One Monitor, Two Profiles?

[Burkey]

Hi Folks,
My 57 year old eyes really need a dim monitor for comfortable reading but for CS2 work to say my home monitor is uncalibrated would be a huge understatement. Does anyone know of a way to toggle via software between two profiles? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
At work I have two monitors, one set very dim for reading and the other on an arm for photo work that's pretty well calibrated . (I have a very supportive employer.)

 

[noci]

well, the windows display settings give you the option of loading different profiles- so if I get your post correctly, and you're only using one monitor at home, you could profile it twice for different backlight intensity levels and just switch between the profiles. then again, if you'd not use the "dark" profile for any actual color correction work, one profile would suffice- namely the "bright" one.
the caveat is that a dark display would hardly perform well for any kind of "actual" work, as you need to calibrate the monitor for a certain degrees K col. temp. to be a viable tool - and I'm unsure whether reduced intensity levels could still do that.

other than that, you might want to download i.e. the nvidia display tools, which offer a lot quicker switching between intensity levels via software / affecting the display LUT- then you'd not have to manually decrease backgr. intensity levels on the monitor itself.

 

[feilb]

Burkey,

Are you using Mac or PC.

Microsoft offers a decent utility for managing color profiles. Its free. You can use it to load any ICC color profile. Check here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/colorcontrol.mspx

 

[noci]

ah, never knew about that one. looks cool.

 

[Burkey]

Hi Folks. . .
Thanks for the input. I'll give the Microsoft "profile" software a try. I'll post after I download it. Again, thanks for the help.
. . . David, (Burkey)