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This is my second post on the lines of the same subject I did some days back.
I have just bought an Asus PA238Q IPS panel monitor. The monitor's driver has installed an Asus profile in my operating system under color management. The previous monitor I had was a 23 inch Samsung TN panel. I don't think it installed a profile at all.
Question 1): With this new monitor (IPS panel), if I viewed a picture through Windows Picture Viewer (Win 7), the picture gives a ghastly yellow cast. But if I switched to slide show, things are normal and the pictures look quite fine, like it did on my previous Samsung monitor (TN Panel)
If I viewed the pictures through Irfan View or XnView or Nikon View NX2 , etc. they are all fine.
So why does Window's own native picture viewer gives a yellow cast? (and how does it give a normal picture when switched to slide mode?).
Also when I view thumbnails through Windows Explorer, colors look normal. I am totally confused. I am wondering why I bought this monitor at all. (I hope to do color editing of my photos with this) Have I asked for trouble buying this?
Should I remove this Asus profle from my OS under color management and have no profile at all in the OS? I am scared to remove it lest the monitor goes out of control!
Question 2): How do I know whether my monitor is wide gamut or not? The manufacturer's specifications say only this:
It only says color saturation 100% sRGB and it also says sRGB color space 100% coverage. Nowhere in the specifications is it written as wide gamut.
However, in the monitor presets, there is a preset "sRGB", along with other presets like "standard", "user", "scenery" etc. It also says it has a 10 bit LUT.
Even if I keep this sRGB preset, the Windows Picture Viewer behaves in the same way - i.e. yellow cast unless I go to slide show.
How do I find out if this is a wide gamut monitor? If so even if I chose the preset "sRGB" will I still get the same problem with Windows Picture Viewer?
Please kindly clear my confusion.
Thanks in advance
PRSS
Last edited on Sat Nov 3rd, 2012 22:41 by PRSS