Hey Pat, I honestly believe the problem is something having to do with the calibration being built-in & also applied through Windows. I have a hunch that the monitor is compensating through hardware, and then the ICC profile is making the same corrections through Lightroom so what I'm seeing in a final version isn't accurate. I called BenQ this morning (very friendly) and they have a specialist who deals with all the calibration issues. He's only back on Wednesday due to holidays in the US but I will follow up after our conversation if you're interested! For now I just have the monitor on its own sRGB mode (the factory calibration was OK) and I've been able to just get work out with that. I always take a shot of a grey card, and can edit skin tones with the info pane in CMYK so that'll hold me over until I get some assistance! ... View more

Hey D, my apologies if I'm not being clear. It was just a matter of photos looking screwy if they were edited on my BenQ SW2700PT and then converted to sRGB through Lightroom; the resulting jpegs were looking too red and saturated once I was viewing them on _any_ other screen (my Surface, my ASUS screen, my wife's MacBook, my iPad, my iPhone etc...) I was just looking for some colour management advice since I've only been using a Windows machine for Adobe programs for a week. This is was never an issue on my iMac where I would just calibrate every week with my Spyder4 and then jpegs would end up how I wanted them. I've been a professional photographer for 10 years now. I know that profiles are loaded on start up. I know that ICC profiles are different than a calibration. I've been searching on Google all week and pouring through many reviews. I found a blog where the reviewer says he made 2 different calibrations: 1 to use in sRGB and one for Adobe RGB, because the BenQ monitor allows you to switch through both. I just want to nail down a workflow and I honestly think I'll just be calling BenQ on Monday and asking a few questions. I just want to know when I calibrate should I start from the sRGB mode on the monitor, or the Adobe RGB? When the calibration ends and turns it into an ICC profile do I have to change that AS WELL as the monitor setting (ADOBE/sRGB) when I want to work in either space? If LR uses ProPhoto RGB should I be editing using an sRGB preset on my monitor because that's my final output? What workflow should I use if I'm going to be editing with CMYK as the final destination or Adobe RGB? etc... ... View more

Per Berntsen​ First off I'd just like to thank you again for keeping up with me here. You're a saint! Ok, so I followed your steps, and not much was changing as I was going through the profiles. However, the photo looks dull on my BenQ but fine on my ASUS (the gaming monitor) I'll post the screenshot for you: Dropbox - 2017-07-01.png Here is the image as it appears on each monitor: BenQ: Dropbox - 2017-07-01 (1).png ASUS: Dropbox - 2017-07-01 (2).png So you can see the exact same image appears different on both monitors. The BenQ is calibrated using Palette Master software, and there is also an ICC profile associated with the BenQ in Windows' color management setting (do I need the ICC profile if the calibration is saved on the monitor itself?) So my problem is whenever I'm editing photos on my BenQ, I'm oversaturating them, so when they appear on other monitors they're all messed up! ... View more

Yeah I have Calibration 1/Adobe RGB/sRGB on my hotkeys! ... View more

Yeah the first thing I did when I got the monitor was Google that stuff. So I've always had it in V2/matrix! I think I'll have to call BenQ and start dealing with them lol. ... View more

Per Berntsen​ Abambo​ The monitor is an SW2700PT and I use my Spyder4 sensor, but it has its own software called Palette Master. I'm just having trouble getting a sense of colour management in Windows since I'd been a Mac user for over a decade for my professional uses. I only used PC's for gaming so never much paid attention to my monitors. Yesterday I was just making some quick edits for wedding previews and I just made my BenQ use a standard sRGB profile and put my monitor on sRGB mode and then when I uploaded the photos they seemed more consistent with what was on my screen, my iPhone, and my wife's laptop screen. I know not everyone's screens are calibrated, but there must be some reason the calibrated BenQ was causing me to compensate someway by make my photos over-red so when they were exported to jpeg everything was skewed. The problem is THIS morning I'm editing photos of food packages for a company and everything needs to be perfect in CMYK, and I don't know what to do! Luckily I used my colour chart with the shoot, so I can just use the ol' info panel in PS to make sure everything matches up, but as a professional photographer I'd like to be able to trust my own eyes!!! ... View more

Hey Pat, just wanted to say I appreciate you bearing with me here and all the advice! I'm wondering if the calibration software for the BenQ just doesn't work properly. My ASUS monitor is a gaming monitor, definitely not wide gamut. I posted a few wedding photo previews for the bride & groom from last week's wedding. I just dragged Lightroom to my ASUS which was set on a default sRGB mode and I got more consistent files from the exports. So when I edited the photos on my ASUS, exported them, and then viewed the jpegs on my ASUS & BenQ in the Windows Viewer, or on Firefox they looked a lot truer than when I used LR on my BenQ and the resulting jpegs were too red. ... View more

Okay, I'll try be a bit more clear! I'm talking about making my jpegs look like they do in LR on my expensive, wide-gamut BenQ monitor. When I was editing on my iMac the .jpegs exported from Lightroom looked like they did as I was editing them. Here's what's happening with me: 1. Edit photos in LR on my BenQ; everything looks great! 2. Export .jpgs in sRGB colour space 3. Open .jpgs on calibrated monitor in Windows viewer = red photos 4. Open .jpgs on 2nd sRGB monitor in Windows viewr = red photos 5. Upload .jpgs to Facebook page = red on BenQ monitor, red on Asus monitor Essentially the photos only look good originally in LR on my BenQ monitor, or if I right-click and open them up in Photoshop on my BenQ monitor. As soon as a drag the programs to my 2nd monitor they become redder and more like how they appear (on both monitors) outside of the Adobe programs. I would like my exported .jpgs to have consistent colour with how they're edited. I can make a video on my iPhone and upload it to Dropbox if I'm not being clear! ... View more

I'm curious because I'm having the same issue. I recently sold my iMac and have been working on my PC. I bought myself a fancy BenQ monitor with the built-in calibration and everything. I love the way my photos look on my calibrated monitor, but then when I export them and view them on my 2nd monitor in Windows Photo Viewer or on Facebook they're more red. What should my workflow be? I want the final jpgs I deliver to my clients to look good on THEIR screens and Facebook pages and emails, etc... Anyone have any ideas? ... View more