You basically have to go through five screens and choose which text looks best to you. This is another short wizard that will make sure the text is appearing crisply and clearly on your monitor. I would also leave the ClearType Tuner box checked before clicking Finish. You will now be able to click on Preview and Current to see the difference between the what you had before and what it looks like now. Once you finish this, the calibration is complete. In newer monitors, this is taken care of and if you try to adjust the sliders, the monitor will just reset to the default values, so you can just skip this part if that is happening to you. Here you want to make sure all the bars are grey and that there are no other colors present.

The next screen will help you adjust the color balance. For contrast, you want to set it to the highest value possible before the buttons on the shirt start to disappear. Again, adjust the setting on your monitor. You can skip brightness and contrast for laptop screens. In my case, I had to adjust the gamma value from this on-screen menu because it wouldn’t let me change it using the slider in Windows.Īfter gamma, you will need to adjust the brightness in order to distinguish the shirt from the suit and have the X barely visible in the background. You just use the program to make sure it looks like the image that is considered good.įor example, here is a picture of my Acer monitor and the on-screen settings that can be adjusted. Most of these settings you have to change via the monitor on-screen menu itself and not using the program (unless you’re calibrating a laptop display). Note that when you try to adjust the slider in the Windows program, the monitor may reset to its own default settings. It also shows you the too high and too low settings so you can clearly see when you’ve adjusted too much. Basically, for all the steps, you’ll need to match the screen to the center image, which is considered the best setting. If you’re using a laptop, just go through each step.Ĭlick Next and you’ll have to adjust the gamma setting first. In my case, I just reset the whole monitor to factory settings because I wasn’t sure what settings I had already changed. The first thing it asks you to do is to open the menu for your display and reset the color settings to factory default.

Go ahead and click on Next to start the first step. This will start the Display Color Calibration wizard. You can also get there by going to Control Panel, clicking on Display and then clicking on Calibrate Color in the left hand menu. To start the calibration wizard in Windows, click on Start and type in calibrate.

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