User manual

1 • Starting up and general settings

ColorQuartet 5.0 Pro

Setting up your RGB monitor for ColorQuartet

• Monitors differ in how they display color. To get a good match between the colors you see on

screen and the colors in the final image, you should therefore choose the relevant ICC or ICM

profile (or for Macintosh, ColorSync profile) for your monitor.

• If you are scanning to RGB in order to retouch the image on your own monitor, remember that

when you set up the scan, you must also choose the RGB Proﬁle that corresponds to your

monitor from the list in the Color Deﬁnition section of ColorQuartet’s Scan Setup window.

• You can also create your own RGB Proﬁles, using any software package that can calibrate a

device and save the calibration as an ICC profile.

Macintosh with multiple monitors

If Colorsync 2.5 or higher is installed and you are working with more than one monitor, Color-

Quartet can apply different ColorSync profiles to the different monitors. This ensures an accu-

rate color display in the preview and feedback windows. If a window overlaps two monitors, the

one where the greatest portion of the window is displayed will determine which profile is used.

• Macintosh: choose the appropriate System Proﬁle from the ColorSync

control panel, which is accessed from Control Panels in the Apple menu.

• PC: From ColorQuartet’s File menu, choose Preferences -> Monitor Setup...

and choose the appropriate profile.

The list shows all the RGB ICC profiles that are present in your system,

including ColorSync profiles for Macintosh and ICM profiles for Win-

dows 98 and Windows 2000. If you can’t find an appropriate RGB

Proﬁle, ask your computer supplier for one.

• Macintosh: put the finished profile in the ColorSync folder.

• PC: put the finished profile in the Color folder, which you will find in the Sys-

tem or System32 folder under your Windows installation.