[Kristoffer Jeberg]

Nice, do you calibrate your monitor? I decided to buy a BenqQ GC2870H LCD monitor which reaches a gamut between sRGB and AdobeRGB. I only use sRGB so it will be very fine for me (like you said, I shouldn’t use Adobe RGB). Someone told me that if I don’t have a colorimeter to calibrate it, I should just use the supplied BenQ profile. What does that mean? That I should use the profile in Photoshop as working space when editing and then exporting in sRGB? Which screen setting then? Sorry for all the questions.

About my gamut clipping fear, nice to hear that they aren’t true. But what if my photo was taken in full sRGB and then edited with a 90% sRGB gamut monitor (non-calibrated). Could the error happen then? I am so neurotic with this lol!! However, to test it I opened some old images I retouched many years ago with an old school non calibrated LCD, and they didn’t have any artifacts/errors when viewed on my 100% sRGB gamut smartphone (zoomed in). So yeah, it’s probably me being neurotic. I guess the gamut difference are to small for that to happen, anything can apparently be seen on even an old LCD.

Once again, thank you very much for your insights, always nice listening to an expert on the subject.

[Kristoffer Jeberg]

Thanks very much for your reply, I am happy to hear I am not the only one with this problem. I hope you got it all in control! Because color managing and screen calibration is driving me insane ☺ I will follow your advice. I understand you use sRGB s color profile when editing and sRGB when exporting, right?

What I really fear is that I may somehow miss some details when retouching images if I look at the images with a slightly too low gamut when editing them. What I fear is “gamut clipping” so that some edges of things I want to remove (artifacts, skin blemishes etc.) will be invisible for me in the lower gamut. Is that posssible? I mean, so I leave an “edge around the object because it blended in with the sorroundings following the low gamut? I hope someone can answer that too!

BTW I plugged in my old CRT next to my computer because I heard that it would be good for editing images (a slightly larger gamut than LCD). At the moment I am in the process of calibrating it by using online test patterns with my OSD and also a little graphic card adjustments. After that I will calibrate the LCD in my laptop. I don’t feel like spending money on a colorimeter so I have to do it manually. I hope I can do it well enough for my needs!