Skip to main content
superleeds123
Participating Frequently
February 18, 2022
Question

New 4K monitor colours now look desaturated in Lightroom - colour profile issue ?

  • February 18, 2022
  • 2 replies
  • 122 views

Hi,

 

I've recently moved to a basic Samsung 32" 4k monitor and the first thing i noticed was how washed out and desaturated the colours looked in lightroom.

 

I opened some previously created jpg exports from Lightroom and they loaded up looking good in photo viewer but immediatrely something updated the image and made it less colourful, almost as if a profile was applied.

 

Digging about i found that FastStone image viewer showed the jpg as it was saved unliked photoviewer and it did just that giving me a vibrant image on the same monitor as it used to look in Lightroom before export.

 

Looking around in Faststone settings i found the following 

 

 When i checked Auto-detect and use monitor color profile it caused the same problem in Faststone. So the monitor colour profile appears to be the issue here and windows and Lightroom both seem to use it.

 

I installed the Samsung driver for the monitor when settting up but wonder if the generic microsoft driver might give bettter colours ?

 

 

What i dont want to end up doing is applying far more contrast and saturation in Lightroom to address the issue only to find they look overly processed elsewhere.

 

Thanks in advance for any advice here.

 

Mike

 

 

This topic has been closed for replies.

2 replies

superleeds123
Participating Frequently
February 18, 2022

I think i've fixed it - it would seems the default for HDMI connections is RGB limited and it needs to be set to full !

 

 

Further details 

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/285277/how-to-avoid-washed-out-colors-when-using-hdmi-on-your-pc/

 

Hope this helps someone else. 

 

superleeds123
Participating Frequently
February 18, 2022

Here's an example of what's happening - In Lightroom the image still looks a tad flat even with saturation boosted to 6 and vibrance 22. However the resultant exported jpg seen in Faststone now looks slighyly over processed on my monitor.