John, thank you for your effort. I did not perform any tests so far, but just set my Eizo Monitor as main screen and hope for the best…
Maybe someone from the DXO staff could chime in?
Edit: The best case would be if it worked like the option says: Current profile of the display device would mean that PL would switch the profile. Next question: What happens if I expand the PL window over the two screens…
There are quite some topics with rather basic / generic questions (try a search for “srgb” for example) were users are / were puzzling about questions like this. I cannot understand why these questions are simply not answered by those who should know. So, @StevenL, @sgospodarenko - it would be nice if those questions would be answered and maybe it would be a smart idea to pin a “FAQ” with those topics in the root directory of the forum. I am sure other users would point newbies in that direction, so that you won’t be faced with those questions over and over again.
Sorry for the delay, I missed this post before. So at present time, the code in DxO PhotoLab does not take into account the use of multi-display systems and will use the ICC of the system PL is launched on. When this feature was implemented many years ago, it wasn’t a requirement as multi-monitors were not the case. But as now we live in the era of multidisplay systems, we have created a story to track the current display change and reapply the display ICC profile on the fly.
Until then our developers suggested the following work around: “After the PhotoLab’s main window is moved to another screen, it is closed and then launched again. Windows remembers on what screen the application was used last time and runs it on this screen again.”
Right now PhotoLab uses the display profile held by Windows. I don’t know whether we will modify this behavior because now we only consider to add support of multi-display configurations, e.g. PhotoLab will detect when its window is moved to another screen and reapply the display profile of the new screen.
Yes it’s the calibration held on the minister. In my case 10bit. So pl doesn’t need a profile to use the calibration. If so how does it know what to use?
I am currently planning my next monitor purchase which is most likely to be the BenQ SW240
This not an especially high end model but does have the function for “hardware calibration” and that is what I was intending to do with it.
So at this stage I have no idea on how software such as PL3, LR or indeed any other will display correctly…I can only surmise the monitor receives the appropriate instruction whether it is generated by a ‘loaded’ profile in the GPU card or the hardware calibrated one interpreting what is being ‘sent’ for display.
But then maybe I am just overthinking it ???
So, Alex when you say
How will PL interact with such hardware calibrated monitors, if (for example?) the Windows one is a generic sRGB one???
PS I have now had another look at the Preferences and here is what it shows on the drop down
So, in regard to the BenQ SW240 it has the function to switch between aRGB and sRGB with single control button changes…therefore what to pick in the PL Preferences dropdown???
I have a BenQ SW270 with hardware calibration on a Mac.
DPL is defined with « Current profile of the display » which is the one I have calibrated.
With the 3 HW calibrations I have made, I can easily choose with the « ring buttons » which HW profile I want.
For instance, I have one with lower cd/m2 to better see how it could be when printed, and each time I choose a different calibration DPL is using it.
Set it to “native” and let the software (viewer and editing software) interpret the colorspace of the images. If it works correctly, sRGB and AdobeRGB pictures will look the same - well, almost in regards to certain colors (turquoise tones for example).
Just take care that every software uses the correct monitor profile. Windows is kind of tricky in this regard.
As stated, use the calibrated profile in Photolab, too.
For export, choose a proper sRGB profile, if you want to export it that way. PL will not do that, though there is such an option in the export menu…