On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Karen Thompson wrote:
Jennifer,
I looked at your screen shots. I was having a problem with my Sawtooth
G4
and my Sony LCD monitor. Some photos would show up great and others
would
have way too much magenta. It was especially noticeable with the Adobe
Acrobat Splash screen. The background was no longer the same and the
flesh
tones in the Acrobat guy were magenta. I fooled around with
calibration,
saving the color profiles differently in Photoshop, etc. I finally
hooked my
PowerBook G4 17" and everything was perfect on that LCD monitor and the
Sony. The end result was I bought a new video card (ATI Radeon 9000
Pro Mac
Edition) and my photo issues were resolved. So can you find someone
with a
laptop to try that experiment? Maybe your video and G3 upgrade can't
play
nicely together.
Good luck resolving your issues. I know how frustrating it can be.
I nearly went crazy with the bad color of my LaCie 22 inch monitor
after I upgraded to OS-X. All my digital photos took on a sight but
sickening greenish-yellow cast in X. I tried to correct it in the color
calibration in OS-X System Prefs, I tried Adobe Gamma, I tried the
monitor's own color controls. No matter what I did, any digital photo
viewed either in Preview, Photoshop, or any other graphic program
returned to that slight greenish-yellow cast. It was maddening.
But then I noticed that whenever I dropped back to OS-9 (this is a
dual-boot G-4) the color was fine, showing good natural skin tones in
all digital photos. The greenish cast was gone. So, I took a copy of
the monitor color profile from the OS-9 folder and inserted it into X,
deleting all other color profiles in X, and now I have good color in X
as well as in 9. So, while I could not make any adjustment to any
existing monitor color profile or control in X that would give good
color, simply dropping the monitor profile that worked in 9 into X did
the trick. Weird, but I figured don't argue with success.
I blame something in OS-X for the bad color and the inability to adjust
it out. I'm just glad I was able to boot back into 9 and borrow the
monitor color profile that gives good results there. Those who start
out with X's color profiles, or switch to X and then delete or lose
their OS-9 System settings, may be stuck with the crummy colors, unless
they find some method of correcting it that I am not aware of.
Tom
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