Professional Monitor Help

Roomka · Aug 16, 2012

Hello, Trying to buy a professional monitor mostly for photoshop. i just purchased this dell [FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]U2412M and the colors look much different on other monitors. i bought the x-rite calibration software with no luck of fixing the problem. please help me out. thanks.[/FONT]

cgipson1 · Aug 16, 2012

Roomka said:
Hello, Trying to buy a professional monitor mostly for photoshop. i just purchased this dell U2412M and the colors look much different on other monitors. i bought the x-rite calibration software with no luck of fixing the problem. please help me out. thanks.

There is nothing wrong with the Dell.. (unless there is a manufacturing defect!)

That image you posted earlier after editing it on the Dell was nice.. good exposure. So what is the problem?

MLeeK · Aug 16, 2012

You kind of have to tell or show us what you are seeing on each monitor. We can't guess. Sorry!
You can take a picture of each monitor, maybe even just a cell phone pic and that's going to help. Each monitor should be displaying the same thing.

Roomka · Aug 16, 2012

Ok in the first picture you can see that it looks pretty much normal, a little dark because of my exposure on the camera.

Next if i double click ANY of those images in that folder they look like this in the windows viewer

Now if i drag and drop any of the picture into photoshop they look normal

MTVision · Aug 16, 2012

MLeeK said:
You kind of have to tell or show us what you are seeing on each monitor. We can't guess. Sorry!
You can take a picture of each monitor, maybe even just a cell phone pic and that's going to help. Each monitor should be displaying the same thing.

If you only calibrated the one monitor then the other ones would probably look different.

If you buy another monitor for your computer it will still need to be calibrated.

"A properly calibrated LCD display will look dark and flat with a rather warm colour balance, in fact dramatically so compared to the way most displays are set up from the factory. If you have been using a display in an uncalibrated state, your initial reaction upon performing your first monitor calibration will likely be "Yuk! That looks totally screwed up......what did I do wrong."

^^ a quote I found that kind of fits with your issue

MTVision · Aug 16, 2012

Roomka said:
Ok in the first picture you can see that it looks pretty much normal, a little dark because of my exposure on the camera. View attachment 17239

Next if i double click ANY of the images you see int he first picture they look like this in the windows viewer View attachment 17240

Now if i drag and drop any of the picture into photoshop they look normal View attachment 17241

I told you in your other thread that maybe windows was using the wrong color profile and photoshop was using the right one or vice versa. Not sure if thats possible but.....if it looks good/normal to you in photoshop then why would you consider buying a new monitor? Who cares what the picture looks like in windows image viewer?

MLeeK · Aug 16, 2012

Roomka said:
Ok in the first picture you can see that it looks pretty much normal, a little dark because of my exposure on the camera. View attachment 17239

Next if i double click ANY of the images you see int he first picture they look like this in the windows viewer View attachment 17240

Now if i drag and drop any of the picture into photoshop they look normal View attachment 17241

That is not different monitors, that is the difference between photoshop and windows. Can you please upload the image that you have there in photoshop without any editing done to it. I want to see the image before you have opened in photoshop, the image then opened in windows and the image then opened in photoshop.
It's several things:
1. Your colorspace is probably NOT srgb which will really look drastically different in the windows viewer.
2. if you are shooting raw Photoshop's raw processor has defaults programed into it that automatically happens when it opens.

Roomka · Aug 16, 2012

well windows viewer is used in many ways for me, like for instance if someone sends me a picture on email i dont want to drag it into photoshop just to look at it you know, having the windows viewer saves more time.

cgipson1 · Aug 16, 2012

Roomka said:
Ok in the first picture you can see that it looks pretty much normal, a little dark because of my exposure on the camera. View attachment 17239

Next if i double click ANY of those images in that folder they look like this in the windows viewer View attachment 17240

Now if i drag and drop any of the picture into photoshop they look normal View attachment 17241

You will notice that the Photoshop and the thumbnails look identical, yes???? Don't user the Windows Photo viewer... it uses it's own weird profile or something, I have seen this before. The photoshop view is going to be the most accurate..

Ballistics · Aug 16, 2012

It looks as if the image is highlighted/selected.

cgipson1 · Aug 16, 2012

Roomka said:
well windows viewer is used in many ways for me, like for instance if someone sends me a picture on email i dont want to drag it into photoshop just to look at it you know, having the windows viewer saves more time.

Whats more important... what you are used too? Or accuracy on color and exposure?

MLeeK · Aug 16, 2012

Don't open the folder with windows. Open it using Adobe Bridge. You'll have the same browsing abilities and no conflicts.

MTVision · Aug 16, 2012

cgipson1 said:
You will notice that the Photoshop and the thumbnails look identical, yes???? Don't user the Windows Photo viewer... it uses it's own weird profile or something, I have seen this before. The photoshp is going to be the most accurate..

Windows viewer turned my photos green after I calibrated. I don't use it ever. You can make those thumbnails pretty much full size and never have to open them in windows viewer. Photoshop comes with bridge which is an image viewer - use that - it's much better.