I bought a Dell 2408 monitor recently. After a week of fighting with it to calibrate it right, I was getting very frustrated with the super saturated greens and reds which make it pretty useless as a photo editing monitor. Unfortunately, this ‘problem’ was mentioned by many reviewers.

While I was thinking about returning this monitor, I ran into this thread in FredMiranda.

Since the Dell 2408 has a very wide gamut of colors, wider than even AdobeRGB, only color aware apps such as Photoshop and Lightroom can show true colors.

For the longest time, I thought Safari was color aware, looks like it isn’t. Thankfully, Firefox 3 is color aware. With a little bit of tweaking, I was able to enable color management in Firefox.

See image for details. about:config and enable color management. Thats it.

Now the colors are accurate in any color aware app.

Fantastic information in this Adobe
Forums thread. This page immediately shows the problem as well.

More information about this when I discussed this in my local photo club here.

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