I am trying to calibrate my monitor to make it more pleasant to use, on a daily basis. I have this monitor. I have currently set its brightness to about 100, and its contrast to about 40. I have also calibrated its gamma with windows color calibration. Is there anything else i can do, to make it more pleasant for my eyes?
Last edited by Cerawy; 15 May 2022 at 19:03.
The only calibration I know of is for photo editing. That's for color accuracy, not to make the view more "pleasant".
The tool for that would be a colorimeter. Typical ones are the Colorchecker Display models from calibrite.com (formerly X-Rite i1Display models), or the SpyderX models from datacolor.com.
If you don't wish to make any expense, I'm not sure what to suggest. Do you have the .icm file for your monitor installed, and active in the Color Management control panel? (The .icm file is part of the monitor "driver" package.)
Can it even be made better, anyway? Test the monitor on another device that's got a different video card/chip, and test your device with another monitor ... what you've got now may just be the nature of the beast.
EDIT : Which drivers are installed - Windows default or proprietary?
Well not really, im using windows own color calibration program to adjust the gamma, as well as the display menu on my monitor, to adjust the contrast and brightness.
I don't think i have any drivers installed for my monitor, what's the benefit of installing them? Also, i had a look on the manufacturers website, and the only display drivers i could find were made for windows 8.
As hinted at by @bobkn, you often get additional control panel software to make adjustments.
Additionally, I had one instance where proprietary drivers naturally/natively automatically improved the quality of the display (a HP laptop; interestingly though, I didn't need the HP drivers after I clean installed Win 11)
Oops. I'd forgotten about the Windows color calibration utility. I have not used it in a long time.
The monitor drivers give you 2 things. One is to identify the monitor to Windows. I'm not sure if all the monitor capabilities would be recognized if all that Windows sees is a generic PnP monitor. Another is to have an icm (color) profile installed for the monitor. (You may have to set Color Management to use it.) It's about color accuracy, not how "pleasant" the view is.
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