I use Eye-One Display 2 at my office for calibrating and profiling LCD monitors, but I use Adobe Gamma on the road to 'ballpark' the projectors I use for speaking events.
I really need my Adobe Gamma!
No, it is not there either.
Of course on my CS2 computer, it is there and in the Control Panel.
I'm guessing that Adobe is finished with Adobe Gamma and this is how we all find out.
If I manually add the Calibration files to the CS3 computer, Adobe gamma will load and work, but it will not install the loader for the startup menu. ?
If you are running Vista look in here:
c: \ program files \ common files \ control panels
there you will find *adobe gamma.cpl*
copy this to your windows \ system32 folder and it will appear in you control panels list.
>If you are running Vista look in here:
>c: \ program files \ common files \ control panels
>there you will find *adobe gamma.cpl*
Not there on my Vista Ultimate machine with CS3. It *was* there when I had CS2
installed, though.
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No question, I can (and did) manually add Adobe Gamma, but my question was - has Adobe stopped installing Adobe Gamma with the release of Photoshop CS3?
Adobe Gamma is no longer distributed with Photoshop. Many experts argue that visual 'calibration' doesnt really exist and give a false sense of security (every person sees slightly different etc), plus the fact that it is not suitable for LCD monitors.
You are expected to buy a hardware calibrator. Like it or not.
Personally, I'd have to say that Adobe Gamma was better than nothing. Hardware calibrators are not cheap.
If you are an amateur, use a CRT monitor, and dont want to spend money on a hardware calibrator, try
QuickGamma (I have no experience with this, but it comes recommended by others).
I dont think so either, but factor in the number of Photoshop users, and how many of them are actually going to buy a hardware calibrator. Are we better or worse off as a whole?
I understand what you mean: Better Adobe Gamma than nothing. But, if I follow your reasoning (and I think I do), I'd hope that we would be better off in a general sense if general users would start thinking more appropriatedly about what is colour reproduction. That means no eyeball, use a calibration device, use a proper illumination, etc...
so not only are they charging us more (even for the standard version, don't get me started about the extortion edition!) but now we don't have imageready (buy flash!) and we don't have a calibrator (buy external). jeez louise!
maybe they're developing adobe gamma into a for pay application... wouldn't suprise me.
I think you are missing the point. Software calibration is not calibration. Really, it isn't. Now we just need to educate the whole user base save for the top pros on this.
well in answer to the original quesion: NO, Adobe still distributes AdobeGamma with CS3. I told you how to find it. It's just not installed (for whatever reason, I thought it mught be due to Vista)
And whats this crap about gamma correction NOT working on LCD's? what rock have you been living under?. I bounce from office to office doing temp contracts, and first thing I do is calibrate everyone's monitors using Adobe Gamma, you wouldnt believe the results. If you can more closely match the colour onscreen to the printed output then there's bugger-all guess work involved.
Sure most LCD's dont have the rich black of a CRT, but every monitor can benefit from some gamma correction and colour adjustment. Maybe you just have no idea how to use the program...
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