Hmmm, I'm not totally sure.  I don't think it would hurt to ask on the Photoshop forums.

Do you have a calibration system (like a Eye-one display, spyder, etc?)?  If so, then I'd click 'ignore' and run another calibration on your monitor (is it LCD or CRT?) and the new profile should override the Dell profile that doesn't work.

Dunno if there's a way of getting another Dell profile to match the one you have or not.  Maybe someone else has some ideas.

Message Edited by Reneesong on 07-20-200604:46 PM

p.s.  Doing a quick google, here's an article on Adobe Gamma

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321608.html

Just so you know, it's not the best calibration tool to use (if you're concerned with monitor color trueness), but for those who don't care and don't want to buy an expensive calibrating device then it's better than nothing and maybe it'll help your problem.

It's okay.  I didn't know about calibration & monitor profiles until the past month myself.   A calibration system is where you stick a device to the front of your monitor and it takes some measurements and walks you thru calibrating the red/blue/green color controls of the monitor - it puts the monitor in tip top shape for true color sharpness/trueness, it's great for people working with graphics & pictures.  Since you don't have a calibration system, it sounds like your monitor's own profile (from what I understand all monitors come with their own profile to tell it what red/blue/green (RGB) settings to use) may have gotten corrupted. 

What model of monitor do you have?  Do you have a LCD flat panel monitor, or one of the big type CRT monitors? 

I don't have time right now, but hopefully in the next day or so (if noone else helps you), then I can point you to another option for getting a calibration profile on your monitor.  What you'd use is the Adobe Gamma program that should be on your computer since you use Photoshop.  If you do a search for calibration (calibrating) + Adobe Gamma, maybe you can figure out how to do it yourself.  Good luck!

There were a number of Samsung and Dell monitor profiles that gave that error in Photoshop.  If you don't get a hardware monitor calibration device to create a proper color profile, you can get pretty close with the Adobe Gamma - just start with the   srgb color space profile.icm

Also, just fyi, the color profile is specified in: 

Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > Color Management

You can find out a lot more by googling newsgroups for    color management photoshop   ... and there is even a Color Management forum on the Adobe Forums.

Basically color management helps make the image you want to view appear properly.  Color profiles help define to the system the color reproduction properties of the display. 

Hi Markwell.  Thanks for your reply.. I will have my husband do some checking on this.  My new monitor should be here in a day or two.

Again, appreciate the reply...and I will holler back if we find out anything.