Spent like 6 hours trying to fix a color shift on my Wacom display

Last weekend I kept painting portraits in Procreate and every brush stroke came out way more yellow than on my older monitor. I thought it was a driver issue or something wrong with the tablet itself. Turns out it was the color profile settings on my Dell PC which I hadn't touched since 2021. After messing with sliders and googling tutorials I finally matched it to sRGB and now everything looks right. Has anyone else had a similar headache with their screen calibration?

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paul_owens251mo ago

Oh man, I've been there. Just a heads up though, sRGB is fine for web stuff but if you do any print work you might want Adobe RGB instead for better color range. At least you got it sorted, nothing worse than fighting with yellow tints for hours.

terrywilson1mo ago

Man, I still remember the time I spent three hours fighting with a monitor that was basically lying to me about colors. Turned out it was set to "vivid" mode and everything I printed came out looking like a traffic cone. @paul_owens25 has a good point about Adobe RGB for print - sRGB works fine until you try to match a business card to what's on screen. Now I just stick with sRGB and hope nobody notices my slightly off brochures.

harper_wright1mo ago

Wait but can you actually tell the difference in a print job if you don't tell the client what setup you used lol. Like I've always wondered if sRGB is actually "close enough" or if Adobe RGB is one of those things pros swear by but nobody notices in real life.