2 Replies Latest reply: Nov 17, 2009 3:05 AM by Bill_Janes RSS

    Is monitor with adobeRGB profile better?

    avpromedia Community Member

      I notice some LED backlit monitor has adobeRGB as well as sRGB profile. If I select adobeRGB, would I get a larger color gamut (more colors) in photoshop?

       

      Is there any downside to this?

        • 1. Re: Is monitor with adobeRGB profile better?
          D Fosse-QDEaQ1 Community Member

          That's a wide-gamut monitor. Yes, it's better in one respect, because it's capable of displaying a wider range of colors. Very good for Photoshop work, as long as it's properly calibrated and profiled.

           

          The "downside" is that you need to establish a strict color managed environment wherever possible. Anything that is not color managed will likely assume that things are happening inside an sRGB space, and so it will appear over-saturated on a wide-gamut monitor. Untagged images from the web (that's most of them) is one example, even if you're using a color managed browser like Firefox.

          • 2. Re: Is monitor with adobeRGB profile better?
            Bill_Janes Community Member

            avpromedia wrote:

             

            I notice some LED backlit monitor has adobeRGB as well as sRGB profile. If I select adobeRGB, would I get a larger color gamut (more colors) in photoshop?

             

            Is there any downside to this?

            In addition to what D Fosse said, the Adobe RGB profile does not describe the behavior of a wide gamut monitor any better than sRGB profile describes the behavior of a regular monitor. The wide gamut monitor is able to show most of the aRGB gamut just as a normal monitor is able to show sRGB. You still have to profile the monitor since its behavior will not be described accurately by the Adobe RGB profile.