2, you can use the Creative Suite Color Settings in Adobe Bridge to synchronize the color in all of your Adobe Creative Suite applications. You must also note the following limitations: - Printed appearance is consistent only with a CMYK output device that uses Adobe PostScript Level 2 or later. Illustrator doesn't embed International Color Consortium (ICC) profiles in EPS files. Important: Disable color management in your printer driver to achieve accurate results if you are using a CMS workflow within Adobe applications. For more information, see, 'White box or color wash prints around transparent objects (InDesign 2.0 and later).' For more information about color management in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, see the Help section for the application you are using.
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Creating and loading a monitor profile Each monitor displays color differently-to compensate, you must create a monitor profile and then load it. If you have third-party software that can create a monitor profile (for example, E-Color Colorific or Apple ColorSync 2.5 or later), use that software to create a monitor profile. If you don't have a third-party monitor-profile utility, create a monitor profile using Adobe Gamma or the Apple Display Calibrator. Note: Neither Adobe Gamma nor the Apple Display Calibrator produces a reliable profile for flat-panel monitors. If you use a flat-panel monitor, either use a third-party utility to create a monitor profile or load the monitor profile included with the monitor. To create and load a monitor profile using Adobe Gamma in Windows: 1. Choose Start Settings Control Panel.
Double-click Adobe Gamma. Click Step By Step Wizard, and then click Next. Follow the on-screen instructions. Click Finish. Enter a name for the ICC profile, and then click Save. The ICC profile is saved in the default profile folder: - (Windows XP) Windows/System32/Color - (Windows 2000) Winnt/System32/Spool/Drivers/Color 6.
Choose Start Settings Control Panel. Double-click Adobe Gamma. Click Step by Step Wizard, and then click Next. Click Load, navigate to the profile, and then click Open. Exit from Adobe Gamma. To create and load a monitor profile using Apple's Display Calibrator in Mac OS X: 1. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences Displays.
Click the Color tab. Click Calibrate. Follow the on-screen instructions. Enter a name for the profile, and then click Create.
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The ICC profile is selected in the Color tab and saved in the default profile folder: -Users/ user name/Library/ColorSync/Profiles Configuring color settings InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop include several preconfigured settings for working spaces and policies for color images, and can share color settings via user-created.csf (Color Settings File) files. You can either use one of the preconfigured color settings or create your own settings (and then save the.csf file). To achieve color consistency among InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, you must select the same color setting (whether preconfigured or user-created) in all three applications for CS and CS2 versions, or in the Color Settings dialog box in Adobe Bridge for CS2.
Prepress Defaults setting produces output most closely matching that from an offset press. To select the U.S. Prepress Defaults setting, do the following in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop: 1. Choose Edit Color Settings to open the Color Settings dialog box (if you use Photoshop in Mac OS X, choose Photoshop Color Settings). Select Enable Color Management (InDesign only).
Prepress Defaults from the Settings pop-up menu. For information on creating a.csf file in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, see the Help section for the application you are using. Creating a proof Before sending your InDesign document to press, create a proof by either printing to a printer or exporting to a PDF.
When printing in a color-managed workflow, make sure to disable CMS and any image-enhancing features that the printer may have. Disabling CMS and the printer's image-enhancing features allows the application from which you are printing to control how the printer reproduces color. For information on how to disable CMS and other image-enhancing features, see the documentation included with your printer. To create a printed proof from InDesign: 1.
In InDesign, choose File Print. Click Setup (Windows) or Printer (Mac OS). If InDesign returns an alert that settings you make in the printer driver dialog may contradict settings you make in the InDesign print dialog box, click OK. Do one of the following: - In Windows, select your printer in the Select Printer list, and click the Layout tab, then click Advanced. In Mac OS X, choose Printer Features from the pop-up menu below the Presets menu.
Disable options that refer to color correction, print quality, or image smoothing in the Printer Features section of the driver. (Features vary by printer; refer to the printer documentation to see which of your printer's features you should disable.) 6. In Windows, click OK. Click Print to return to the Print dialog box. Print the document.
To create a PDF proof from InDesign: 1. Choose File Export PDF Presets PDF/X-3. Note: The PDF/X-3 standard creates a PDF file designed specifically for the prepress environment that includes support for color-managed images. Name the file, choose a location to save it to, and then click Save.
Click Export. Start Acrobat 6.0 or 7.0 Professional. Choose File Open, and select the PDF file created in the previous steps.
Choose Acrobat Preferences (Mac OS X) or Edit Preferences (Windows), and select Color Management from the list of options on the left side of the dialog box. Choose the setting that you chose in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop from the Settings pop-up menu, and then click OK.
Using Adobe Bridge to synchronize color settings In Adobe Creative Suite 2, you can use Adobe Bridge to synchronize your color settings across all of your Adobe Creative Suite applications. To synchronize color settings: 1. Open Adobe Bridge. Choose Edit Creative Suite Color Settings. Select the appropriate color setting file.
The Adobe default files and saved files are listed. If the file you want is not listed, then check to show the explanded list of color setting files. Click Apply to assign the selected color settings to all your Adobe Creative Suite applications.
To set up personalized color settings that you can select in Adobe Bridge, open Color Settings in one of the Adobe Creative Suite applications, set and save your settings from that application, then open Color Settings in Bridge. For assistance on creating and saving color settings, see the Help section for the application you are using.
The relationship between the input signal and the luminance of a monitor is not linear but exponential with gamma being the exponent. A gamma value of 2.2 has become the de facto standard in Windows, the Internet and the digital photography. This means that only monitors with a gamma value of 2.2 will produce a correct output. Despite the fact that the gamma values of monitors have improved over the years, many monitors still have a gamma value that deviates more or less from 2.2. A correction is therefore required to achieve optimal results. The monitor gamma can easily be corrected to 2.2 using QuickGamma. More information and detailed instructions on how to use QuickGamma are available by pushing the Help button in QuickGamma.
Terms of Usage. QuickGamma consists of the program QuickGamma.exe, the help file QuickGamma.chm and the printable help file QuickGamma.pdf. All the constituent parts of QuickGamma are Copyright Protected.
They are not Public Domain Software, but free of charge for private use. Any commercial use requires a written consent by the author. QuickGamma with all its constituent parts may be installed and used on any suitable computer for private use and may be distributed freely as long as these conditions are met:. QuickGamma is distributed as complete and unaltered installation package.
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Distributing single constituent parts of QuickGamma is not permitted. The distributed QuickGamma installation package is free of any charge. Warranty Disclaimer.
The author gives no warranties, either expressed or implied, that this software is fit for a particular purpose, or will perform adequately at all times. This software is licensed 'as is', and so you (the user) are assuming the full risk of using it. If this software causes any damage in any way, then you must bear the full burden of the damage caused. QuickGamma Version 4 does not work on any Windows versions prior to Windows 7 and consists of the program QuickGamma.exe, the help file QuickGamma.chm and the printable help file QuickGammaHilfe.pdf. All other files that have been part of previous versions of QuickGamma are not required anymore because QuickGamma Version 4 now utilizes the Windows 7 Display Calibration feature. Microsoft has introduced a new feature called Windows Display Calibration into Windows 7. Detailed information about how to use the Display Calibration can be found at.
Besides offering a visual calibration wizard, this feature supplies a LUT loader, which automatically loads the LUT at system start up and whenever else the LUT needs to be reloaded (after waking from Standby or Hibernate for instance). The LUT is a hardware based Look Up Table in the graphics card and provides a means of input value to output value mapping for the RGB pixel values and thus can be used to implement a Monitor Gamma correction.
Apple has been using the LUT since many years for its operating system built in color management. In fact, Apple has registered the private ICC Profile tag video card gamma table (vcgt) with the International Color Consortium (ICC).
This tag is used in a dedicated Monitor Profile and holds the gamma values, which are then loaded into the LUT by a loader program. Hardware based Monitor Calibration Systems also use the vcgt tag, which in this case contains the correction data to achieve the monitor calibration. Because Windows did not provide a LUT loader, each calibration program had to provide its own LUT loader program. This was working fine for quite some time until Windows came up with Standby and Hibernation. Unfortunately, the LUT loader programs were unable to cope with those Windows features and thus the LUT was reset each time when resuming from Standby or Hibernate. To make things worse, the graphics card manufacturers came up with programs that were installed along with the graphics card driver and allowed the user to play with colors and gamma.
These programs were also resetting the graphics card LUT at system startup, which caused a race condition with the LUT loaders of a Hardware based Monitor Calibration Systems. The program that was loading the LUT last won.
Things changed when Windows 7 came along and provided its built in calibration loader, which not only loads the LUT at system start up, but also takes care of Standby and Hibernate. All it takes to utilize the Windows 7 LUT loader is to install a Monitor Profile with a vcgt tag containing the LUT data and to make this profile the default profile for the respective monitor. Because such a profile is not available by default, the Windows 7 Display Calibration feature is not active by default and must be activated manually. The visual calibration wizard included in Windows 7 could be used for display calibration, but the images used for the visual calibration are not suited for the job.
This is where QuickGamma Version 4 comes into play. QuickGamma Version 4 still contains Norman Koren's excellent gamma images, but now creates a monitor profile with a vcgt tag containing the LUT data.
The profile is automatically installed, defined as the default profile for the monitor and the Windows 7 Display Calibration feature is automatically enabled. There is no need for any supporting programs anymore because QuickGamma Version 4 is all it takes to achieve a good visual monitor gamma calibration. Download QuickGamma. Download QuickGamma V4 from this webpage. QuickGamma Checksums. The following checksum ensures that the downloaded version of QuickGamma is indeed an unaltered original version.
SHA-256: 1f97a012ab0206c739a584f8b59a1842a629b30721c5e98ed1344df810b1118a. Download Runtime Libraries. QuickGamma requires the 32 Bit runtime libraries mfc100u.dll and msvcr100.dll to be installed. These libraries are part of the 'Visual Studio C 2010 SP1 redistribution package', which can be directly downloaded from Microsoft.
Installation. If a previous version of QuickGamma is currently installed, open that version and write down the Red, Green and Blue gamma values. Uninstall the previous version before installing QuickGamma Version 4. If you do not uninstall the previous version of QuickGamma then all parts of the prevous version that are not part of the new version will still exist.
Besides some files, a number of unused Registry entries will still exist. Once the new version has been installed, open it and set up the previously written down Red, Green and Blue gamma values. Make sure to read the new help file. There are quite some changes in QuickGamma Version 4 compared with previous versions. To install QuickGamma, simply open the downloaded QuickGamma installation file. If the required Runtime Libraries are not yet installed, download the Microsoft Visual C 2010 Redistributable Package (see link above) and install it by opening the downloaded installation file. That's all, QuickGamma is now ready to use.
Support QuickGamma. Please support the QuickGamma project with a small donation. Any amount is greatly appreciated, just think about it how much QuickGamma is worth to you personally. Select Language. Version Information Current version: 4.0.0.4 New Features / Error Corrections:.
See the detailed description in the left column for version 4.0.0.1. When using multiple monitors, the wrong EDID data might get used. Version 4.0.0.2 solves this problem and should definitely be installed when using multiple monitors.
When using Windows DPI scaling, minor rendering problems might occur. Version 4.0.0.3. Solves these problems. Monitor names longer than 50 characters cause QuickGamma to produce an invalid ICC monitor profile and thus color managed applications will issue an error message. Version 4.0.0.4. Solves this problem.
Operating System Requirements. Windows 7 or higher. Visual C Runtime Libraries For more information look under Runtime Libraries in the left column. Additional Programs. Tools & Utilities The Tools page currently contains 3 programs.
The first and most important tool reloads the LUT after resuming from standby/hibernate. This tool comes in handy when calibration tools like the X-Rite i1Display 2 (iMatch Version 3.6.2 software) do not reload the LUT upon resuming from standby/hibernate.
This tools is not required in QuickGamma Version 4 anymore. The next tool lists the current LUT for any attached monitor.
The third tool allows to check the quality of gamma charts.