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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
12-19-2012, 11:28 AM
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True, but when assigning a color space to match your monitor, as you'd have to do with Windows Explorer, you select the profile as your color space
All correct. The problem is in the color spaces for the image, and you have to basically know where your image is going. sRGB is going to work most often because most people don't have calibrated monitors and the are working with essentially an sRGB profile out of the box. All of the issues brought up in this thread really only become issues for those of us that do calibrate and profile our monitors. In those cases, we need to have an eye for what we are seeing. I mostly save all my images with an sRGB space when they reach their final step because I'm posting on the web or printing through an external web-site or location that works only with sRGB. Those images never look great on my system when I'm browsing with Explorer although that is really no big deal as it seems most of my photography apps these days are color managed. It has become more of a hassle when working with something like PowerPoint or Word (i.e. in an office oriented setting than a photography setting).
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
12-18-2012, 03:35 PM
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With a wide gamut monitor calibration is essential. With a wide gamut monitor, you have to realize that images in non-color managed applications may not look right, but that isn't necessarily because they are bad. This can be especially an issue with browsers unless you ascertain that your browser is color managed and set to be.
As others have stated, you have to save your photos with an sRGB profile to ensure the most compatibility with people outside your environment. However, that profile will look bright and oversaturated in your own environment if your apps are not color managed. An example I had was a nice image I had done of a post-sunset coastal scene. The image was developed in LR and saved with sRGB. I then went to set the image as my desktop wallpaper background in Windows, but instead of having a nice image with lots of blues and purples, my background consisted of a lot of green and turqouise colors that were not what I saw in LR or Photoshop.
I'm not sure the problem was so much Windows Explorer not being color managed but rather that for viewing on my own monitor I needed to save the image with the profile for my own monitor, which was not sRGB. However, I almost guarantee that image will not work on any other computer unless someone just happens to have the same monitor and perhaps a relatively similar profile.
Enough of that, though... As someone mentioned earlier, one of the most important aspects of color management is actually the brightness. I found that I was much more disturbed by what I saw on other computers and prints related to the brightness issues on my own monitor let alone the fact that most monitors are overly bright. Thus, make sure you can do your best and have the ability to get the luminance where it needs to be when you calibrate.
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