11-14-2013, 12:53 PM
Your Dell IPS monitor is capable of reproducing more of the Adobe RGB gamut. This is why you can see rich colours and subtle nuances in hue shift. The other monitors aren't capable of representing the same range.
There might be other factors at play too, like the contrast ratio of each monitor. Or if you're outputting a jpeg for web, it'll have an sRGB colourspace, so your colours won't be as vivid.
You'll never be able to control what the user sees on their screen either, so it's all kind of futile, but you shouldn't worry too much as display on screen isn't nearly as colour-critical as print.
The tools in Dave's blog post look good; I'd recommend calibrating your IPS to the best representation of those tests. Calibrate the other monitors too, eyeballing the IPS as a guide. You can then use the secondary monitors as a gauge for how your image will be viewed by others and before final output do some tweaks to curves and saturation till it produces a result that's acceptable on those screens.
There might be other factors at play too, like the contrast ratio of each monitor. Or if you're outputting a jpeg for web, it'll have an sRGB colourspace, so your colours won't be as vivid.
You'll never be able to control what the user sees on their screen either, so it's all kind of futile, but you shouldn't worry too much as display on screen isn't nearly as colour-critical as print.
The tools in Dave's blog post look good; I'd recommend calibrating your IPS to the best representation of those tests. Calibrate the other monitors too, eyeballing the IPS as a guide. You can then use the secondary monitors as a gauge for how your image will be viewed by others and before final output do some tweaks to curves and saturation till it produces a result that's acceptable on those screens.