Hello
I am going to buy a new monitor for 3d modelling and rendering. I have just learned color gamut. sRGB, DCI P3, NTSC etc. Which color gamut is suitable for Enscape?
Thank you
Something that does 99-100% sRGB would be most appropriate. Although finding something that “just” does sRGB these days is a challenge. Some displays will let you switch between color profiles.
Thanks for help. I just bought a monitor that has sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamut. I hope It will be fine.
I’ve got 2 monitors, a 27” 4K by HP and a 24” 1920x1080 by Dell. They natively have quite different colours out of the box but….
I’ve got me one of these https://spyderx.datacolor.com and I can make them (to my perception) not only colour accurate to anything I hold up against the screen but exactly the same as each other.
They can be got for around £150 but are often discounted (currently £110 on uk Amazon)….for me it was one of the best small tech investments I’ve made.
I expect the main concern would be images looking the same in Enscape as they do in Photoshop. The problem is most 3D apps are not color-aware, while Photoshop is. It used to be a safe bet that if you were working on a decent IPS screen with 99% sRGB, images would display correctly pretty much anywhere. PC content is traditionally intended to be consumed in sRGB - when fed into a screen with wider gamut through a non color-aware app, you get oversaturated colors. Some may find that visually appealing, which is fine, it just isn’t an accurate representation of the content.
For your own usage, I expect you’ll have the easiest time if you can get things set up to work within the hardware settings on the monitor; hopefully set it to sRGB and be done with it. if you are concerned about how your work is being viewed elsewhere, you unfortunately have little control of how others are seeing it. With HDR and all the gamut specs being pushed to consumers now, things are all over the map. Windows is inconsistent in how it uses color profiles; browsers may or may not respect sRGB content.
I don’t profess to be an expert; I’ve banged my head on this off and on for years. My main concern is getting the most consistent results across users and devices in our firm with the least hassle. If you are just concerned about your own setup, you have much more flexibility. A couple useful links:
Taming the Wide Gamut using sRGB Emulation | PCMonitors.info