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Monitor profile is defective

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February 11, 2012
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Every single time I power up CS5 I get an error :

"The monitor profile "Samsung - Natural Color Pro 1.0 ICM" appears to be defective. Please rerun your monitor calibration software.

No other application complain about this.

The monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 226CW

If I go .. Control Panels \ Color Management

I can see that there is a profile "Samsung Natural Color Pro 1.0 ICM (default) file SM226CWicm

It is the ONLY profile listed.

As per a previous post here ... I followed advice to delete the profile ..

I delete it ... I am then prompted to chose a new profile .....from the list shown there is the "Samsung Natural Color Pro 1.0 ICM"

I select that.

Then next time I start CS ... same error message again.

How do I fix this ?

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Correct answer ssprengel

Before you delete the profile, click the Add button at the lower-left and scroll down a little ways choose the one with Name: sRGB IEC6196602.1, Filename: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm

Then delete the Samsung profile and select the sRGB profile and set it as the default.

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Morstreng

Participant

Thanks, 2nd link on google was this post. To: ssprengel thanks, the warning is gone.

My needs: Just a hobby web programmer with a profile that kept giving me the error.

Future: Few more years untill I am done with my current job. Picked up CS5.5 and an 800 Dollar entry Nikon camera (kit). Next I will grab an entry level monitor and calibrator... for now just happy to have the error gone.

To the above debate/anger... many of us just want a fix for an issue... I (and I aussume others) learn from the posts and adapt as best as possible.

Thanks for the knowledge.

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Lundberg02

Inspiring

Morspreng, you are in the wrong thread.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Lundberg02, you misspelled Morstreng's username, besides being wrong. Considering you misspelled 1 of 7 words, that's a 114 percent failure rate!

-Noel

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Keep in mind that if Adobe Gamma was retired, it was because it could also create bad corrections, as our eyes "lie" a lot (they adapt to the surrounding conditions).

Make sure you have a very neutral lighting in the room, have a neutral grey surrounding for your image. Some use a hood, other create black cardboard frame around your monitor.

If you are on windows, use the old user interface (windows classic) with grey title bars. On a Mac, prefer the graphite theme.

A Hardware calibrator analyses only the pixels they see, and are not tricked as our eyes can be.

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TaffladAuthor

Inspiring

Guys ... I'm pretty new to all this side of things.

I don't have hardware color comparator.

I had swapped to using sRGB Color Space Profile.icm on the response above.

Following posts suggets using ADOBE RGB ... I just went and tooka look tahere are 2 ADOBE profiles

ADOBE RGB (1998) and

ADOBE RGB (1998) D65 NP 2.2 gamma

Which of these should I swap to using. ?

The monitor was supplied with "Samsung Color Pro - Color Management system" on a CD, but I have not used that.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Tafflad, in your situation I would try Calibrize, but make sure you start with Adobe RGB. Use the plain one, I've no idea where the other one comes from.

And also keep in mind what I wrote above: anything that is not color managed, like Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, will be over-saturated and wrong on that monitor. But Photoshop will display correctly.

One alternative approach is to look for the monitor's sRGB preset in the OSD menus. This will effectively turn it into a standard gamut monitor, and will solve some of the more immediate problems, and will also allow you to use sRGB as the monitor profile.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

I've seen several similar threads on feedback. It seems that Windows pushes monitors profiles, and most of them are rejected by Photoshop/elements.

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TaffladAuthor

Inspiring

Guys ... it worked ....

Do you know why the Samsung profile does not work ? ....just an eductaion thing for me?

I even downloaded latest version, it installed , and even detected correct GPU etc.

Noel Carboni

Legend

A color profile can be quite complex. There's a good chance Samsung either crafted the profile with software that a) didn't generate a properly formatted or populated profile or b) created a profile using the very latest new standards, which your Adobe software does not yet know fully how to deal with.

It's a bit surprising that Samsung would not have tested it with Adobe Photoshop, however. That's pretty much THE preeminent color-managed application.

Would you be willing to send me a copy of the profile, or post the link from which you retrieved it? Edit: I've just been over to the Samsung.com web site to try to get a copy of that profile and it's maddening! They really need to get their act together regarding how to design a web site. I was unsuccessful.

-Noel

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TaffladAuthor

Inspiring

happy to send copy of profile .. I agree not easy to find the download file took a while ..

I have loaded it at this link.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9ir92cypmve3670

ssprengelCorrect answer

Inspiring

Before you delete the profile, click the Add button at the lower-left and scroll down a little ways choose the one with Name: sRGB IEC6196602.1, Filename: sRGB Color Space Profile.icm

Then delete the Samsung profile and select the sRGB profile and set it as the default.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Actually, just make the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile the (default) using the OS color-management dialog and you don't need to delete anything.

And yep, monitor profiles are often defective. It's a real wonder that monitor companies don't know more about this - what an embarrassment to release such a profile!

-Noel

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