Hi! Color management is difficult, and in most cases, leaving it to sRGB is the safest option - that is to be considered the "default" for most monitors.
See a monitor color profile as a way of adjusting the image, so it looks closer to the 'real world' colors on your monitor. So the color profile is a way to adjust to the differences each monitor has. Things are not that easy though. If you are using a generic color profile for your monitor, you need to know exactly how your monitor must be adjusted (brightness, contrast, whitebalance, etc) for the profile to be effective. Otherwise your image will be 'wrong' anyway. There are tools to create a custom monitor profile, by measuring and adjusting your monitor. I don't know the tools for Linux, but for Windows I've used a Spyder color calibrator. This enables you to do a custom profile for your specific monitor, which is useful as long as you don't change settings on your monitor. If your "System Display Profile" is (noticably) different than sRGB, your installation may have choosen a generic monitor profile for you. Whether you feel it better represent the "real" colors is really up to you. Compare the images on several different monitors to get an impression of how your monitors behave in relation to others. I hope this gives you something to start off with. Regards, On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Tim Marston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Should I just select sRGB for both the CRT and LCD displays? And on > the uncalibrated CRT display, why does changing between sRGB and > "System Display Profile" have an effect on the displayed image? What > *is* the system display profile for an uncalibrated monitor? > > Thanks for any help -- I'm still new to all this colour theory stuff. > Regards, Klaus Post http://www.klauspost.com
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