Re: RGB Setup

["Gary L. Hunt" <glh@srv.net>]

The "monitor" item is the name of the monitor profile which
is being used by PhotoShop to display your images.  
It should NOT be the same as your RGB working space 
(in the top box), which is NOT normally your monitor
profile.  The top selection represents the (hopefully) device-
independent space in which you are doing your editing.  
Photoshop does an "on-the-fly" profile-to-profile conversion
from the editing space to the monitor space for display
purposes only--it does not affect your image, only the screen
display.

The reason the "monitor" entry is not editable is because
it is defined outside Photoshop (i.e. in Windows, for PCs)
so that it can be used for other applications as well.

By the way, I could be wrong here, but I believe that if 
Monitor (in PS) is "Adobe Monitor Profile" and your
Wiziwyg monitor profile is named something different,
this means that your Wiziwyg monitor profile is not
actually the one being used for display.  You may
have a conflict within Windows (if you're using a PC)
between two different monitor profiles.  I had this
problem for days, with Adobe Gamma Loader trying
to use one monitor profile, Wiziwyg another one, and
Windows (and thus PhotoShop) still using the default
Windows profile.  Not a good thing.

Gary Hunt <glh@srv.net>

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At 02:30 PM 12/30/1999 -0700, Donald A Schiemann wrote:
>What is the significance of the lower line in the Photoshop RGB Setup menu
>entitled Monitor:?  It can not be edited in this menu, and shows a different
>selection (Adobe Monitor Profile) in my program than the one I select in the
>top box entitled RGB: (my WiziWYG monitor profile).  Should they not read
>the same?  Thanks.
>Donald


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