Sony Wide Gamut Display (or 3-LED Display)

Hi all!

I'm frustrated... i bought a Sony VGN-AW31XY/Q notebook. Fast processor, 2 SSDs, 18.4" display, 8GB ram AND a antiglare display.
BUT it's a wide gamut display and i'm a webdesigner. I didn't know there is such a huge difference between this and a "normal" display. Red and green are oversaturated like hell. My question: HOW or CAN i change the colors to "normal"? The point is, calibrating Photoshop or any other color managed software is no problem. But i need color mangagement for ANY other software too (Flash, Google Chrome and so on). There must be a solution. Isn't there a tool that loads on startup where i can adjust the colors? Not only brightness, contrast and gamma levels but saturation and hue also? Please help...

Thanks!

 

Hi, seceye

LOL, that was my exact reaction when I first fired up DreamWeaver on my AW290. "Holy 'cow' that's red! "

Do a search on calibration in the AW owner's thread and you'll see this issue come up a lot. Basically, the AW's hi-gamut screens need to be calibrated before they will produce accurate color.

Your best bet is to buy a hardware calibration package such as the eye1 Display2 or Spyder3 and generate a color profile for the monitor. You'll also need to use color aware applications such as Photoshop or FireFox 3 that can load the profile.

Unfortunately DreamWeaver is NOT yet color aware (seriously Adobe, get a move on including this option), so if you do a lot of work in this program you will not get accurate color. The same will be true for any app that doesn't know how to use color profiles (IE, most windows apps, etc.).

 

This is a common issue with IPS monitors on the desktop. Color managed apps are great for wide-gamut monitors, but everything else (including OS) looks oversaturated. i.e reds are noticeably bright.

Buying a Spyder doesn't help the issue per se... I properly corrected my wide gamut monitors, but typically used "low contrast" settings for normal web surfing or day-to-day operations. I'll switch to the corrected wide-gamut calibration(a little dark and saturated for daily work) for colour-sensitive work.

 

You might try this: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

Good luck!

 

Thanks a lot for replies! Today I bought a Spyder 3 Pro and post results here when I'm finished!

 

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