Which color profile is more accurate?

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Which color profile is more accurate?

Hi! I recently got a MacBook Pro with Lion and I noticed that the default color profile is Color LCD (which seems a bit too warm to me), and there's also the option to change to Adobe RGB (which is more bluish) or two other RGB profiles. Which one is more accurate? This is really important for me because I work in Photoshop and I would like to ensure that what I see on my monitor is what most people see on theirs and also that my images are going to be printed with colors as close as possible to the ones I see.

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Posted on Jan 14, 2012 10:14 PM

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Shootist007

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Jan 14, 2012 10:52 PM in response to jcbarquet

There are systems to calibrate monitors for color rendition. I would suggest you try one of those to create a custom profile for your MBP screen. If you are doing photography for pay this something you should have.

Personally I don't find my screen to warm and I do all my main image editing on a desktop system with 2 monitors and the one that holds the image, tools on the other monitor, is calibrated with one of these systems.

And then my Printer is calibrated to match my screen.

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carl wolf

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Jan 14, 2012 11:18 PM in response to jcbarquet

"Which one is more accurate?"

For what purpose? There are several standard profiles, and they are accurate for their intended purposes. You don't seem to realize that the profiles for transmissive and those for reflective uses are different.

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jcbarquet Author

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Jan 15, 2012 8:29 AM in response to carl wolf

Indeed I don't realize that; I would appreciate it if you could explain. What are the purposes of the two profiles I mentioned?

By accurate I mean, like I said, more appropriate for working in Photoshop. I am a digital painter and I would like my art to print in the same colors as my screen, and I would also like to make sure that my screen is not too different from what other people see (as I noticed that the colors on a Color LCD profile are quite different to most Windows systems I have used). I am new to Mac and that is why I am asking.

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Shootist007

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Jan 15, 2012 8:32 AM in response to jcbarquet

Tramsmissive is lit from the back, as on computer screens and TVs.

Reflective is from Prints, light bouncing off the image.

Do a google serach for Color, Color profiles, Color matching.

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