HELP: Alienware 17 R3 UHD Reddish/inaccurate Colour tone ?

Hi Everyone,

Just got my Alienware 17 R3 with UHD Display today. Everything else seems to be good so far apart from the UHD screen.

The UHD display seems to be showing everything really warm with a reddish tint. Skin tones are extremely RED in photos. I have tried a couple of Colour profiles (adobe and one I found online for R3) ICC by adding them in Colour management settings but no luck screen remains the same

My FHD Display on the L702x seems way better than this UHD at the moment until I find a solution.

any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

 

From what I have read, the UHD display was given a orange (maybe red?) tint to optimize for videos. Assuming you have a NVIDIA card (you could likely do the same with an AMD card), access the control panel and click on "Adjust desktop color settings". You should be able to mess with the individual colors (as well as all of them together, brightness/contrast, etc.). See if you can't lessen the red (separately) to get it closer to where you want it to be.

 

Have you checked out one of my profiles on this thread?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...80p-version-on-r3.789172/page-2#post-10270474

Also, I have turned down the Saturation in the intel control panel by -10 to make the color a bit more accurate to a few other displays I have. Try this too and see if it helps

 

Hi Heatshiver,

There's another colour profile available for download on YouTube, it says "The initial reddish (warm color temp) is all gone now"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzOx5azZjQA
The profile download link is below the video.

Not saying there's anything wrong with the profiles offered by Mickbt26, just that it's nice to have the choice, as screen colour is subjective.

 

btw mine the orange is very bright. Not a red tint but very bright. I went into the Intel color profile setting and adjusted the gamma setting. Its much better now

 

Thank you everyone for the replies. Unfortunately I ran into other issues with the system so it is getting returned today.
The laptop started randomly crashing a few hours out of the box. One of the speaker was dimmer than the other. Text was not rendering properly on Web pages.

Tech support offered to "Fix" it but I refused as wasn't happy having all these issues on day one and chose to return it instead.
Have been given a 15% off code so may buy again soon

 

Quick tip for you.

Do you use lightroom or photoshop to edit RAW files? If you export a photo in the adobeRGB color space, the photo will look a lot more accurate compared to exporting in the sRGB color space with this monitor.
The reddish tints will be gone.

The export wont look any different on lesser monitors that cannot display the full adobeRGB color space

 

Hi Mickbt26,

I really don't understand that logic.

The AW 4K screen can produce 100% of the Adobe RGB and 100% of the RGB. Properly calibrated what you see on the screen should be what you get when you print, a perfect image.

Lesser monitors that cannot produce 100% of the Adobe RGB and 100% of the RGB, even if perfectly calibrated cannot produce the same perfect image as the AW 17 4K screen, that's obvious from the specifications of the screen.

 

I noticed it in lightroom.
What was happening was when I exported the file in the sRGB color space the colors were too vibrant when viewed with a photo viewer and made them look to oversaturated.
So I tried exporting it in the adobeRGB color space and they are correct and very close in color to what my tablet is showing.

Funny thing is, if i viewed both exported images on my tablet they look exactly the same.

 

Hi Mickbt26,

But if you calibrate the screen correctly to either RGB or Adobe RGB then what you print should look identical to what's on the screen?

Had you calibrated your screen to one or the other, or neither?

The issue with reddish screen is easily fixed with either calibration or using one of the profiles offered on this thread. I would rather have my screen calibrated to show the correct colours than just expect the right colours to come out of the printer, especially if I'm using photo editing software to adjust the images, as I wouldn't know what to adjust the images to in order to get the right colours when I printed the images out.

 

Yeh I'm using one of my calibrated profiles that I linked in an earlier thread and I've tried a few others online, but it does not get rid over the oversaturated colors.
It's only when viewing an image that was saved in the adobeRGB color space that the photo looks accurate and not oversaturated.

Do you have the UHD on your r3?

 

Yeh I'm using one of my calibrated profiles that I linked in an earlier thread and I've tried a few others online, but it does not get rid over the oversaturated colors.
It's only when viewing an image that was saved in the adobeRGB color space that the photo looks accurate and not oversaturated.

Do you have the UHD 17r3?

 

Hi Mickbt26,

I have the UHD on my 17 R3.

Did you try this profile?
http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/t/19664195

 

I have tried this profile and it is very similar to my calibration on an older spyder. It still doesnt stop the oversaturated colors in photo viewers.

When you load a picture into lightroom the color looks accurate and not over-saturated. I think its to do with the Lightroom program being color managed or something.

I have uploaded this photo. Both photos are exactly the same with no editing done in lightroom. The one on the left is with windows photo viewer. The one on the right is through lightroom. Can you see the difference?