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Offline boj

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Can Photo Mechanic handle monitor ICC-profiles v4?
« on: October 10, 2011, 03:18:24 PM »
Hi support staff!

I'm using Photomechanic v4.6.7 for both Windows XP with servicepack 3 and Mac OSX Snowleopard.

My questions:
* can PhotoMechanic in Windows handle colors correct if I have a monitor ICC-profile v4 (or must I have a ICC-profile v2)?
* can PhotoMechanic in Mac OSX Snowleopard handle colors correct if I have a monitor ICC-profile v4 (or must I have a ICC-profile v2)?

There is an ongoing interesting discussion in a Swedish web forum ( www.fotosidan.se , in swedish language only I'm afraid) about version of ICC-profiles and if different software can use it or not. It seems that many programs can't handle profiles v4 in a proper way.

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Re: Can Photo Mechanic handle monitor ICC-profiles v4?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2011, 04:31:30 PM »
I'm using Photomechanic v4.6.7 for both Windows XP with servicepack 3 and Mac OSX Snowleopard.

My questions:
* can PhotoMechanic in Windows handle colors correct if I have a monitor ICC-profile v4 (or must I have a ICC-profile v2)?
* can PhotoMechanic in Mac OSX Snowleopard handle colors correct if I have a monitor ICC-profile v4 (or must I have a ICC-profile v2)?

Photo Mechanic uses Microsoft's ICM (on Windows) and Apple's ColorSync (on Mac OS X) so if the OS can handle those profiles, then so should Photo Mechanic.

-Kirk

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Re: Can Photo Mechanic handle monitor ICC-profiles v4?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2011, 12:29:29 PM »
Thanks Kirk, your answer helps a lot.

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Re: Can Photo Mechanic handle monitor ICC-profiles v4?
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2011, 07:37:01 AM »
Even so, I've found that the colors don't match those rendered with Photoshop or NX2.  See this thread for an example:

http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=6541.0

Deven