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Nanofranne
Would you say an OLED screen be a worthy investment for learning and professional work for anything related for creative works? I feel like I need one for my future needs, mainly for drawing, 3d modelling and sculpting, and editing videos.

Currently I'm limited with my 60%-ish colour gamut of sRGB on TN panel of my laptop. I often need to double-check how is the colour on my phone, and then compensate it in my laptop.

Any advice welcomed
SupaV
if i were you i'd just get a reasonably good IPS display with high color accuracy, as usually OLED is prohibitively expensive on a laptop, especially if you want to truly ball out.

unless you're actually a professional who does creative work for a living, try not to ball out and get a really color accurate OLED screen. 3d modelling, drawing, sculpting and especially video editing surprisingly don't require pixel perfect color accuracy if you're doing it as a hobby, you simply need a good enough IPS display
a1l2d3r4e5d6
You don't need an OLED display, especially if you're a creator just starting out.

The colour accuracy will degrade overtime with no permanent fix because they're vulnerable to burn-in. Sure you can get it accurate again through calibration, but it will become progressively difficult to do so until it becomes almost impossible to get it accurate. There's a reason most professional monitors today are IPS, and not OLED as the former can display colours more reliably against the latter.
Monitors will get inaccurate overtime, but OLEDs will do it faster and will likely become permanent sooner. In that sense, an OLED screen isn't a good investment for your intentions.

Edit: Also yeah, panel type doesn't equate to better colour accuracy. You could have an OLED screen that loses accuracy under certain conditions like displaying a bright image. Heck I don't even trust my phone anymore for colour-proofing.

I always suggest a screen that's at least capable of accurately displaying the full sRGB colour space, as that is the most common type used by most media published on the internet.
If you're mainly just posting digital art on the web, then sRGB is likely all you really need. Monitors that can do this are relatively inexpensive these days.

Note though that there's a difference between colour gamut capability and colour accuracy. You could get 2 screens capable of 100% sRGB but one could have overly-saturated/washed-out colours.

It gets a bit more complex if you're working professionally in the creative industry as different types of work require specific colour spaces.
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Nanofranne
I see, so It isn't really worth of an investment given how expensive and not as reliable OLED panel is. I guess i'd look up to better IPS panel with higher colour gamut. Thanks!
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