wine users - Jan 2010 - Re: Color Management, icc files, and Photoshop CS2

This is not a photoshop issue. Or not just a photoshop issue. I have another
image processing program, PixInsight LE, that also insists on being told **by
the operating system** what the default monitor profile is.

For windows 2000 the monitor profile (and other profiles) should be in
c:/winnt/system32/spool/drivers/color (if I remember correctly). The location
varies from one version of windows to the next. However, it is not enough to
simply put the monitor profile in the right folder. There is a windows system
function gui called "display" under the windows control panel where
the windows user can tell the windows operating system which profile to use for
the monitor.

What this means for wine users is that ANY editing program that needs to find
out from the operating system what the default monitor profile is, can't be
color-managed under wine unless wine "feeds" the program whatever
system information is needed to say "here, use THIS profile for the
display" to the program that requests the information.

At least as of CS2 (can't speak to more recent versions), Photoshop
doesn't ask you what monitor profile to use and doesn't tell you what
monitor profile it is actually using. There is absolutely no place and no way in
photoshop itself to tell photoshop what monitor profile to use. Photoshop just
consults the system default and then lists that profile in its dropdown
"color settings" box without actually telling you which monitor
profile it's using. If the operating system doesn't specify a monitor
profile because none was set, then Photoshop assumes sRGB, even if the monitor
profile IS listed.

So if you think you have color management under wine with Photoshop, you
probably don't  - I'd love to hear differently and be told how to
achieve the glorious state of full color-managed applications under wine. But
the more likely case is that you just have a monitor that is close enough to
sRGB that you don't see the difference.

Elle Stone wrote:
> 
> So if you think you have color management under wine with Photoshop, you
probably don't  - I'd love to hear differently and be told how to
achieve the glorious state of full color-managed applications under wine. But
the more likely case is that you just have a monitor that is close enough to
sRGB that you don't see the difference.

As I told the OP, if it's not working, file a bug. AFAICT, no one has.