Hello, I've been using PSE 11 and Nik Collection on my laptop, and all was well (or so I thought). Then I got a new camera, not supported on PSE 11, so I switched to LT and CC (with Nik Collection), and I am coming to like it a lot. However, it taxes my laptop to the point where it's so frustrating and basically crashes frequently.
My husband suggested I work on his desktop, and he has a IPS monitor. The colors display dramatically differently on his monitor. My laptop isn't calibrated, and he thinks his is by virtue of being IPS. Anyhow, the colors look much warmer and more saturated on his monitor.
The other issue I have when using his desktop/monitor is that when I open a photo in Nik Collection from CC -- the color temp and brightness changes a lot (with no filters open in Nik). That doesn't happen on my laptop when I do the same.
I guess I have no specific question, but any ideas? If it matters, my laptop is 15" and the monitor on the desktop is 27", so I'm not sure if that matters (but truly the colors are different).
@tracys
I ran into the same thing when my husband got a laptop for me to run alongside my desktop because it couldn't handle the load of CC and LR. The colors were horrid compared to the monitor my desktop used. Thankfully, I was able to add some RAM and get that sorted, but it caused me to do a bit of research because I wanted to make sure that what I was seeing, photographing, processing, and potentially printing for friends and family were all the same thing.
@tracys There are probably many things affecting your color display, but I suspect the behavior has its root in the fact that you have upgraded to LR and are now working in much wider color spaces than were possible in PSE, and in 16 bit color varieties rather than just 8. So if you develop on a monitor that can use so-called "10 bit color," or more, monitors that advertise "full" sRGB support for instance, rather than just 8 bit, and then view that on older monitors, you will see a difference.
Color spaces, color depth and different monitor and browser support for color are all complex issues, and are only exacerbated by starting in LR, using only 8 bit plugins, and/or bringing images from LR into PS and back again. Let alone saving images as jpegs. I presume you might be using LR to do that and "save as web?" That is probably safest to get "true" internet displayable jpeg images, by the way.
Hardware calibration is an excellent idea, but only truly effective on "better" monitors.
Sorry for no specific ideas, but that is a little background. "True color" is a huge subject that books have been written on.
I'm not a great expert but I know for sure that laptop monitors have poor colors... If you work with photos, editing, you probably need a special monitor for photographers. According to a lot of authority reviews, such as https://www.cnet.com/topics/monitors/best-monitors/ , http://www.bestadvisor.com/best-monitors-for-photographers , http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/ , LG seems a really good choice for nowadays, and it's not surprising, color support - 16, 7 million colors. Dell has the same, too. So if you want to get good colors, but not ready to spend a lot of money (for example NEC is more powerful model, its color support is more than 1 billion color, and the price is $660), choose Dell or LG, their price $300-400.
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I ran into the same thing when my husband got a laptop for me to run alongside my desktop because it couldn't handle the load of CC and LR. The colors were horrid compared to the monitor my desktop used. Thankfully, I was able to add some RAM and get that sorted, but it caused me to do a bit of research because I wanted to make sure that what I was seeing, photographing, processing, and potentially printing for friends and family were all the same thing.
Here is a link to some info concerning calibrating your monitor as well as having a color neutral workspace. It discusses monitors also. https://prodpi.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203760974-Calibrating-your-workstation. I am not in the market for a $500 monitor, so I just do my best to keep mine calibrated.
Color spaces, color depth and different monitor and browser support for color are all complex issues, and are only exacerbated by starting in LR, using only 8 bit plugins, and/or bringing images from LR into PS and back again. Let alone saving images as jpegs. I presume you might be using LR to do that and "save as web?" That is probably safest to get "true" internet displayable jpeg images, by the way.
Hardware calibration is an excellent idea, but only truly effective on "better" monitors.
Sorry for no specific ideas, but that is a little background. "True color" is a huge subject that books have been written on.