just got my new dell U2711 :)

im all finger and thumbs, just arrived today so as yet havent had a chance to calibrate it or proper set it up.
do yous (that have it) tend to have it set for srgb when viewing web etc and switch it to adobe rgb for photo editing only ?

interested to know

its a fabulous piece of kit though

When you calibrate your monitor the calibration software will build a profile for the specific monitor that your system and color-managed software will use. You will not need to switch to the RGB monitor setting.

After you have calibrated your monitor, some software automatically "reads" the monitor profile (such as Photoshop and Lightroom). DPP, though, has to be told in the Preferences dialog to use the monitor profile.

In your software, the working color space is another matter. The common "safe" space to work in is sRGB, in which case your output images will be safe for Web and general viewing. Keep your workspace there. You can do this in DPP using Preferences, and in Photoshop using Edit/Color Preferences. Lightroom uses a built-in color space and you set an Export color space for your output.

thanks i will look at that tomoz
i have not had chance to go through menus etc
so in effect you are saying just stick it in wide gamut mode, calibrate it.
send the profile to the sysem, and the system will call that profile when colour aware software requires

i thought i read somewhere somebody had it in wide gamut mode and it messed with web viewing, but i could be wrong i cant remember exactly how he put it ?

i will look into it in the morning as i cant get on it now,
im just trying to get my head around how it works, never had that problem with old srgb limited screen so just learning and welcome your , its late here and im going cross eyed with tiredness

OK, I don't know about those issues. I myself don't have a wide gamut LCD. What I do have that comes in handy is a dual monitor setup with one calibrated monitor that I do my corrections on and another that comes in handy as a "reality check".

yes the monitor has srgb and argb mode so i need to find out more - cheers

For the most accurate color, you usually DON'T want to use color presets.

See this review:
http://www.tftcentral.​co.uk/reviews/dell_u27​11.htm

And this:
http://photo.net/digit​al-darkroom-forum/00WGpV