Matte or Glossy for designing?

What do you guys prefer when doing art programs, or any other sort of designing on your laptop. Do you think that glossy affects color, or brings it out?

 

Glossy does affect color; for it's intended purpose (i.e. making watching movies, viewing photos, playing games, etc. more vibrant) it is nice. But for a designer who depends more on color accuracy, etc. a glossy screen that makes the colors more vibrant isn't necessarily what you want.

Having said that, I do know some designers who actually do prefer the glossy screens. At the very least, they like to have both a matte and glossy screen so they can see how things work both ways.

 

I really like the looks of glossy, but I was worried about the color accuracy. I do ALOT of photoshop work, and have to eyeball colors pretty often. Of course the eyedropper tool works, but sometimes its just enough different to matter. So I will probably just throw it on my matte laptop before I put it online. Thanks for the input Zadillo.

 

Yup, use a matte screen. Though honestly, the quality of the LCD overall is more important. You may see glossy screens with better accuracy than matte screens. It really depends on the panel quality.
I've noticed Dell LCDs have terrible color reproduction, but my Hyundai LCD has really good reproduction (got high marks on several sites for it not being a $600+ model).
I prefer using a glossy screen on my MBP myself. I can differentiate the colors better. That being said, I'm not a pro designer by any means. I do logo work, web application and normal application development for my university, so the target audience is fairly small and not critical enough to care about slight off colors and such.

 

Matte would be better than Glossy, but a CRT is my choice for doing any kind of graphics work.

 

I agree with TwilightVampire. Check the colors electronically, use a color picker and value compare them before you call it good. LCD's aren't faithful color representation anyway. What I'd really suggest is as high a resolution as you can get (which is typically matte), over glossy or matte specifically.

 

Matte is best for picture photography IMO.

 

get a monitor that has the features to index the color.

 

I went with matte if you're going to be doing art-related things. I can't really explain it, it's just a gut feeling that I wouldn't want to be doing any sort of CAD or artwork with glossy screens.

 

It's not just the color accuracy, which is significantly altered (at least perceptually), but any little glare is going to drive you crazy when you're looking closely at a few pixels.

 

Matte is way better, I prefer it for all things, but its even more important when your doing photoshop work or somthing.

 

gloss is the only way to go if youre a designer that requires your work to at any point required to be profesionally printed.
A HD crt is the ideal monitor as a HD crt will have the most accurate colors, wider gamet and best contrast and dynamic range.
A gloss lcd screen emulates that of a crt. A matte screen only hazes your entire RGB color gamet
Thou you can use Photoshops proof setup to calibrate profiles from your monitor to your printer or to the offset printer you still need to start with an accurate monitor
Playing with photoshop is one thing cause everybody does it but if CMYK accuracy is a must then glossy screens is the only choice
Also one thing to note is not all glossy screens are the same. Some have better antiglare coatings while some dont