color profile madness

February 8, 2010 at 1:50 am Leave a comment

I have a Cintiq 21ux since forever it seems now, and I always had issues with the colours being “off” on the normal iMac screen. Obviously the reason lies in the ICC profiles… I thought. They were set the right way however, and embedding the right profile in the picture didn’t help either.

After a lot of fondling around with the profiles on both screens, I decided to do a restore factory settings on the Cintiq. Yet the problem remained. Until I found out that the Default color setting was wrong.

The temperature of the colours was at 6500k, but naturally that doesn’t match the ICC profile at all. The setting “Direct” however did the trick. I have to fix all the colouring now in my pictures, but at least I know they’re going to be the same almost everywhere.