Desaturated colors in Ps Lr and Br after monitor calibration

Yes, monitor profiles can go wrong - but in the case of wide gamut monitors the explanation is usually a lot simpler. Without color management, they will display standard sRGB content wildly oversaturated. That's what the extended gamut does and why you need full color management.

You always do if you want accuracy, of course, but with these monitors it really jumps in your face.

Good idea to try a test image and look at skintone saturation (in Photoshop), there's a free one here: https://www.colourmanagement.net/index.php/downloads_listing/

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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Yep, Dave is spot on. Your images aren't "desaturated" in Photoshop, they are correct.

The saturated version you see in Edge or Photos is incorrect, because these apps don't support color management at all. Your monitor profile is ignored altogether.

That monitor is a wide gamut model (DCI-P3), which means that it can only be used in a fully color managed environment. That's the deal you implicitly accept when purchasing such a unit. Find out which of your applications aren't color managed - and stop using them. Find color managed alternatives instead.

For web, use Firefox set to Mode 1 (google it), or Chrome. Do not use Edge or Internet Explorer.

Hi

NEVER set Photoshop's working space to the display profile, NEVER  - it should be a "device independent colour space" like sRGB or Adobe RGB depending on use. That’s how colourmanagement works.

IF your monitor's ICC profile is accurate, then Photoshop will give you the correct appearance - whereas Windows Photos (which lacks colourmanagement) will not because it doesn’t use the screen profile. You'd need to ask Microsoft why not, in this day of colourmanagement it seems crazy.

Adobe apps such as Photoshop (and Lightroom) do colourmanagement right, by using an image files colourspace (I believe that's sRGB in your case) in conjunction with the display profile to calculate correct values to send to the calibrated screen - these values are calculated to provide correct visual appearance (based on the readings made by the colorimeter when calibrating & profiling the screen to calculate its ICC profile).

A non colourmanaged application simply sends the unmodified file numbers to the screen to be displayed, if the display has a higher gamut (colour range) than the sRGB colour space of your file (and many do) then that will mean ovesaturated colour is displayed.

Internet use:

When saving images to go online please be sure to embed the sRGB colour profile, unfortunately in Photoshop's "save for web" this is not the default action. You need to manually select that option. As most web browsers are colourmanaged that should provide correct appearance.

ps

theres no such thing as raw sRGB - a RAW file has no colour space associated. The RAW file can be used to make sRGB, of course (using a raw processor) if you mean that the camera is set to save RAW & sRGB (so the camera saves both file types) that’s fine. 

I hope this helps

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thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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It sounds like you may have a bad monitor profile and need to make it again.

Setting the document space to the monitor profile effectively disables color management. This would make the colours the same as non colour managed software I.e. incorrect.

Don't assume that the other, non color managed, software is correct. On wide gamut monitors such software displays images as oversaturated. So start by downloading some good test images with color profiles attached. Check the skin tones etc. Don't compare to non colour managed software.

If they are still under-saturated then remake the profile

Dave

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/keeping-colors-consistent.html

Hi, please take a look here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/color-faq.html

and here: https://sleeklens.com/a-guide-to-color-management-in-lightroom/