Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search](re. my problem of edits in Photoshop 5 LE displaying lighter than they subsequently do in a Web browser or any other program, Austin had suggested that I use Adobe Gamma to calibrate my monitor) > > Thanks, Austin, but I'm using Photoshop 5 LE, > > I was unaware that LE didn't have that! Are you sure? > Austin: Unfortunately, Adobe Gamma is not included in Limited Edition. See http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/1c37a.htm I have used gray scales I've found on a number of sites to get my monitor to display the full range of grays. I don't think that's the problem. I think PS 5 LE is using either a default gamma, or a default color space (perhaps its own Adobe RGB 1998) that you can't change. Or both. Regardless, PS 5 LE is operating in a different universe than everything else on my system, which is just sending RGB pixels to the monitor unadulterated. And unlike the full version, there are no obvious adjustments to make everything the same. So the same file always looks a little lighter in PS than it does in anything else. This holds true for any file I've tried, including several from other people's Web sites. On both my home and work computers. What really ticks me off is that I have to deal with this stuff for even for B&W (though I understand why this is). Photoshop's tools are nice, but not if what I see is not what I get. I repeat--does *anyone* know how to make Photoshop 5 Limited Edition display things the way they will appear in non-color-managed software? Surely I'm not the first person in the world who has this problem. - --Peter