<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Display profile locations</title> </head> <body> <h2>Where display profiles are stored, and how to load them automatically.<br> </h2> <br> Installing a display profile for your monitor is very operating system dependent, which is why <a href="dispwin.html#I">dispin -I</a> is a good way of taking care of all these details. On some systems it is not the operating system itself that supports display profiles, but individual applications, or helper programs.<br> <br> Please choose from the detailed instructions below that suite your system:<br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="#MSW">Microsoft Windows</a><br> <a href="#OSX">Apple OS X</a><br> <a href="#Linux">Linux/UNIX X11</a></span><br> <br> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="MSW"></a>On <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Windows</span>, display profiles are typically in one of the following directories:<br> <p> MS Windows Me and 98: C:\Windows\System\Color<br> </p> <p> MS Windows NT: C:\Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color </p> <p> MS Window 2000, XP and Vista: C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color</p> <p>An alternative to using <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -I</span> to install your display profiles, is to use the Display Property dialog, advanced settings, Color management tab, and locate the profile and install it there. This in itself does not cause the profile to be made use of anywhere in your system.<br> </p> <p>If you are using Adobe Photoshop on your system, then you can tell it to use your monitor profile by editing the appropriate registry key, typically "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Color\Monitor\Monitor0", to contain the name of the display profile, and then restart Photoshop This is the simplest way of ensuring that the Adobe calibration loader utility Adobe Gamma loads the video hardware lookup tables from the vcgt tag, and uses the profile as its display profile.<br> </p> <p>The adobe gamma utility can be told to use your profile, but the procedure is slightly tricky: Open adobe gamma from photoshop (in the Help->Color Management... menu item), select "Open Adobe Gamma", and select the "Load.." button. Select your profile and "Open". Select "OK" in the Adobe Gamma, it will then ask you to save it's modified version of your profile under a different name. Chose a name for the modified profile, and save it. Exit from Photoshop. Copy the profile you want to use, over the modified profile that you saved in Adobe Gamma. (If you don't do the last step, the profile Photoshop will be using will have been modified in strange ways from what you intended.)<br> </p> <p>Installing a profile on Microsoft Windows generally doesn't mean that the profiles calibration will be automatically loaded into a display on startup. A separated utility is usually needed to achiev this.<br> </p> <p>Some Microsoft Windows applications may come with "Gamma/VCGT/RAMDAC/Video LUT" loader utilities, consult their documentation and check your Start Menu Startup folders. If you don't want to use any of these 3rd party utilities, you can also use the <a href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html">dispwin</a> utility to do this for you, as it takes either a <a href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/cal_format.html">.cal</a> or ICC file as an argument. The <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcalib/">xcalib</a> utility could also be used.<br> </p> <p>To add a startup item that will load a profiles calibration into the display using <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span>, use the following instructions:<br> </p> <p style="margin-left: 40px;">On the task bar, right click and select "Properties", then select the "Advanced" tab, then click "Add..". then browse till you locate dispwin.exe. In the box containing the path to <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin.exe</span>, add a space then the option <span style="font-weight: bold;">-L</span>, eg:<br> </p> <p style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -L</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px;">If you don't want to use the default installed profile, you could explicitly set the calibration file to use as an argument:</p> <p style="margin-left: 40px;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin c:\myprofiles\mydisplay.icm<br> </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 40px;">Click "Next >", select the "Startup" folder, then name the item (ie. "Argyll Calibration Loader"), then press "Finish".<br> <br> You can test it out by simply navigating the "Start" menu to the "Startup" folder and selecting the item you've just created. If you want to alter any of the details, navigate to the item again and right click it, and select "Properties". More than one startup item can be created to set the calibration for more than one display. You may want to cut and paste the "Target" line to a normal Command Prompt shell to check that it works as expected, as it is impossible to catch error messages in the startup.<br> </p> Microsoft Windows <span style="font-weight: bold;">XP</span> has an optional <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP</span> available for download from Microsoft, which handles installation and registering of the a display profile, and will also automatically set the display calibration on system startup. The applet is started from the control panel, and first you have to "Install..." the profile in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Profiles</span> tab, then associate it with the display in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Devices</span> tab, but <span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTE</span> that it seems to have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">bug</span>, in that it sometimes associates the profiles with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">wrong monitor</span> entry!<br> <br> On Microsoft <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vista</span> you can set the display profile in Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Color Management, as an alternative to <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -I</span>. In Devices you select "Use my settings for this device", and then add the profile you've created. Unfortunately though, it doesn't use the 'vcgt' calibration curves on system startup, so a utility such as <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span> will still have to be used to do this. Note that currently Vista also has a <span style="font-weight: bold;">bug</span> that causes the calibration curves to be reset whenever the User Account Dialog (and similar) is displayed. This problem can only be worked around manually, by re-running the startup item whenever this happens. Note that due to the details of this bug it is necessary to actually reset the calibration to something else before re-setting it. This can be done quite conveniently in dispwin by adding the <span style="font-weight: bold;">-c</span> flag: e.g.: <span style="font-weight: bold;">c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -c -L</span><br> <br> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="OSX"></a>On <span style="font-weight: bold;">Apple OSX</span>, the display profile are in one of the following locations:<br> <br> /Network/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br> /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles<br> /Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br> ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles<br> <br> Note though that /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles is only for profiles supplied by Apple. You can use <a href="dispwin.html#S">dispwin -S</a> to select the appropriate scope when installing a profile using <a href="dispwin.html#I">dispwin -I</a>. You can use the "System Preferences->Displays->Color" utility to check that the profile has been installed correctly. Note that the contents of the description tag (the argument to the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">-D</span></span> flag used with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">colprof</span> utility) will be used to identify the profile.<br> <br> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><a name="Linux"></a>On <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span> and other <span style="font-weight: bold;">Unix</span> style systems, there is no universally agreed location for ICC profiles yet, although the following locations have been suggested at various times:<br> <br> /usr/share/color/icc<br> /usr/local/share/color/icc<br> ~/.color/icc<br> <br> although particular applications may use their own locations, such as:<br> <br> /usr/local/share/Scribus/profiles<br> <br> Argyll <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin</a> follows uses the <a href="ucmm.html">ucmm</a> scheme for storing user and system display profiles, and when a display is set to use a profile correctly, it will follow <a href="http://www.burtonini.com/computing/x-icc-profiles-spec-0.2.html">this convention</a> to make it available to applications.<br> <br> If you want the display calibration to be loaded, you should consider installing a utility to do so at startup, such as <a href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html">dispwin</a> or <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcalib/">xcalib</a>.<br> <br> Using <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin</a> the currently installed profile for a particular display can be loaded using the <a href="dispwin.html#L">-L</a> option of <a href="dispwin.html">dispwin:</a><br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin -L</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br> <br> </span>which will both upload the installed profile <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>into the <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>root window _ICC_PROFILE property, and also load it into the display VideoLUTs. <br> <br> You can use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">dispwin</span> <a href="file:///D:/src/argyll/doc/dispwin.html#d">-d</a> parameter in the usual way to select other displays to store or load the calibration using the _ICC_PROFILE property.<br> <br> To do this when you start your X11 server, you could put the above command in your <span style="font-weight: bold;">.xinitrc</span> file in your home directory for each screen.<br> <br> <br> </body> </html>
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