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Oversaturated colors on P3 monitors

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Description

Hello,

I recently purchased a modern monitor capable of displaying more colors than sRGB.
I'm using this monitor with macOS, and now the colors of images in Fiji look oversaturated.
When I export the image to TIF from Fiji and open it in Photoshop or macOS Preview, the colors do not look oversaturated.
Please see attached image - usually the oversaturated colors don't show in browsers, but they should be apparent when downloaded and opened in Preview on a wide gamut monitor.
The image on the left is the image as opened in Fiji. The image in the middle is the image exported as TIF and opened in macOS Preview. The image on the right is the exported image assigned a sRGB profile in Photoshop, saved, then opened in Preview.
I suppose this could complicate preparing images for figures because the look of the colors are changing from Fiji to Photoshop and so on. I'm not sure about PC monitors, but most of Apple's Mac products now have P3 monitors?
Is there any way to address this issue?

Thank you.
Sincerely,
Hyung-song Nam, PhD

![Screen Shot 2022-07-02 at 10 27 39 PM](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36607862/177024624-ff33c0a9-da1c-48a8-9cb6-d014ebd98103.png)

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the attached image workflow in Fiji on macOS with a P3 monitor, then compare the in-app display with the exported TIF in Photoshop and Preview. Done means the same image colors are displayed consistently across Fiji and the referenced macOS applications, with behavior on wide-gamut monitors documented.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
computer-vision, desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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