Wide-gamut monitor + ICC profile makes everything look desaturated (Photoshop, browsers, apps) — removing the profile matches my phone. What's the correct workflow?
I'm a graphic designer working mostly on social media content /branding Hoping someone can sanity-check my color setup.
Hardware:
- Monitor: GIGABYTE M27Q2 (wide gamut the profile measures it at ~146% of sRGB)
- GPU: RTX 3060 Ti
- OS: Windows
The profile:
The ICC was made with Calibrite software and the numbers look correct — D65 white point, 275 cd/m², gamma 2.2, very gentle VCGT, and a validated ΔE of 0.7. So the calibration itself is genuinely accurate this isn't a bad-profile problem.
The problem:
With the ICC profile assigned in Windows Color Management, things look noticeably desaturated/washed out not just in Photoshop, but generally: browsers, image viewers, and other apps all look flat and muted too. The moment I remove the profile from Color Management, the colors look vivid and correct again everywhere.
To settle it, I checked a design on a friend's iPhone (color-managed, P3 display) the vivid version (profile removed) is the one that matches the phone. The desaturated version does not. , any help this is driving me crazy i've done all the possible things
