Display monitor calibration

[Bucic]

I've just discovered that my display has the gamma level too high by at least 15% and there doesn't seem to be any other topic dedicated to the subject so I'm starting a new one.

 

First things first (keep in mind I'm a noob with this):

- most calibration procedures recommend adjusting the contrast first, then the brightness; contrast is supposed to be left pretty much unchanged afterwards

- gamma adjustment can't be substituted by brightness and contrast adjustment

 

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php

http://www.quickgamma.de/indexen.html

 

I'm past the contrast and brightness calibration and now I'm setting the gamma down. Using the built-in windows tool for starters.

 

Warning:

Always make sure test images are displayed in 1:1 scale. Some web browsers may scale them even though you haven't used any zoom functions.

 

EDIT:

I ended up using QuickGamma but with the gamma test image downloaded from lagom.nl

Result: I had to lower the setting from 2.2 to 1.8. Quite a bit. Especially games looked washed out before. What a difference!

Edited October 3, 2015 by Bucic

[Bucic]

Sorry for the necromancy but I've found that on some systems two of pretty significant settings may be set to values potentially impairing the color reproduction or to simplify - image quality.

1. Windows

Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button The Start button

, clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution.

Click Advanced settings, and then click the Monitor tab.

Under Colors, select True Color (32 bit), and then click OK.

2. graphics card vendor control panel

It may fall back to limited color space setting.

https://pcmonitors.info/articles/correcting-hdmi-colour-on-nvidia-and-amd-gpus/