Matching laptop display to desktop

[Dean Osborne Photography]

 

Hi

I just want to say firstly I think this is a fantastic piece of software and I do not for one minute think that this issue lies with the software, it’s either something I’m doing wrong or a limitation of the hardware…

I work mainly in Lightroom and Photoshop

I have a profile I’m very happy with on an average screen on my desktop giving me 95% RGB coverage which seems fine as everyone will be viewing my images on the web.. It looks accurate and I have been happy working with it. I shoot families and weddings so skin tone and white balance are important

However, when I try and profile my laptop I get very low scores in the 60% ranges.. for RGB coverage

It seems skin tones are way off base, contrast is out, shadows change color

I don’t really care about other colors much so long as all the skin colors and general white balance are the same between the 2 displays…

I guess part of the problem is that I cannot adjust the RGB gains of the laptop so i’m losing a lot of values?

I am going to try it with native white balance and gamma but that means it won’t then match the desktop – and white balance is critical to be correct between screens

Is this just a limitation of a (very) poor laptop display

Are there laptops with known good displays? other than macbooks? 🙂

I’ve attached the compressed version of the files I think thats what you need to assist

It makes any color editing on the laptop pointless as it dosen’t match the desktop so I end up going through all those images again 🙂

Thankyou so much for any help you can offer

Best Regards

Dean

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[Florian Höch]

Hi,

However, when I try and profile my laptop I get very low scores in the 60% ranges.. for RGB coverage

it’s actually pretty common for Laptop and other lower quality TN panel displays to have a low coverage of sRGB. As this is a hardware limitation of the panel, there’s nothing that can be done about it.

It makes any color editing on the laptop pointless as it dosen’t match the desktop so I end up going through all those images again

Agreed. A display with such a small gamut is unsuitable for color critical work.

[Dean Osborne Photography]

Thanks for clarifying

I’m going to try and use an Ipad Pro for editing on the move

Looked at reviews and specs of the screen and it seems a viable alternative

The screen looks amazing! LR Mobile seems much better than it used to be so this may be a good solution

Best Regards

Dean

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