is 4K really needed?

[zoran]

I am a Creative using AdobeCC apps (Illu, Pshop, Indesign) and i have no clue if 4K is needed for my workflow, nor what difference it will make compared to a non4K display with 2560x1440 res.
Also is a 4K display considered to be close or better than a Retina display?

 

[dmr727]

Also is a 4K display considered to be close or better than a Retina display?

It would depend on the size of the monitor, right?

 

[zoran]

Im used to working on my 27" iMac, so i guess 27"-30" would be fine for me. Question is will a Retina or 4K display do anything special to the workflow im on?

 

[dmr727]

Can't speak to your workflow, but on a 27" display you probably won't find 2560x1440 to be quite as 'crisp' as what you're used to with your iMac. Some people are more sensitive to it than others - perhaps head to your local store and look at a few 2560x1440 displays to see what you think.

 

[zoran]

Iam pretty satisfied with my mid 2010 iMac display and that display is not a Retina but it is pretty good! U recon the only way to go between Retina and my mid2010 iMac display is to go to a 4K?

 

[0906742]

I am a Creative using AdobeCC apps (Illu, Pshop, Indesign) and i have no clue if 4K is needed for my workflow, nor what difference it will make compared to a non4K display with 2560x1440 res.
Also is a 4K display considered to be close or better than a Retina display?

Fonts will looks much better on 4K monitor due to support for HiDPI fonts which are not supported on QHD monitors.
I just upgraded from QHD monitor to 4K and fonts look so much better.

 

[boswald]

Fonts will looks much better on 4K monitor due to support for HiDPI fonts which are not supported on QHD monitors.
I just upgraded from QHD monitor to 4K and fonts look so much better.

Good to hear. The font rendering on a 1080p monitor is killing me.

 

[zoran]

I just upgraded from QHD monitor to 4K and fonts look so much better.

What 4K monitor did u upgrade to?

 

[0906742]

What 4K monitor did u upgrade to?

Lg 32UN880-B (32"), it is pretty nice actually. I had Dell U2720Q (27") but uniformity was terrible and I did not find it worth the price. Also it did not seem to have recalibrated P3 mode.

 

[JahBoolean]

Never really needed, but it does make working on your computer immensely more agreeable, see if that is worth the expense for you.

 

[zoran]

I had Dell U2720Q (27") but uniformity was terrible

What exactly do you mean by uniformity?

it did not seem to have recalibrated P3 mode.

What is that?

 

[0906742]

What exactly do you mean by uniformity?

I mean than solid white and lighter gray image had magenta tint on the left side and greenish tint on the right.
Simply like this forum where there are white bars on the both sides, you could clearly see they were different tint.

What is that?

Well, P3 is color space Apple Macs and better iPads as well as most iPhones use, so if you want your monitor picture to look anything like what you see in Apple build in displays, that is what you want from your monitor. And it should be calibrated as well unless you want to get colorimeter and calibrate it yourself, but still you need a monitor that has P3 gamut as close to 100% as possible. Very few monitors actually have that unless you want to pay astronomical price.

Dell U2720Q's I tried seemed to have not so good support for P3 out of the box and even this mode was well hidden and did not look very good at all. With my new LG 32UN880-B default DCI-P3 color mode is pretty good, and looks very close to the same as my MBA M1 side by side checking the same images. This is not either the most uniform display (very few are on my standards anyway ) but not even nearly as bad as those Dell's were and there is not obvious uniformity issues.