Originally Posted by
John Curran
Every CRT monitor that I've taken possession of, had to be reset to 6500K. All of them came out of the box with a default setting in the 9000K range. I have read that this because the higher color temperture reduces eye fatigue when the ambient light is flourescent, which is true of most offices where most computers are used. While newer laptops afford users the ability to adjust thier color temperatures, most older ones do not. The only way I can adjust the color temp of my IBM T21 (my internet machine) is through the Adobe Gamma Loader. What about the users who don't have Photoshop installed?
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I'm not so sure that converting to sRGB prevents images from appearing washed out on blue monitors. sRGB is a smaller color gamut that is more efficient for images posted to the web (smaller file sizes), however I don't think it offers any guarantee as to color accuracy from monitor to monitor. (I do post my images in sRGB).
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