The day my bright magenta turned into dull brown on every other screen

So I spent like two weeks on this huge fantasy landscape piece, working late most nights. I was so proud of the sky, this really vibrant pink and purple sunset I made. Looked absolutely perfect on my laptop. I finally posted it and a friend messages me saying the colors look super muddy and washed out. I pulled it up on my phone and my tablet, and sure enough, my beautiful sunset was just a sad grayish brown mess. Turns out I had been working in the wrong color profile this whole time, some setting for printing I must have clicked by mistake. My screen was lying to me, showing colors my file didn't actually have. It was such a gut punch after all that work. I learned the hard way to always, always check your document settings before you even start sketching now.

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the_jana7mo ago

My monitor's warm tint tricked me for months, actually.

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william_taylor7mo ago

Man, I used to be so sure my screen was fine. Then I saw @the_jana's post and actually looked at a piece of white paper next to my monitor. My whole screen had this gross yellow layer over everything. No wonder my photos looked weird and my documents felt off. I guess I just got used to it, but now I can't unsee it.

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hugo_flores7mo ago

I spent a whole weekend recalibrating my screen with a Spyder tool after a similar thing. Did you get it fixed?

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