This is by no means a PC-only blog but given the number of users on PCs and the widespread issue around these calibration profiles unloading after restart or wake-up, I thought this quick tip would help many of you with this problem. The symptom is that after calibrating your monitor and creating the ICM profile, you restart your computer to see that the new profile loads properly as soon as your calibration software profile loader kicks in (startup) but then a few seconds later your notice your screen goes back to its uncalibrated mode, indicating your calibration profile was unloaded for some reason. This profile reset (LUT reset) also happens when you wake your computer from sleep mode. (more…)

When Adobe released Lightroom 2.0 they also released beta versions of a number of camera profiles from different manufacturers with the intent of providing a more accurate RAW reading and interpretation for individual camera types and brands. The complaint from photographers has been that since ACR used the same default values for all RAW formats, not everyone was getting a decent image when first opened in ACR/Lightroom. (more…)