Hello everybody!
Usually, people buy a large and quality monitor for comfortable work with their computer.
But in most cases, they just connect it to the system unit, without thinking that it
can be adjusted for their personal needs to improve the picture quality and reveal its
hidden potential.
You may have noticed that after some time time, you develop headache, your eyes feel
sore and the work process becomes a true ordeal.
In today’s video, I’ll show you the roots of this problem and how it can be solved by
calibrating and adjusting the display to suit your
eyes best.
This can be done on all version of Windows, and I’ll show it on Windows 11.
Display settings / HDR For starters, open Windows settings and find
display settings.
Before you can change them turn off the Night Light.
If your monitor supports HDR, you don’t have to use this tutorial, because if HDR
is turned on, your computer will adjust things immediately.
But if your monitor doesn’t support HDR, you should continue.
Display color calibration Click on the Start menu and type “Calibrate
display color.”
Here’s an important note!
If you want to calibrate the display correctly, you should be sitting right in front of it
- like you do when work with your computer every day.
This window will appear.
As you can see, here are some hints - the steps for correct calibration.
If you are using several monitors at the same time, drag this window to the monitor you
want to calibrate and click Next (you can find this button in the bottom right corner).
To start work and configure main color settings, press the Menu button.
Usually, this button can be found on the lower panel of your monitor: in my case, it is on
the right side of the lower panel.
Have a look into the user manual supplied with your monitor to learn the location of
specific buttons and what they do.
Get all settings to factory default values and click Next to continue in the calibration
window.
Color gamma You will be suggested to adjust gamma so it
looks like the example in the middle.
Click Next, and adjust the slider so that the dots will
become barely visible.
For illustration, I’ll show you a gamma which is too low and a gamma which is too
high.
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Brightness and contrast adjustment Let’s move on to the next step - adjusting
brightness and contrast.
You’ll need the display settings which I have mentioned a bit earlier.
If you’re happy with the default brightness level, you can click “Skip brightness and
contrast adjustment.”
Change the display settings like in this picture, and try to make the X letter barely visible,
but avoid merging the jacket and the dark background.
Contrast adjustment means a comparison between dark and very light areas of an image.
Adjust the settings in the next page so that wrinkles and buttons on the shirt are visible.
Color balance adjustment The next stage is adjusting the proper color
balance by setting the right shade of gray.
Get the shade you prefer.
Previous calibration / Current calibration Now the operating system suggests comparing
the changes you have made to the display settings.
You are prompted to click on either button: Previous calibration or Current calibration.
If you’re satisfied with the adjustment results, click Finish and the settings will
be applied.
How to restore factory display settings To revert all settings to their default values,
click Cancel.
Remember that the settings you changed using the monitor buttons will not be restored,
so if you want to change them again, you have to do it manually.
If you don’t remember what settings your monitor had, most likely they were factory
defaults.
To get back to them, use the feature available in all monitors: look through the menu and
find the Reset option.
Text adjustment (ClearType) Finally, the last step - text adjustment.
Please note that the calibration menu has this option “Start ClearType Tuner” - this
is actually the tool to adjust how the monitor displays text.
Check the box next to the option “Turn on ClearType” (and I recommend doing that)
- or uncheck it, if you find it unnecessary.
So, check the box for ClearType and click Finish.
Choose a picture where the text is the best to read and click Finish.
The settings have been applied.
To disable the ClearType feature, type its name - “ClearType” - in the Windows search
field, start this tool and disable it by unchecking the box.
As you can see, the text display quality changes immediately.
Display calibration failure If you encounter a display calibration failure
for some unknown reason, and you can’t restore it back to normal, reinstalling the graphics
driver can be a solution you need.
We have a detailed video tutorial about downloading and installing a graphics driver in our channel
- so follow the link in the description (https://youtu.be/us65Z9EsOyg).
Conclusions As we have seen today, the factory default
calibration is not always the best and may not suite a particular user’s eyes.
Everyone’s got different eyesight peculiarities, and your environment conditions can be unique.
Display calibration is quite an easy thing to do, and sometimes it is advisable to adjust
your monitor for better user experience.
That is all for now.
Hopefully, this video was useful.
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See you again in another video.