Colour Profiles

Image in Monitors profile Image in sRGB

Not the best image to illustrate the problem but this picture was taken from a screen grab in preview.

The original image is very dull but as I've said this monitors' colour profile is honouring sRGB profiles so 1/4 of the internet has become mainly bright orange

Just tracked down all the iiyama CRT - ICM profiles from their site and tried installing them in

/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/

&

/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/

From you suggestion BDAquaand - /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ is telling me it 'cannot be modified' and it only appears to contain generic profiles, could this be the cause? Do I risk breaking the system if I authenticate and install the screens profile here?

And having checked several other setups, all the system folders only have the same generic profiles installed, so I don't think authenticating and placing my screens one is in the systems library a good idea

Finally had a breakthrough!

Setting the display control panel to sRGB and then dragging and dropping an sRGB assigned image into a Safari window, displays the images colours correctly. When this action has been performed once, all the other apps seem behave too, but no before

AARRGGGG! I LIED!

I've just tied to reproduce the above process, but since logging into this site - dragging and dropping my test image into Safari and we're back to an over saturated effect again, but preview is still showing the same images colours correctly! Even after a quit

(Using a different account has no effect on the problem BDAqua, thanks for listening though)

Time to log out of here and see if that was the cause? brb

(Sadly my problem hasn't been solved by my own stupidity and button pressing, shame you can't unsolve posts again?)

I can confirm that logging into this site was not the cause of my recent aberration but it does appear to illustrate how colour profiles work in OS 10.4..11 or on my system with this screen anyway

It's just nice to know I can finally change this bizarre effect. I'll keep testing and post any results

I'd be grateful if someone could tell me if the images I posted above, both appear really washed out and dull or one looks washed out and the other bright orange? Cheers

Thank you BDAqua for taking the time to look at that image and the bizzare effect on colour I'm experiencing with this screen/color profile. If we are both looking at the same effect? The image you posted looks the same to me in both the iiyamas' display profile and the sRGB display profile but the top pair of images are what I see when the screen is set to sRGB and the bottom pair when the display is set the iiyamas' - which is how I intended the image to look.

Are the top pair of your images how the image looks to you in my post?

Thanks for that PixMap grab too, it's a bit disturbing seeing how much colour is being lost and what I can trust with this screen!?

(Of all the screens in all the world, I had to buy this one!!!)

Once again many thanks

Yes, but that's not to say they look the same here as there.

I suspect the color loss is due to the jpeg compression

I think you can see my difficulty in trying to explain this conundrum, As I've said 1/4 of the internet has become gaudy - BUT, by downloading a gaudy image file (ie 'save linked file' and not 'save image' )- opening it in preview and applying a different color profile. I can have that same image - the original broadcast image from the website open in the browser window looking over saturated with patches of it's detail missing AND that exact same image downloaded from the website opened in preview and a different colour profile applied - looking full of detail and normal.

Changing the displays' colour profile to sRGB appears to make the monitor behave, but why is there such an extreme difference between this monitors published color profile and sRGB. I've never seen such a discrepancy before and as I've said only with images tagged with an sRGB profile or as you've kindly illustrated, really dull images tagged with this screens profile and all at the same time on the same screen!!!