Another Monitor Question

[Neelly]

I am about to treat myself to a new monitor and as I game a bit the thought crossed my mind that a 32inch curved display would be rather nice.

However I then wondered how this would affect my photo editing, not sure how looking at curved photos would be.

So my question is does anyone use a curved display for editing and if so how do they find it..



Neil

[Manfred M]

Curved screens are aimed at gamers and do not necessarily work well for photo editing.

When I set up my daughter's curved screen it was not compliant with any of the colour spaces that photographers use (primarily sRGB or Adobe RGB)and it is limited in getting the brightness down far enough to be used for photo editors tend to use. Gamers tend to like bright and high contrast screens and photographers tend to go for accurate rendering of colours.

Check the specs before buying and make sure that the screen delivers what you need.

[pnodrog]

I have a MSI PS341WU monitor (34" 5120x2160). It's a flat screen, 98% DCI-P3 and 100% sRGB, nano IPS. It is a delight to use for photo editing. If you want to you can use LR and Photoshop side by side. However I don't as I enjoy a large area of screen to display either the photo being edited or the LR library thumbnails at a generous size.

My son who uses twin 24" monitors for all his work found it for me and is very envious. The on screen colours seem to be reasonable accurate but I have not done any of my own printing using it, I have however edited then sent out several calendars and a photobook to be commercially printed and they all came back with the colour rendition I had hoped for.

[ajohnw]

Afraid I think curved screens are a gimmick when the nature of the human eye is considered especially when studying something. We look around in the area shown not just directly at it when used for things like PP. Being curved doesn't alter that. Also when applied to a TV I know for a fact that the curve is very likely to focus reflections more effectively into the eye than a flat screen. I couldn't wait to get rid of it and a bit of thought might have prevented me from buying it.

As mentioned by others look for statements of full gamut coverage for the ones that interest you. A calibrator and it's software should show what has been achieved. Gradient tests can be rather extreme. As a check for what calibration has achieved I use this rather old site. Also it's black point test..
https://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/...nsitivity.html