Desaturated colors in Photoshop

Hi Glenn,

Pleasure, I am glad I could help. [if you mean me?]

Thanks for the “helpful”, we volunteers live on points ';~}

The greenish hue may be something you’ll need to think about, does your room have reddish walls? That can cause a greenish appearance because your eyes grey balance to take account of the overall light in view.. If not you may be seeing a limitation of the Xrite software, why not test the basICColor display SW that I recommended.

What you are seeing now is how some programs don’t deal well a wide gamut display ( when calibrated without any gamut restriction ) .

Programs that do not “do” colourmanagement just throw the data at the system [not using the display profile] and that’s why you see this strong colours. Same goes for web images with no profile embedded.

With some of your applications showing the issue (e.g. web browsers) you may be able to set up the colour management - google will be your friend here. AFAIK Firefox CAN do colourmanagement.

So Chrome looks similar Photoshop? That would indicate colour management in action.

Yep “5” [embed profiles]

is the way to do it, web images should have ICC profiles embedded. In the past it was thought it bloated file size but faster connection has made that opinion obsolete.

However, have you considered this?

Almost all users with high gamut displays do not calibrate the restrict the gamut. It’s not always even possible.

This means that those users see just what you are seeing now when looking at their non-colourmanaged application’s image display. Of course if web material has profiles embedded AND the web browsers have colour management activated by default, then they should experience the correct appearance.

I have discussed the concept of gamut reduced calibrations with the guys art basICColor and whereas Eizo (a hardware calibration screen manufacturer) offer to restrict the gamut during calibration using their colornavigator SW, basICColor do not.

Their opinion is that virtually everyone viewing a wide gamut display is NOT restricting gamut, as I mentioned above.

Until ALL web browsers are colour managed [by default] and all web material has icc profiles embedded, this will continue to be an issue.

Some web content providers I work with will use a wide gamut screen for print work etc. And also have a second screen (standard gamut) so they can see their web work on both screen types.

Complicated isn’t it. And really there’s no way round it because you can’t control how people view your material on screen. Of course they get used to it, like somemusers with very saturated TV settings. Everything they see that’s not colour managed is rather vivid.

So:

Some people viewing your content will see it on sRGB gamut screens,

some on [approximately] Adobe RGB gamut screens - the latter, like your benQ will display non colourmanaged content rather vividly unlaces gamut is restricted during calibration. And virtually no one would do that having purchased a wide gamut screen.

I hope this helps

if so, please do mark my reply as "helpful" and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct" below, so others who have similar issues can see the solution

Long answer, sorry. Takes some understanding this

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement