Monitors Proper colour config for new monitor

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nikhileshmurthy

Disciple
Hi All,
I bought new Dell monitor (E178wfp). I want to know what are the ideal RGB settings for it? Tried some combo's from friends...but they all have 21inch monitors. Colours looking good, but could be better.

anyone with the same model????? Help.
 
As long as your monitor gamma is set to 2.2, you'll be fine under most conditions. Calibration is available online at multiple places, it's a just a bar from black to white with a few shades in between, you've to adjust the brightness and contrast till you can see all the gradations. In general a better monitor will show a deep black and a bright white along the length of the bar, whereas poorer ones will wash out both ends.

Be sure you can see all the boxes, that's more critical than the two ends. Depending on your monitor, you may need to tilt the colour balance towards cool or warm manually (almost all monitors have adjustments to allow you to do this) - Adobe Photoshop's calibration tools help you to do this in a few steps. If you don't have Photoshop, you should be able to adjust it yourself anyway - the grey parts of the calibration bar should be grey, not cooler (bluish) or warmer (reddish).

Once you calibrate the colours, you should be set up correctly for print work. For more saturated colours and deeper blacks (desktop use) reducing the brightness and increasing contrast works, and for seeing more detail in dark (gaming) areas higher brightness works. You could use the monitor or the graphics card software to set up the default settings and a couple of profiles for other usage.

Here's an example of such a bar: http://a.img-dpreview.com/images/grayscale.gif
 
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