Tried calibrating my grandpa's old tv now it's an 8k ultra wide

Things like this make me glad I'm colorblind I mean sure I can't be a police officer, fireman, do any special ops infantry in any military, be a pilot, probably shouldn't be an electrician, doubt many surgeons would be happy if I can't tell the blue body thing from the red body thing, can't drive in Australia... but I don't have to calibrate my monitors.

Linus looks like a ghost. Do I need to calibrate my monitor, or is he just that pasty?

If i buy additional pixels how can i install them into my monitor?

I see a day when monitors can auto calibrate based on your eye test results.

Shouldn't Monitor companies run a Calibration tool upon packing and having its own custom calibration settings built into it?

Oh yes! I've been waiting a video like this for years, thank you.

It's funny that this episode is about calibration yet this video seemingly had none done to it as Linus looks like he is a zombie from some vintage film..

I've used Lagom's LCD test for a long time to calibrate my displays and it's surprising just how good you can get the color profiles if you work through the entire thing a couple times. Testing against a colorimeter, as long as your careful and have good eyes you can get it pretty close to your monitors optimal calibration. Having had to do this multiple times over on the same display, I highly suggest backing up your monitor's color profile if your monitor provides software to export and import settings or if you really have to write down the dialed in settings. While the display will degrade over time and require adjustments, it's a lot easier starting from your previous settings than factory defaults.

This is one of the more helpful techquickie videos recently. This topic hasn't received the coverage it deserves on KZfaq.

I understand it's asking for a lot, but I would like to see a follow-up video concerning colour calibration hardware and how certain models perform at given price ranges. I don't trust my eyesight for calibrating a display and as far as I'm concerned it's a worthy investment.

I know this video is old but it was super helpful. I was able to find a color profile from tft central that is in my opinion absolutely amazing and actually made my viewing experience less strenuous on my eyes and the colors were far more vibrant and objects started to pop and look more clear. Thank yo uguys for always making such helpful videos.

So basically we are fucked with all 3 options unless we get that calibrating tool.

Linus, how would I do without you? Great tips for calibrating my monitor! Thank you!

Speaking of color accuracy...this is the best looking Tech Quickie I've seen in quite a long time. Whatever y'all did differently, keep on doing it!

An unexpected surprise how-to video that I have recently been researching. Thanks!!

I've just realized that the general quality of videos uploaded on Techquickie is way better than the quality of videos on LTT. And, as far as I know, Techquickie is supposed to be a side project. I honestly love this channel and the fact that the Techquickie team takes their time to make very informative and concise videos makes it even better.

Perfect timing to find this video as I've just now been getting around to try to do this. Thanks Linus!

This is great ! i used method 4 , and now my 3 monitor setup for my flightsim X-Plane 11 , all look the same ! Thanks !

Idea for a future video: television placement on wall in relation to position of viewer, and size of television in relation to distance from viewer. Thank you.

On Mac you can access the "expert" mode on calibration by holding the Option key (or Alt on non-Apple keyboards) and then clicking the "Calibrate" button.

I really liked this video! As someone who has done a fair bit of calibration (being a graphic designer), it's not always easy to explain this stuff to people who have never heard of it. I do however wish you would have touched on the importance of ambient light and the colors in your surroundings. Nonetheless, great video!

huh, my screen is fine but there was a talking spray tan at about mid day. whats up with that?

color's off in the video.

Man that calibration site is a shout. I did the calibration set up on xbox one (which was a basic version) when I got my monitor and it really helped. I will be using this site when I'm at my pc 👍

Thanks again Linus. This was awesome for me. Easy as hell too.

so real question that i've always wondered. i decided to use the ICC profile on the page you linked. when calibrating, should i keep all of my monitor settings at default and just use the sofware to calibrate, or would i also need to adjust the settings on the monitor as well? i feel like making adjustments on both would just cause colors to turn out weird and for everything to not work out.

With LCD sort of monitors I find that to start usually the brightness is important to go as a high a possible, although some have gone like weird with too much brightness. Then the contrast generally screws things up, because I think it starts to limit grey levels as it is increased. So you can try to see if it is ok. Then I figure out which of the 3 additive primaries is strongest and set that to max value. Then I adjust the other 2, until white areas appear white. Then I maybe alter the gamma if mid tones seem to light. I almost never saw a monitor that looked good as it was shipped.

Do i need to use a different software like Displaycal on a 1440p ips monitor? Or is the software that comes with the spyder5 hardware enough ? a answer will be very appreciated pls.

the profiles are especially valuable to us who have Korean monitors with no built-in menu settings. They saved me for sure.

4:30 thank you for reminding how you look like a talking dead person on my screen normally. But it was closest I got my asus vg248qe monitor.

linus ur video is legitimately helpful ,things up

just moved to pc i would have never managed without you guys thanks

thank you for making this, no other videos are good

This was insanely useful. Thank you very much. :)

I didn't realise until seeing this video that you can get different colour profiles for similar monitors on the same PC. I was using different models with different resolutions supported, so I didn't bother that much to make them look the same and instead focused on what they were meant for: one for gaming, one for video/photo viewing. I imagine running into that issue would be quite frustrating for most people.

Linus, the information in this video is golden!

How can you justified the color accuracy for various screens products such as: LED screen OLED screen Retina screen Plasma screen is dead When I print a photo from my MacBook Pro LCD screen to the Epson printer that prints the image more color accuracy than that of the HP, Canon, or some other printers.

This video is #GOLD Thank you for the great work.

Thanks Linus for the video and links now my Ips monitor even looks better

I have a Gateway FHD2303L I use with my MacBook pro. Im still unable to get the picture right and I've tried almost all free tuning methods. I first noticed the issue when I was looking at a word doc and something was said to be highlighted and I could hardly tell. It shows up on my retina display, but not the FHD2303L. However, I can see the highlights just fine if I look at the screen from below, as if it were mounted above me and slightly in front of me.

Is there anything you can do about bad color uniformity? Like my when I pull up an all white picture on my screen, the white has a slight yellow tint on certain areas on the monitor. Mostly on the upper left

Just got my new Benq 24" GL2460 monitor; and this really helped me a lot thanks Linus! :D

In Danish we say "Guldkorn" which translates directly to golden corn. it's basically golden words, or best tips. As this video was. WOW I've been looking for an explanation on all this and how to do it. THANK YOU.

Could this work on calibrating tvs? Like Smart TV's, 4k TV's, and normal 1080p TVs that are 60-240hz?

Watched a video from last year then watched this , his voice got deeper by a bit :D

Hey, I got a problem. Can you help me out ? I use HP 24f. The problem is after windows update it always loses the color. Like the contrast and color depth go away. More like when we convert something from RGB to CMYK. I heard that it's a problem of HP monitors and Windows don't have any solution to it. Do you have any idea ? Thanks

THANK YOU !! I've been fighting to correct black levels on my monitor THANK YOU SO MUCH for reminding me to use google

Damn. I posted a question about this exact thing a few days ago. Wish granted. Thanks LMG!

There is a problem, you can calibrate using the monitor itself, and also using software like Nvidia Control Panel, should you use one, the other or a combination of both? If using software, should you set the monitor to default values? Max out the settings?

Just did the windows built-in calibration. Fast and easy, night and day difference! Thanks Linus!

so, i'm new to this. so, essentially, what I'm trying to do when I am calibrating my BM5WR monitor, i'm trying to match my Black Magic Design Cinema 4K camera? Meaning, let's say a 56000 WB setting on the BM5WR isn't necessarily the same (visually) 56000 WB on my BMPCC 4k? Is this correct? OR am i calibrating both the camera and the monitor? thanks for the help guys.

Trump looks orange in my monitor, do I need to adjust the color of my monitor?

Linus! You should do an updated version testing color calibration devices!!

I like to use 75% color saturation using my AMD gpu drivers, does this fuck around with the color calibration and should I just ignore color calibration completely or is it possible (and even useful) to calibrate my monitors colors with the saturation turned up? My priority is color saturation > color calibration but I do want to test it out

Linus, what calibration do you use on your LG 34UC97? i have one myself and can't find calibration profile on TFT Central. Thanks!

Assuming that I can find color profiles for them, how can I set them when I have a Asus VS239H-P 23.0" flanked on both sides by a Acer B226HQL 21.5"? Can I load multiple profiles? And if so, how?

Speaking of color calibration, for the love of all that is good, can you please go calibrate the devices of whoever edits the Tech Quickie videos? For some reason, they all have this weird yellowish tinge on parts of skin tones that aren't present in any of the other LMG videos, so there's gotta be something about Tech Quickie that's giving you Simpsons hands.

Lagom is one of my favorite words

Those color edits in the vid actually made me doubt my own calibration skills for a sec.

I like your reviews. Thanks

You guys coming in clutch I just got my new ips pannel monitor

Thank You ... very helpful information ... !!!

I'm using same color profile, but the color of my monitor are still not the same. If I save an image file, how do I know which monitor is the right color? Because if I adjust the color in monitor A and looks okay, the monitor B is dull. And if I adjust in monitor A, the color is too bright in monitor A.

thanks for the info. you helped me out a LOT. F the haters. Keep doing what you're doing, it's appreciated.

Can you make a cheaper ips monitor have a higher srgb/Adobe rgb by doing this? Or will it just make your 72% color gamut monitor a little more accurate?

Great video. I was wondering if you had any links to profiles for a Toshiba Tecra Z500_C Laptop. I have looked thoroughly without any success.

half way through my calibration night light turned on on my PC. I was VERY confused as to why my colors suddenly looked so off

yay, I can see linus after calibrating. thx linus.

Is there any screen calibrator hardware with a whole display surface. or software with multiple testing areas? For example if i want to calibrate more than a spot in a middle. I mean if the middle is 1000% accurate but the sode is 20%-off, just an example can i calibrate somehow to be less accurate in one spot, but more accurate over all. When you buy a factory calibrated, they using the same method? Because i tested an expensive samsung 1080p 100% srgb factory calibrated with an expensive tester from a work place and it was 2% off and i was thinking if the factory calibratin gives an over all calibration to the best average accuracy, isthere a sutch thing, or i am over complicating things? But i think it should be :D

i found that spyder 5 express and displaycal combined work amazing together and you can adjust gamma and white and black levels with it

finally!! a video like this :)

Hi past Linus, keep up the good work!

Just don't try this on your xbox or you might discover that it has broken RGB levels

awesome, thanks!

i still use an ancient spyderexpress 2 calibrator, is it necessary to change an old calibrator if it ain't broke?

Please do "How to calibrate your White House" for the Donald.

Worth noting that windows colour profiles are ignored by most games when in the normal full screen mode

My asus rog xg279q monitors red/orange colors are over saturated. If I decrease red and green or just red, whites look bad. There are baked in color settings called game visuals. I set mine on user mode and when I set it to sRGB the oranges look less over saturated but its not vibrant and bright as user mode and I cant adjust the color and brightness settings on sRGB. Also sRGB looks wayy to warm for me. Asus whyyyyyyyy!!

Hi I did my desktop callibration for the first time and after doing it. Almost after 30 sec the whole screen got black. Nothing was visible although system was running. Restarted my pc but same issue. Help me.

I tried the Colour profile thing and WOW! its looks 10X better.

can you make a quickie about the intel ME feature? I cant understand what it is

My monitor is Dell 28" 4K, model is S2817Q, i haven't found it in the list of monitor's color profiles.

how to Calibrate laptop display? does this method also works for laptop display or is there any other method?

i'm all fine, until i run a game and it reset all the calibration settings.. what do i do in this case? it seems like i cannot interfere with DirectX settings..

I remember when I first turned on my computer, it looked like everything used water paints for the colors on videos

Would this work with a 6 year old monitor? lulz can't find any color profiles for Samsung SyncMaster BX2335

Just did this on my Asus MG279Q, color and brightness were very good out of the box(blue light filter is an eye saver for late night viewing). I never bothered to calibrate the color, after doing this I have to say that my monitor looks even better now. The changes aren't night and day, but they're definitely noticeable. Now Linus doesn't look like he got a spray tan =P

Recently bought a rather old Spyder 3 for $50 on eBay as I wasn't satisfied with the colors of my DP2710 when OC'd to 100hz. Colors looked kind of dull in comparison to other monitors. Took a while to get a decent calibration (Spyder3 is OLD), but holy shit did that help. Colors feel deeper, a green tint I didn't know existed got corrected and colors actually feel natural now. Can definitely recommend, especially for older/non-super-expensive monitors/TVs and when watching movies.

LOL at the talking spray tan.... I can't be the only one that got the reference ;)

I'm wondering if the 'Cheap korean curved ultrawide" monitor you reviewed (watch?v=0vvdvjralvs) could benefit from this as one of the major downside you had with it was the poor color it was displaying ?

So if I buy a laptop with a factory color gamut of 69% can it be improved if I calibrate it?

You can really see the exhaustion in Linus' eyes in this

Just a heads up to those who dont know, there are packs you can download tailored for specefic monitors that will get you pretty on point.

finaly. a solution for my TV problems colour profiles instalation guide is for nvidia cards and i have a radeon. GOD DAMMIT LINUS.

Good thing that many monitor come factory calibrated. The one I have is supposed to be calibrated individually and I can't complain so far.

Can the calibration hardware Linus mentions be used to calibrate TV's also?

Can I calibrate a TN monitor? Just bought this Asus Vg24 something lol I forgot the model number. Still I need help with it, looks like shit when playing battle field one.

Can I use Hardware calibrator to calibrate my quantom dot display?

So when you calibrate are you supposed to use the software form your computer or those buttons on your monitor? I personally can’t even change the brightness from my computer, I have to use the monitors buttons. I have a laptop that I connect vie DisplayPort to an Acer Predator XB321HK if that matters. (Having trouble finding colour profiles for it as well)