PC Peripherals Custom color settings for Dell U2410?

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I've always used the sRGB color settings for the Dell U2410, since for me it put the least strain on the eyes. Everything else just seemed off. However I've always wondered whether I'm using the monitor to it's fullest potential. I've never tried the custom color settings till now.

If anyone is using custom color settings with your Dell U2410, can you please share the exact settings that you are using?

Tagging @Gannu here. IIRC you use a Dell U2410 monitor.
 
I am using the U2407WFP - its great grandpa. :P

Never meddled with the color settings. I just reduce the brightness to 10 while gaming or 0 while reading.
 
kvikram said:
I always keep the brightness at 0. Minimum brightness is too darn high - should be far lower than it is. :android:
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Haha indeed. Just a matter of the eyes adapting to it IMO.

For custom color profiles, I am sure [H] forum may have a thread or two relating to it. Do a search. :)
 
How are you calibrating the monitor?

Remember that standard Windows colour space is RGB not sRGB so colours will always be 'off' in that mode. This is specially true of reds, which will take on an orange hue when converted from RGB to sRGB.

Now, you have to get the white point and grey tint correct, and once you do that your monitor should automatically display colour accurately, for the most part. This is actually pretty simple to to with standard monitor test patterns, we try for the maximum number of greys before merging to white or black, and then a flat grey tone that is neither warm nor cool. The former is achieved through brightness and contrast controls, the latter through custom colour controls. It is important to first set the white point correctly before attempting to get the colour tone right.

If you are unable to set white point correctly using the monitor controls, do not be afraid to use the graphic card controls to reduce the brightness. It never hurts.
 
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@cranky Thanks for the advice. Actually I'm currently using the sRGB color scheme. The colors overall seem pretty accurate (red looks red) but also a little bit dull. Setting the monitor to the standard color scheme makes the colors too vivid, especially red. The brightness is set to 0 and contrast to 43, which I'm comfortable with for normal viewing. I think I calibrated it once to get these settings. Brightness and contrast seem to be right.

Since sRGB looks dull and Standard looks too vivid, I was hoping to achieve something in the middle with custom color settings. But there are too many of them that I don't understand. They are Gain, Offset, Hue and Saturation, with individual color settings for each of them (R,G,B,C,M,Y).

Also, I read somewhere that the U2410 is a wide color gamut monitor. But sRGB doesn't make full use of the wide color gamut.

Will mess around with graphics card settings as well.
 
I mostly use my 2208wfp for wastching movies/tv shows apart from regular computer stuff and extensively tried everything i could in the settings. but sRGB had the most natural colours so i've stuck with that for years now. flesh tones have to look right for me, and sRGB does the trick.
 
@Julian Hmm I have the same opinion. BTW I tried the monitor on a Mac mini and Adobe RGB just looks perfect on the Mac. On Windows the reds would be oversaturated on Adobe RGB, but on Mac it's just right - strange. Compared to this, sRGB still looks duller on both operating systems.
 
@6pack Thanks! That article is a bit confusing though - it seems more to deal with photography than with screen calibration. And I'm not sure what the difference is between setting an sRGB color space on my monitor (hardware side) and setting an sRGB color space on my computer itself (software side).

Anyway, I'm really satisfied with the color on the Mac with Adobe RGB on the monitor and a "Generic RGB profile" in the color settings on the Mac. As for Windows, I'll try loading the ICC profiles and report back.
 
The gist of the article was not to mess with the default calibration settings on monitor if you don't know what you're doing.

In your case you set adobe rgb as default in Mac, thinking it will give better results when in fact it may not be true. Most monitors even the ips ones are set to srgb mode since they will perform 100% in that mode. That means you don't need to do any thing extra except set brightness & contrast and gamma to get your monitor calibrated. In srgb mode, everything will look like it was intended to. From games to movies, websites etc. All these things like movies are already calibrated to srgb or by.709 HDTV profile by their manufacturer.

So by setting your monitor to use adobe rgb you're adding an additional step of conversion from srgb to adobe color space which leads to loss in info. And like Ken said in his article, not many people or even companies today use adobe rgb. It was made for print production only. Using it in day to day scenarios for watching movies, gaming etc is not recommended because it was not intended for those purposes. In fact, it will make whatever you're watching look horrible after sometime. Colors will look faded and washed out when they're not supposed to. Also to use adobe rgb you need a spectrometer or hardware device to calibrate your monitor properly. Just installing it won't help.

If you really want to just make your monitor perform at its optimum, you need to only follow crankys 's advice. Also in windows don't use window's default calibration control. It messes with gamma point a lot. Use www.calibrize.com/calibrize or www.prad.de/en/monitore/testsoftware/pixperan.htmlpixerpan to set gamma properly.
 
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