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Thanks for the response.

I know I need to properly calibrate my monitor, and plan to do so. But something is just totally broken right now in my setup with the "correct" ICC profile, and that's why I'm thinking I'm just doing something wrong. It looks totally off (compared to the srgb one) - I wouldn't think that Dell's profile would be this broken. It's not just inconsistent with a printout, or too bright or something - it looks like a noisy, dithered mess.

I'm not setting the working space in photoshop to the monitor profile, that was just for testing.

Thanks again.

I have what seems to be a strange problem, but it may be just that I'm

doing something wrong as I'm fairly new to this stuff.

I just bought a Dell 2405FPW 24" LCD monitor for my PC, and I'm

getting really horrible color and detail in my RAW photos in ICC-aware

applications like photoshop or RawShooter (looks really noisy and as

if it's at a lower than normal bit depth). I'm using the latest

2405fpw ICC profile from Dell. However, if I go to the Color

Management panel in windows and add the built-in srgb profile, and use

that instead of the monitor profile, everything looks correct, in both

rawshooter and photoshop cs2.

Similarly, if, while using the 2405FPW ICC profile in windows, I open

my image in PS and go to Edit->Assign Profile and use the profile

"Dell 2405FPW Color Profile" instead of the working profile of SRGB,

it looks correct.

I have PS set to a working space of srgb.

What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't the Dell profile be the one to use,

instead of the generic srgb one?

Many thanks.