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Originally Posted by naskies
Mike,
Yes, it's a shame that support for colour profiles is so poor and/or awkwardly implemented by operating system and consumer software alike. I've noticed that some companies, such as Dell, have resorted to shipping some of their wide gamut monitors in "sRGB mode" by default. Fewer tech support calls to deal with, I suppose...
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I was coping ok with this thread until that point. I have a great Dell U2410 monitor which I love but had stuck with it in sRGB mode.
If I switch it to Adobe RGB mode, the colours on screen change quite noticeably, particularly when looking at bioluminescence images like this:
http://philhart.com/content/biolumin...nd-lakes-again
The blues change from pale, almost washed out in sRGB to vivid, highly saturated (perhaps too much so) in Adobe RGB.
I can understand that change if I was looking at an Adobe RGB file in Photoshop, where the monitor in sRGB mode couldn't display the gamut but it could in Adobe RGB mode.
But the web images are sRGB so why do they display so much differently between the two modes? It's like the monitor is stretching the sRGB image to make full use of the Adobe RGB gamut, when what I really want is to see those sRGB files the way others would. (This seems like an undesired kind of rendering intent in the monitor, but there doesn't seem to be a setting for that?).
So now if I use the monitor in Adobe RGB mode, I see the pictures differently to what most people would using an sRGB monitor, but if I use the monitor in sRGB mode then I see them (much) differently to somebody using an Adobe RGB monitor. Arghhh..
Phil