andyjaggy82 wrote:
Along those same lines. The core of windows is not color managed either. So if you are using a wide gamut display you may notice that all of your thumbnails in windows explorer look super saturated, but when you open up the image in windows picture viewer it looks correct. That is because windows/explorer/desktop are not color managed, but windows picture viewer is. Images will look super saturated in thumbnails, and also if you set them to display on your desktop they will look too saturated. Again it depends on images, and similar to your experience I notice the most difference in images with lots or reds.
I believe that the entirety of OSX is color managed, so mac peeps don't have this problem.
The reverse problem can happen as well. If you are using a standard monitor (non wide gamut) and using Adobe RGB, which is capable of defining more saturated colors, your images will look under-saturated, because your monitor cannot display the full range of colors defined by the Adobe RGB space. This is why you always heard to use SRGB for more saturated colors and that Adobe RGB caused muted colors. That is true only if you aren't using a wide gamut display.
It takes quite a while to wrap your head around all of this stuff, I still don't fully understand it all. ...Show more →
Really appreciate you posting this information! I do know most of it, as a student and teacher of color management, but there was an element here that I did not understand.
BTW, I should have also mentioned that I always embed the SRGB profile.
