You're Using Your Monitor WRONG! (Here's How to Fix It)

When you realize you've been doing it wrong this whole time... 😬

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0:00 - Intro
1:58 - "Color Management" Basics
5:49 - Demo: Why a Color Profile Matters
8:24 - When ICC Profiles Are Used
9:45 - Where to Get ICC Profiles
10:48 - Why Use a 3rd Party Profile
14:11 - Installing an ICC Profile
18:04 - More Notes After Installing
19:23 - Old Windows Photo Viewer

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[ThioJoe]

Mfw I originally thought this would be a quick video but then remembered color management is a nightmare in complexity and had to explain a bunch of stuff for context
📝UPDATES SINCE THIS VIDEO WAS PUBLISHED:
• It seems that the newer 'Photos' app in Windows is indeed color managed now

[Industry-insider]

I love these videos they’re always something I didn’t really know, it’s never beating off to a dead horse

[vinson]

Oh yea, lemme find the non-existent DVD that didn't came with my monitor :D (edit: found a new and better monitor)

[chriswilmes]

Another quick note on this; Some applications will occasionally cause windows to disassociate the chosen icc profiles you've just applied, and kick the output back to system defaults (overriding the colour management settings in windows). This mostly occurs in gaming apps and some full screen applications. If this happens to you, one recommendation is to use a free program called Colour Profile Keeper. Once installed, simply follow these steps:
- Select the correct profile for the relevant screens and hit apply;
- Select lock profiles, to stop programs over-riding it; &
- Enable launch at startup & minimise to tray.
This has been the most successful solution for me so far, although some apps will occasionally continue to reset your icc profiles.
Lastly, make sure your monitor's hardware colour profiles are correctly selected in the OSD.

[gameswithoutalex]

you mention this disc as if anyone has an optical drive these days

[chiestpanda]

You know what else I love about the old photo viewer?! You could right click on the photo and select an option to take you to that file so that you can easily locate it in a sea of photos when trying to separate them into another directory or something

[edwarddeaddead]

Bruuuuh. The under-saturated look on another device after drawing something is so relatable. Thank you!

[romandoo]

Dude... I've been nonstop around PCs and technology for about 15 years now and this is the first time I've heard someone talking about this. Awesome video my man.

[Vlad]

4:05 The exact moment when you can hear Theo SINGING

[NightcoreChase]

before I watch this video, just wanted to let you know that my monitor is upside down, with inverted colors, flashing ridiculously fast and the power isn't plugged in. When I tried to call the manufacture, they said to insert the floppy disk for the serial number and I just cant boot into my pc because my windows is expired and its asking to verify my credit card with PayPal to continue so i'm stuck help

[RomiBarcena]

Some newly released monitors don't have CD installers included anymore.

[alphaforce]

If you were using sRGB you weren't doing it wrong because the point of color management is to ensure that printed output matches on-screen display as much as possible. You wouldn't be embedding your monitor-specific ICC profile to images you intend to share because on all screens other than yours the colors would be way off. If you pay close attention to the "color management" right around 16:05 settings you will see that windows defaults to sRGB for all instances where there is no embedded profile (and the program supports color management) or where the program doesn't support color management.

The other thing that this long video doesn't mention is ensuring that your monitor is connected by DisplayPort (at least) and that your video card supports 10-bit per channel color. Not all video cards will support 10bpc color, most only do 8bpc. This setting is changed in your driver settings for your particular video card/GPU. Without 10bpc enabled your monitor won't be allowed to display more colors even if it supports them.

[thecentralscrutinizerr]

Now that you've explained color profiles, how about how to sync these profiles to your printer so that your printer is printing what you are seeing on your monitor. That's the most overlooked feature of having a PC and printer.

[noahwoodland]

I appreciate that he speaks at the speed he does clearly and comprehensively. Other YouTubers I have to speed 'em up to 1.25 or 1.5. He sounds like most people's 1.25x speeds :)

[noud]

Thank you so much. I've always had issues with my monitor regarding colour banding and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. But when I tried this video it was immediately fixed and my monitor looks so much better. I can't thank you enough!

[greenculturemedia]

Joe your channel is why YouTube was made. Knowledge and good contents I would have to pay some money for, so thank you for quaility Knowledge.

Hope you win top youtube awards.

[harrym]

OMG Windows 11 color profiles were not working at all, despite using a calibrator, and it was driving me crazy, until I went into that setting and checked "use Windows display calibration". Thank you! I could not use my I could not use my $5000 Sony OLED monitor to do any work for weeks until I found this video!

[skytechbits]

I proudly carried those CRT monitors while walking up steps when I was a bit younger and smaller :) You did a good job explaining many important details here Joe. I think the big companies who are pushing people to create more videos, and to add sharp images/videos from content sites to them, will put another level of complexity to the color space for many companies overall as well.

[Saturn]

You are correct, Advanced Color is for HDR, but you _would_ want that if your monitor supports HDR; otherwise, you won't have an ICC profile when in HDR mode. Pretty sure you need a separate calibration under HDR to have the correct ICC profile for it, but I'm not sure. The difference between SDR and HDR modes is luminance. I think WCG (wide color gamut) is what your ICC profile manages in general, and it's good to calibrate in both conditions.

[IAMNOTRANA]

I like how this channel went from absolute troll to what it is today and actually providing some detailed information to general audience.