Abundant Love (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 06/17/11 | Reply
I'd recommend reading up on panel types and other specs on TFT Central and Wikipedia. For professional graphic design, you'd probably want a monitor with an IPS panel as those tend to have the most accurate colors, but they also tend to cost quite a bit more than the more common TN panels.
Your laptop most likely uses the standard sRGB color space, so you'd just want a monitor that also uses sRGB for the colors to match. A wide gamut monitor can be calibrated to display colors as they'd appear on an sRGB display, but this either requires a colorimeter (which are expensive) or trusting one of the ICC profiles from TFT Central and only works in color managed applications. Photoshop can do color management, but I don't know about other graphics programs.
Last edited by Desbreko at 3:58:55 AM CDT on June 17, 2011.
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Goggalor (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 06/17/11 | Reply
@Desbreko:
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Imaginary Duck (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 06/17/11 | Reply
@Desbreko:
The King of Tech-Savvy has spoken.
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Abundant Love (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 06/17/11 | Reply
I'd recommend reading up on panel types and other specs on TFT Central and Wikipedia. For professional graphic design, you'd probably want a monitor with an IPS panel as those tend to have the most accurate colors, but they also tend to cost quite a bit more than the more common TN panels.
Your laptop most likely uses the standard sRGB color space, so you'd just want a monitor that also uses sRGB for the colors to match. A wide gamut monitor can be calibrated to display colors as they'd appear on an sRGB display, but this either requires a colorimeter (which are expensive) or trusting one of the ICC profiles from TFT Central and only works in color managed applications. Photoshop can do color management, but I don't know about other graphics programs.
Last edited by Desbreko at 3:58:55 AM CDT on June 17, 2011.