From the TIL department

jmucchiello

Do folks here use sRGB mode on their monitors (if it has one)? I didn't know it existed until now and I'm confused if it is something I should bother with. Sorry if this is a big can of worms.

DrunkMonkeyProductions

srgb(Standard Red Green Blue) is the default color space for most consumer monitors.

If there are other options to set the color space, it proabely means you either have a photo editing or cinema editing oriented monitor.

It's also possible ti's complete hooey, and the settings don't actually change the color space.

The only way to be sure would be to check the owner's manual, and you'd need to get a calibration tool to verify the accuracy of the monitor.

 

 

 

 

jmucchiello

Many monitors have HDR capabilities. The sRGB mode limits the colors to 8-bit per channel. (Based on my recent research)

I was looking at older images I've rendered and they don't seem out of balance so it might be something useful for colorgrade fanatics. :)

Richard Haseltine

Just because a monitor says it is using sRGB doesn't mean it actually is. There are software tools to try crudely measuring, but if you really want to get your display to hit a known standard then you need a hardware profiling/callibration tool like the i1 or Spyder.

Bejaymac

sRGB is basically everything you see on your monitor, needs to be a pretty high end premium/pro monitor to get the wider color gamut for the richer colors.

You also have the issue that most monitors don't use full RGB by default and use a limited RGB (16-230-ish) instead, which means you need to go into the settings and change it to full (0-255).