It has proven very buggy with several inherent flaws.Īs for the MBP - the thing is that since Apple introduced P3 displays, variations of P3 profiles have been increasingly used universally and interchangeably among Mac users. I know BenQ made their own software, but I would stay away from that. Not sure what software is bundled with the sensor nowadays. Eizo Colornavigator or NEC Spectraview (should you at some point want to upgrade). It's a superb colorimeter that has been the industry standard for many years - and an added bonus is that this sensor is supported absolutely everywhere, including in high-end dedicated calibrators like e.g. Nothing beats the old i1 Display Pro, which I believe has now been rebranded to Calibrite Display Pro. The only other items that were added to Photoshop were brushes and a few actions I use for photo editing. This is with a now fresh installation of Photoshop so no changes were made to settings until I started seeing the color shift issue.

I've never edited photos on this desktop computer using this monitor. But it was exported out as usual, then seen on my iPhone, it's not what I was wanting to represent. I'm just making adjustments to the colors to my liking as usual. The colors look great to me on the monitor even though it's not calibrated. I knew immediately that there was either a problem with settings within Photoshop or my monitor. I first noticed that desaturation once I uploaded the photo to Dropbox or OneDrive and downloading it from the apps to my iPhone using the native Photos app in iOS. Not like what you've been used to on a Mac, where everything is color managed. Native Windows applications, like the File Explorer and Desktop are not color managed, and will always display images over saturated on wide gamut monitors. I have noticed that using the sRGB profile within Windows can be overbearing because of the color saturation.

Other are seeing what I see on my phone as well.Īny guidance would be appreciated. Now to me the below picture looks fine but when I view this on my iPhone it's very washed out, no saturation, contrast, etc. I made no changes so these settings were the same before I noticed I had an issue.īelow are some picture examples of what others are viewing. Is what I'm experiencing a color profile or monitor issue? After looking at all I can do within Photoshop and Windows 11 settings, I do believe it could be a monitor issue as it has never been calibrated.Īfter doing some rearch on Google, I checked Color Management within Windows and the ICC Profile was blank at first until I added the sRGB 2.1 seen below.īelow are the Color Settings I seen in Photoshop. Below are some screenshots of what I'm seeing in Photoshop. Once I started to export my edited photo, uploaded to both Dropbox and OneDrive, the photo looks very washed out losing most of it's saturation and contrast. The colors from what I'm seeing via the monitor look great, so I can continue to edit as usual. I recently re-installed Photoshop to my Windows PC using a BenQ EX3210U monitor.

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