Help with installing 3rd party icc profiles into Windows 10 Color Management.

Flycaster · Feb 18, 2016

Windows 10, Dell U2312HM.

I am having trouble placing two downloaded icc profiles into Windows Color Management. These are the profiles used by Costco in my neighborhood. I have successfully downloaded to my Download folder two icc profiles from Dry Creek (http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/Profiles/Florida_profiles.htm#FL) that I intend to use on my monitor. However, when I tried to add these two downloaded into Color management, I got the following alert message: "Windows failed to associate the profile *.icc with the service "Display 1. Dell U2312HM (Digital-DV) - Intel (R) HD Graphics 530." The printer name is invalid.

ADMint · Feb 18, 2016

All you have to do is right click on a profile and hit install. Then just do what you'd normally do to use said profile. The default location for installed profiles are: C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color

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Pictus · Feb 18, 2016

This are print profiles and not to be associated with your monitor...
They are for soft proofing, but you can place the files at
c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color\

Each device has its own profile and all "talks" through a common color space...

PS soft proofing
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-elements-to-photoshop/soft-proof-for-optimal-printing/

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http://digitaldog.net/files/LR4_softproof2.mov

Lots of great stuff at:
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http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/color-management-printing.htm
http://www.modelmayhem.com/forums/post/852917/1#post17444951

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Flycaster · Feb 20, 2016

Yeah, I'd like to be able to soft-proof, but can't with Faststone, and I'm not ready for PSE, yet. so, at this point it looks as though I'll just profile my monitor to sRGB and hope that is what's being used by the developer.

Pictus · Feb 22, 2016

You can use GIMP http://www.partha.com/
to soft proof http://blog.meetthegimp.org/tag/soft-proof/

mclewis · Feb 23, 2016

Flycaster said:
Windows 10, Dell U2312HM.

I am having trouble placing two downloaded icc profiles into Windows Color Management. These are the profiles used by Costco in my neighborhood. I have successfully downloaded to my Download folder two icc profiles from Dry Creek (http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/Profiles/Florida_profiles.htm#FL) that I intend to use on my monitor. However, when I tried to add these two downloaded into Color management, I got the following alert message: "Windows failed to associate the profile *.icc with the service "Display 1. Dell U2312HM (Digital-DV) - Intel (R) HD Graphics 530." The printer name is invalid.

You cannot associate a printer profile with a monitor. That is why it doesn't work. The error message even tells you that a printer profile doesn't work with a monitor.

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