Answer: you can’t set the monitor profile in Photoshop

Why?

Because you don’t need to. Any monitor profile is common to your whole computer and not just Photoshop. Photoshop reads the profile you created from the computer’s operating system – there’s no need to set anything.

So how do I know which profile I’m using? How do I know that the monitor profile I just created has been recognised by the computer?

Adobe Gamma or your calibrator will know which operating system you are on and should automatically create the right path to save the new monitor profile to without needing any intervention from yourself apart from giving it a name. For example, on a Windows XP PC the profiles are stored in:

C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color – where “C” is your drive that you have your XP installed.

You can navigate to this folder to check or use one of the two methods below.

Method 1: Checking via the Display adaptor (Video Card) settings:

1) Close all windows so you can see your desktop

2) Right-click the desktop and select properties This will show the following dialogue box:

3) Click the settings tab – here’s our settings tab

4) Click the advanced button – this brings up a new dialogue box with a number of tabs

5) Click the color management tab

6) You can see a list of colour profiles that the device has recognised. The one highlighted is the current one in use and should be the one you just created and named

Still not convinced?? Ok then,

Method 2: Seeing your monitor profile from inside Photoshop

1) Open photoshop (this is based on CS2 but this dialogue box is in every version of PS from v5 I think!)

2) Click edit on the top menu then color settings from the dropdown to display this dialogue box

3) Under the working spaces (in blue) box click the dropdown arrow next to the RGB working space

4) Scroll up the dropdown list with the sidebar until you see monitor rgb – XXX

5) XXX should be the name of your new profile if it is the profile assigned in your operating system (we checked that in Method 1)

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First off, you’ll need a video card with a DVI output in your PC. Most modern video cards will have a DVI output no problem, they’ve been around for a while now. The ACD works with a digital not analogue signal which is why you need one! If you are buying the 30″ ACD you’ll need a video card with dual-DVI output. The monitor is so large that it needs twice the juice from your computer to run it.

Once you connect it up it will run fine but there will be two problems you’ll notice:

1. You won’t be able to turn it off completely. Even when your PC is off the backlight will glow dimly in the dark.
2. You won’t be able to use the brightness buttons on the side of the ACD to set your brightness.

The fix is by way of a small HID driver for Windows called WinACD that is not only free but will cure all your problems and give you some options about how the ACD interacts with XP.

Here are some screenshots of the application:

You can download WinACD here

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