these days it's easy to go a little overboard when you're buying a monitor
with 4K Ultra wide and adaptive refresh
displays all jockeying for your attention you might expect to be blown
away after plugging in your rig's Finishing Touch but wait a minute
despite your monitor's high price tag something looks a miss the colors are
all wrong how could this happen on such
an expensive component well we've
covered the reasons that monitors can look so different from each other in
these episodes here but today we're going to talk about ways to calibrate
your monitor properly to get accurate crisp colors whether you spent a hundred
bucks or a th000 now there are multiple
ways to calibrate your screen so let's start with the simplest and cheapest and
work our way upward but whatever one you pick make sure your monitor is turned on
for at least 30 minutes before starting so it can warm up and hit its usual
level of brightness method number one
for some quick and dirty display correction both Windows and macOS
provide built-in tools to adjust gamma a
setting that affects brightness and color ratios as well as contrast and
color levels this method is fast and
free but since you're expected to eyeball what the sample image should
look like without a calibrated reference it's not much better than checking your
car speed by sticking your hand out the window but if you'd like to go a little
bit deeper with your monitor settings there's method two check out one of the
free websites we've Linked In the description that have more test images
and patterns that you can use to get your display looking nice on your own
these sites take longer and still rely on you eyeballing things but they'll
give you more more samples than what's built into your OS for more granular
fine-tuning and better Real World results of course if you're a little
more serious about color because you're a graphic designer home theater
Enthusiast or you run a tech Channel on YouTube you might not trust yourself to
get these things right just by fiddling with the monitor yourself in this case
you may want to try method number three downloading a color profile for your
display color profiles help map color
information in files and UI Elements which are stored as a series of numbers
to actual colors that your screen can
display there are a number of standardized profiles such as srgb a
common default profile for computers and Adobe RGB Which is popular with
photographers and designers but there are custom profiles available for
specific display models to help them reproduce colors more accurately if you
you want to see if there's one for your monitor there are websites staffed by
professionals that have created color profiles for many different displays
which we've also linked in the video description along with a page on how to
install a color profile on Windows but
it should be noted that even that might
not be enough to get your monitor looking its best slight manufacturing
differences in display panels can result in even two units of the same model
right next to each other connected to the same computer displaying colors
differently so if you want to be super serial about your display calibration
you'll want to try method number four buying a hardware calibrator that you
place on your screen then run accompanying software the calibrator
will then be able to tell you exactly how much your color balance luminance
and other factors need to be adjusted to get your display as accurate as possible
possible not only that but most calibrators will save a special custom
color profile for your monitor as well
the downside is Hardware calibrators can be a little pricey they typically start
at $100 but electronic shops sometimes
offer them for rental if you aren't a professional who constantly needs to
recalibrate displays so while it would be nice if all of our monitors looked
perfect out of the box the reality is a little leg work can go a long way
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