Overheard a guy at the coffee shop talking about color gamuts and it clicked

He was going off to his buddy about how sRGB vs DCI-P3 matters way more for prints than for screens, and I realized my last 3 portfolio pieces looked washed out because I was checking them on my phone. So I pulled up my monitor's display settings and switched it to DCI-P3 mode for the first time in 2 years, and the colors on a cyberpunk cityscape I did finally popped like I wanted. Anyone else ever catch a random conversation that fixed a problem you didn't even know you had?

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victor_carr2521d ago

Actually DCI-P3 is for screens, not prints. sRGB is the standard for most print workflows because commercial printers are calibrated to it. If you're sending files to a print shop, P3 mode on your monitor will actually make your prints look wrong since you're seeing colors the printer can't reproduce. The washed out look you were getting was probably just your phone's display being dim or having a bad color profile, not because your monitor was set wrong.

jessec3921d ago

Pull up the soft proofing view in Lightroom or Capture One next time. It'll show you exactly how the file will look on the printer's color space so you can tweak it before sending.