[mr. burns]

hey there,

i'm a graphic design major and it's pretty important that my older monitor be calibrated for accurate colors. whenever i use the color sync calibration tools, i get good color again, except for the fact that photoshop and certain jpegs become really weird looking and oversaturated. in photoshop, every image i open and all the color swatches are like this so it becomes completely useless. when i open the system prefs, some of the icons are this way as well. but when i go to the displays prefs and set the color profile to generic RGB, all these problems vanish, except for the fact that there's the natural red tint from age. i've tried using different monitor temperatures and everything.

has anyone else had this problem and come up with a solution? i can't stand using this generic profile. would using a colorimeter solve this problem maybe?

arg.

[mydog8mymac]

Mr. Burns,

This is a common problem for people doing serious design work. Do a search in this forum for "color calibration Illustrator and PhotoShop" (something like that) and make sure all your settings are the same in PhotoShop and Illustrator, choose Color Sync as a conversion engine etc... MacDog posted screen shots of his settings and there is a lot of good info in the thread that will guide you to choose your settings according to your needs (web, print, calibrated profiles etc...)

Good Luck!