Has color management been fixed yet in X9?

[GMack]

For a long and annoying time it seemed impossible to start X8 without it interfering with my colors. Whether I enabled or disabled Color Management the colors were changed. Also I was unable to set my monitor profiles as I desired through the user interface.

Finally I found some settings in the Registry which solved the problem for me. Maybe this is useful for others as well:

Open Regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER_SOFTWARE\Corel\PaintShop Pro\X8\General\ICMSettings.After I changed MonitorProfile to the profile I want to use (the others were correct already), X8 has been behaving very well. See screendump with details below.

Worth a try and I would like to hear if others find this helpful. In that case we might be able to hold the fort till Corel delivers proper functionality.

Willy

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Well, this is interesting!

I looked at my registry entry and it is bizarre. It shows two different hardware profiles (My old i1 Display Pro and the newer i1 PhotoPro 2, plus some Printer profile, and the sRGB too. I've turned the silly X8 Color Management on and Off and it changes the screen to something else. More bizzare is why the Eizo CG248-4K running their own Color Navigator 6 software has a hissy-fit with both the color (When I use that monitor.) as well as the gamma too, and it uses its own LUT and own calibration hardware. It just hates PSP X8 for whatever reason.

So maybe setting all four of the profiles to the same profile, hardware or whatever profile Corel provides, is the key? I would expect that my TargetProfile which shows an Epson 3880 Premier Art Glossy White Canvas.icm to also be the PrinterProfile which is sRGB Color Space Profile.icm. Why they differ is strange.

Maybe setting it all to sRGB is the key, although not a hardware calibrated one nor a good idea if the monitor/screen is Adobe 1998 RGB tolerant. Sort of hard to dig deep into the registry to change it all each time too.

Somehow, Corel should fix this if this is what is confusing the registry. A hardware calibration shouldn't show up differently in two different registry keys, nor should that happen with a printer profile either that writes two different entries. No wonder it changes!

Mack

[WillyV]

Just a further note. Turning OFF/Unchecking Color Management is not the only issue. You need also to check the Image, graphic or text generated by in Color management. Above the Enable Color Management check box

Thanks, that's an important point. One tends to become fixed on the Enable Color Management check box as the Big On/Off Switch for PSP's involvement with colors and unfortunately that's not what it does.

Willy

[flagpole]

Fortunately for me I really only develop for web.

[JoeB]

That looks like the Corel engineer in charge of coding color management!