Comments on: Computer Monitors and Digital Color http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/computer-monitors-and-digital-color/ Photography Tips & Techniques Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sean Mullins http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/computer-monitors-and-digital-color/#comment-1303 Sean Mullins Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:24:43 +0000 http://test.picturecorrect.com/?p=669#comment-1303 Hi, I must admit, even though I'm from a technical background, I find the whole issue of color management pretty confusing. I only recently found out that although I had been using the spyder 2 hardware device to calibrate my monitor, because I hadn't gone in and changed the Photoshop Color settings (The calibration process install led me to believe this wasn't necessary) most of my work was in vain. Interestingly, I tested your tip, If I set the sRGB directly in Photoshop Color I get pretty bad (severly oversatuated) results - If instead I select Monitor color (after setting Windows to use sRGB colour space as you show above) I get much better results, very close to using the spyder calibration profile, even though I would have expected both to give the same result. So I guess I'm still confused about color management!! Hi,
I must admit, even though I’m from a technical background, I find the whole issue of color management pretty confusing.
I only recently found out that although I had been using the spyder 2 hardware device to calibrate my monitor, because I hadn’t gone in and changed the Photoshop Color settings (The calibration process install led me to believe this wasn’t necessary) most of my work was in vain.

Interestingly, I tested your tip,
If I set the sRGB directly in Photoshop Color I get pretty bad (severly oversatuated) results -
If instead I select Monitor color (after setting Windows to use sRGB colour space as you show above) I get much better results, very close to using the spyder calibration profile,
even though I would have expected both to give the same result.

So I guess I’m still confused about color management!!

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