I made some comparisons, the files are too big to be placed here, so I have added a link below. 1. Monitor: set to Native 2. Color Management Policies: I believe I never touched it, wouldn't what would be happening, so I leave them as they are 3. Working space: I'll selet sRGB or AdobeRGB (makes hardly any difference in what I see on the screen) 4. Always embed the profile: eh . . . how? 5. Calibrator: I'll get that soon. I have been through calibration papers of this monitor (a 15 pages PDF document - I don't understand a single word of it, to be honest ) 6. There is a really huge difference between what I see opening a file with XnView (just to serve as a quick viewer) and what is being displayed when the file is loaded in Photoshop. Where XnView shows details in shadow, within Photoshop these details are simply gone and the photo is much much darker. Am not sure as to whether calibration will result in such a significant improvement, I mean that Photoshop will look the same as XnView. 7. Did a monitor reset to factory defaults (resulting in sRGB D65) - makes no difference 8. Have set to Europe General Purpose 3, after reset, no difference. 9. Then back to 'Native'. How does your color settings look like? Probably I have to live with it, i.e. spending time on adjusting 'imported' files so they look a little bit like XnView, which is realistic. http://imageshack.com/a/img922/369/ZFO69r.png http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6955/ju2Xy1.png http://imageshack.com/a/img924/8421/QmQL3Z.png http://imageshack.com/a/img923/2761/bRlqtE.png http://imageshack.com/a/img921/6251/ghupsh.png http://imageshack.com/a/img921/8009/xn5mzC.png btw : the monitor is tested on HP Z27x OSD Setup And Calibration, where you can see the menus etc. later: I found something, set Image->Mode to RGB Color, if it is CYMK. then view-> proof setup-> tag Monitor RGB. Okay, sure this isn't the right way, but the colors are pretty much okay now... at least the image isn't sooo terribly dark. ahum..
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