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Originally Posted by philiphart
I'm using the monitor presets for sRGB and Adobe RGB. They may not be perfect but I reckon they'll be pretty good for a monitor of this standard.
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Even high end monitors designed for colour critical work need calibration. The Dell monitor probably has defaults that make it look "good" i.e. bright and flashy.
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Originally Posted by philiphart
I can understand why the image would look different in colour managed Photoshop.. if I view an Adobe RGB image with sRGB monitor setting then naturally enough it must show the image in the reduced colour space. But I don't understand why the images online look so much different when I switch colour spaces on the monitor.. it should be shown within sRGB gamut with both monitor settings? I guess that's where my misunderstanding might be.. the browser is not colour managed at all so the monitor uses its full gamut to display the images even though they are nominally sRGB?
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With no colour management the RGB values are just sent directly to the screen to interpret as it sees fit. Say you have an 8-bit colour which is completely green <0,255,0>. On a screen set to sRGB gamut this will give you the maximum green. On a screen set to AdobeRGB gamut it will be the maximum green in that wider gamut, i.e. more saturated.
So, what you are seeing is what I'd expect...
Cheers,
Rick.