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Where display profiles are stored, and how to load them + automatically.
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+ Installing a display profile for your monitor is very operating + system + dependent, which is why dispin -I 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.
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+ Please choose from the detailed instructions below that suite your + system:
+
+ Microsoft + Windows
+ Apple OS X
+ Linux/UNIX X11
+
+
On Microsoft Windows, display + profiles are typically in one of the + following directories:
+

    MS Windows Me and 98: C:\Windows\System\Color
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    MS Windows NT: + C:\Winnt\system32\spool\drivers\color +

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    MS Window 2000, XP, Vista and 7: + C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color

+

An alternative to using dispwin + -I + 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.
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+

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 + tool Adobe Gamma loads the video hardware lookup tables from the + vcgt tag, and + uses the profile as its display profile.
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The adobe gamma tool 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.)
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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 tool is usually needed to achiev + this.
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Some Microsoft Windows applications may come with + "Gamma/VCGT/RAMDAC/Video LUT" + loader tools, consult their documentation and check your Start + Menu + Startup folders. If you don't want to use any of these 3rd party + tools, you can also use the dispwin + tool to do this for you, as it takes either a .cal or ICC + file + as an argument. The xcalib + tool could also be used.
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To add a startup item that will load a profiles calibration into + the + display using dispwin, + use the + following + instructions:
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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 + dispwin.exe, add a space + then + the option -L, eg:
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    c:\bin\argyll\dispwin -L

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If you don't want to use the default + installed profile, you could explicitly set the calibration file + to use + as an argument:

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    c:\bin\argyll\dispwin + c:\myprofiles\mydisplay.icm
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Click "Next >", select the + "Startup" + folder, then name the item (ie. + "Argyll Calibration Loader"), then press "Finish".
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+ 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.
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+ Microsoft Windows XP has an + optional Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP + 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 Profiles tab, then associate it + with + the display in the Devices + tab, but NOTE that it seems + to + have a bug, in that it + sometimes associates the profiles with the wrong monitor entry!
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+ On + Microsoft Vista you can set + the display profile in + Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound + -> Color Management, as an alternative to dispwin -I. 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 tool such as dispwin will still have to be + used + to do this. Note that currently Vista also has a bug 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 -c + flag: e.g.: c:\bin\argyll\dispwin + -c + -L
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+ On + Microsoft Windows 7 you can + set + the display profile by opening the Color + Management control by clicking the Start + button and then clicking Control Panel. + In the search box, type color management, + and then click Color Management. + Make sure the correct display device is selected in "Device:", and + then tick the "Use my settings for this device" box. Select "Add..." + and then "Browse..." to locate and load the profile. (Alternately + you can use the normal file browser to locate the profile, and then + right click on it and select "Install Profile". In the Color Manager + "Add..." dialog you can then select it.). Make sure that the new + profile has been marked "(default)" if you want it to be + automatically used for your display.
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+ By default Windows 7 seems to automatically load the default display + profiles calibration on startup, but needs to be told to do this at + all other times by changing the system defaults, or if some 3rd + party tool to load display calibration has been installed. This can + be done by logging on with a user account that has administrative + privileges, then opening the Color Management + (see above), and then select the "Advanced" + tab, and then "Change system defaults...", then + select the "Advanced" + tab, and select/un-select the "Use Windows display calibration" + check box. (You could use dispwin + -I as an alternative to this if you really wanted.)
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On Apple OSX, the display + profile are in one of the following + locations:
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+     /Network/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
+     /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles
+     /Library/ColorSync/Profiles
+     ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles
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+ Note though that  /System/Library/Colorsync/Profiles is only + for + profiles supplied by Apple. You can use dispwin + -S  to select the appropriate scope when installing a + profile + using dispwin -I. You can use the + "System + Preferences->Displays->Color" tool to check that the profile + has been installed correctly. Note that the contents of + the description tag (the argument to the -D + flag used with the colprof + tool) will be used to identify the profile.
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On Linux and other Unix style systems, there is no + universally agreed location for ICC profiles yet, + although the following locations have been suggested at various + times:
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+     /usr/share/color/icc
+     /usr/local/share/color/icc
+     ~/.color/icc
+
+ although particular applications may use their own locations, such + as:
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+     /usr/local/share/Scribus/profiles
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+ Argyll dispwin follows uses the ucmm scheme for storing user and system + display + profiles, and when a display is set to use a profile correctly, it + will + follow this + convention to make it available to applications.
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+ If you want the display calibration to be loaded, you should + consider + installing a tool to do so at startup, such as dispwin + or xcalib.
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+ Using dispwin the currently installed + profile for a particular display can be loaded using the -L option of dispwin:
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+     dispwin -L
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+ which will both upload the installed profile into the root + window _ICC_PROFILE property, and also load it into the display + VideoLUTs.
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+ You can use the dispwin -d parameter + in + the usual way to select other + displays to store or load the calibration using the _ICC_PROFILE + property.
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+ To do this when you start your X11 server, you could put the above + command in your .xinitrc + file + in your home directory for each screen.
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