Oh, I appreciate your advice, MB. It's just that I don't see anything very complex about the Adobe Gamma program. It's basically a no-brainer. I would just like to get my hands on a real grown-up calibration program - ha!
Indeed, as I am finding out, color is quite the migraine. I would have thought it would be another no-brainer, but I should have known better. Working with PS now for a year and a half I have run into the issue of color in many areas of design work. There's designing for print, where CMYK color knowledge comes into play, and then there's the whole PS color-profile-I'm-not-a-dang-interior-decorator headache.
As far as Preview mode in PS, I'm not sure what you mean. When I'm working on a project I always have the view set to Actual Pixels. Is that what you meant?
Again, when you mention "color calibrate", you mean with the Adobe Gamma? I'm not clear on this. From what I have tried using AG it seems like a pretty simple-minded program. I don't see hardly any difference once I'm done screwing around with it, so I'm not even sure it's doing me any good.
As for the hardware issue I really think I need a new monitor. I've done some homework over the last week, checking out monitors and their specs - as a graphic designer I know I need a flat screen shadow mask CRT monitor (not anistropic), with anywhere between 0.20 to 0.28mm dot pitch (preferrably a 0.25mm).
My computer guy has come to my rescue once again by offering to set me up with one of these babies and just make payments on it. Although, from what I've seen, they really aren't all that expensive.
And yes, I think the new scanner did some anonymous tweaking of its own. I installed a new Canon LiDE 20. Would you know any way for me to find out if it did install its own color profile or settings on my machine? It seems the color profile warning box in PS started popping up right after I installed this scanner.
I appreciate everyone's help. Erik, Chester, everyone ... thanks.
