What viewer do you use/trust

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I have calibrated my laptop using spyder3, and have been happy with the results. However when I finish my edit in lightroom and export the photo as a jpeg and go to view the image in windows preview, the image looks fine in the small preview but when I click to go to slideshow, the images changes a fair bit. It actually loses saturation and contrast. So im wondering what the hell is going on here and also if other users go by the edited result they see within PS/LR etc.. or the exported/published result?
 
I have sRGB selected.
 
I could do with this help too... Hsuffya, cant get my camera up for sale till i get 100 posts!!! arrgghh hopefully sooooooon and will be back in touch mate
 
I think the windows picture viewer seems to do this quite a lot, going by statements to the same effect I've seen elsewhere. I tend to use XNview and ACDSee to view images, they seem to do just fine.
 
VirtualAdept said:
I think the windows picture viewer seems to do this quite a lot, going by statements to the same effect I've seen elsewhere. I tend to use XNview and ACDSee to view images, they seem to do just fine.
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thank you for the suggestion. I'll try them out tonight.

Is sRGB the best colourspace to select?
 
i figured out what the issue was, after much searching. In W7, the colour management option, has a setting in the advanced tab, called device profile, which wasnt pointed to my calibrated monitor profile, after I changed that, my image previews got a lot better. Full screen preview still sucks though.
 
Guys, I am having the same problem. I edit the images in CS3/Lightroom and the .tiffs, psd's look fine. I convert to jpg and if I view in Windows Photo Viewer they all look very similar. However if I use Nero Photo Snap viewer to view the jpg, the image look cooler and less saturated.

I thought the nero proramme was an anomoly. I have just emailed one of my pictures using Microsoft Live mail (the new Outlook Express). You can't preview the image before sending, only attach it. After sending you can see the attachment and it looks exactly the same as the Nero version! I'm horrified, it looks totally wrong. Any ideas?
 
Remember, RGB are the colours of 'light' (on your monitor).
What's important is "How do they print?"
 
sledger said:
Remember, RGB are the colours of 'light' (on your monitor).
What's important is "How do they print?"
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true, but when you put images on your website for clients to see then monitor output matters too.
 
You will never be able to control how your images appear on other peoples monitors, I won't go into the details, the reasons should be obvious enough.
It simply isn't worth obsessing about.
 
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