Understanding Colorspace

[fireb0x]

So I have been taking pictures in RAW and they look beautiful on the camera LCD. The colors are rich and the lighting looks perfect.

I can transfer these pictures to my laptop and they look fantastic as well (the gamut on the laptop kind of sucks, but the pictures look fantastic). However, when I transfer them to my desktop computer (with a good 24" IPS monitor), they look nothing like they do on the camera LCD or the laptop. I understand this is an issue with colorspaces and that the IPS LCD is probably the most accurate depiction of color, but even when adjusting the color on the monitor to look like it "should," they look terrible on the web even though I edited them in the SRGB colorspace.

I am just having issues here. Am I missing something where the colors looks perfect on the camer and laptop but on the "good" monitor they look bad?

Help, please!

[qtox91]

you just have to make sure your colors are the same with both moniters. idk what the technical lingo is for it but it just have to adjust your moniters.

[BCampbell]

You say yourself that you trust your LCD monitor the most. So you should calibrate that monitor and do your editing to your standards on that monitor.

if you edit to your liking on the 24", they should still look good on the laptop. What you really have to be concerned about is not how differnet your photos look on different displays, but how it looks on your desired final output. For many people that's print, so it doesn't matter what things look like on the display as long as the print looks how they want.

In your case, if the web is your preferred final output, I have a little bit of bad news. You have no control over how everyone else adjusts their display. So, no matter how much you calibrate, you don't know what other people will be seeing.

Now, there could be something else at play. When you capture RAW, you're actually looking at a JPG on your camera's LCD. And any adjustments you're making in-camera (sharpness, contrast, etc) are applied. And those adjustments are saved as part of the RAW file. And some RAW editors can apply those adjustments when you open the file. It may be that on your laptop, your software is applying these adjustments, but on your desktop, the software is not.

[teaking]

Could you tell us if you are opening the image on your monitor in a JPEG file saved from your RAW file you edited, or you are opening the same RAW file on each computer?

Because even un calibrated displays alot of the time use standard sRGB as a default and look about right-ish if you take an image and put it on each monitor (unless someone has been pressing buttons haha). Thats how most devices seem to work standardised around sRGB. Thats why you can get around colour managment sometimes if your not really sure about it by just using sRGB I know you shouldnt but it kinda works