[pyro-manic]

Can any of you techie-people recommend a tool/way to calibrate my monitor? Google gives me a stack of hits, but I don't know where to start...

Cheers,

pyro

[CP5670]

If you're serious about it, you have to buy a colorimeter and calibration software, which together is generally about $200. I'm not all that familiar with how those work. Otherwise, you could give this or this a try, which were given by Google and would tell you roughly what gamma settings to use.

[Nix]

If you own a Samsung monitor, they furnish a nice utility to adjust everything for your monitor, that it allows that is.  Also has a pretty basic color calibrator.  But, only if you own a Samsung monitor.  I dont think it matters if it's an LCD or CRT though.

[kasperl]

Just play around with the drivers while holding a sheet of white paper next to the screen, and compare.

That's pretty much the best you can do without a spectrophotometer, AFAIK.

[Darkage]

If you realy want to calibrate your monitor then you need special equipment and open up the monitor to do all the needed adjustments.

We do it allot at work aint it can be a pain to get it back to factory settings or atleast decent settings depending on the age of the tube.

[pyro-manic]

Humm. I wasn't looking for anything as complex as that, just a way to set up gamma etc. correctly. I don't really know what I'm doing, I just wanted to make sure it looked pretty much as it was supposed to (the monitor is well over three years old now, so I thought it might need adjusting). Perhaps calibrate was the wrong word to use (technical term??).

CP - I tried that first link, and it asked me to click the shade of colour (black, white, red, green, blue) that best merged with a background pattern. And nothing else. It just said "congratulations, your monitor is now set up correctly" when I hadn't actually done anything. Am I missing something very obvious, or what?

Thanks guys.

[phatosealpha]

If you're running an nVidia card, there should be something called the display optimization wizard in the tools sections of the control panel applet.  That should do it.

[CP5670]

CP - I tried that first link, and it asked me to click the shade of colour (black, white, red, green, blue) that best merged with a background pattern. And nothing else. It just said "congratulations, your monitor is now set up correctly" when I hadn't actually done anything. Am I missing something very obvious, or what?

I think you need some gamma correction utility to use those color comparison things it gives you. I didn't actually try it out (and don't know exactly how it works), just put up the first few things Google came up with that looked decent.

If you're running an nVidia card, there should be something called the display optimization wizard in the tools sections of the control panel applet.  That should do it.

That's the thing I used. It does an okay job.

[Darkage]

Humm. I wasn't looking for anything as complex as that, just a way to set up gamma etc. correctly. I don't really know what I'm doing, I just wanted to make sure it looked pretty much as it was supposed to (the monitor is well over three years old now, so I thought it might need adjusting). Perhaps calibrate was the wrong word to use (technical term??).

Thanks guys.

Does it look different then 3 years ago? i mean is grey still grey on a grayscale image? or has it degraded.
If not i shouldn't bother with adjusting it software wise or adjusting it at all:)

[DaBrain]

I'm using the "EyeOne" to calibrate my TFT. It's pretty simple, but I don't think you want to spend this much money. GretagMacbeth also has some free tools to calibrate your monitor. I suggest you take a lookt at them.



My TFT is crap already, but the color profile is perfect.

[WMCoolmon]

I used the NVIDIA calibration thingy.