Quote (Canadian_Man @ 14 Jul 2013 01:27)
No, only photoshop and lightroom display different colors (and Paint also displays the same color as lightroom & photoshop).
Windows image viewer & viewing the image online show an overall darker image. So when I edit, I tend to have to keep an image slightly lighter-looking in ps or lightroom in order to achieve the desired results when I show the image off.
I have a 27-inch LCD screen I picked up 2 years ago... I like it... it works nicely... but I'll be replacing it with an IPS in the future I guess.
I have a killer IPS screen, it is amazing, HOWEVER its not what I recommend 1st, calibration is way more important so 1st get a calibration tool you will see a vast improvement
you should always see a slight difference in PS/LR compared to on the net etc as PS/LR use AdobeRGB and the net can only handle sRGB
in LR/PS we use AdobeRGB as it covers more of the colour spectrum and therefore gives a truer representation, this is great for printing or viewing on PCs but when uploading to the web we need to export from PS/LR as sRGB, also a good idea to let PS/LR resize to the required size for the specific website and also reduce dpi to 96 (std web settings)
PS/LR does a much better job of the conversion and resizing than the web software
if this is done then the final exported image should be very similar in all applications etc
oh and remember to export 2 images
one for web (jpeg) and 1high quality, can depend on how or who prints your photos, but something like tiff 300dpi etc