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Last 27 August 2010
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Calibrating Your
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The following
article contains information about calibrating your screen, explaining the
target values and explaining what ICC profiles are:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/calibrating.htm
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Recommended OSD
Settings and ICC Profiles Database Caveats
This section
contains information and profiles to help calibrate your monitor and hopefully
get things looking better. Below you will find some recommended OSD settings for
various models, along with an ICC profile which has been produced, and saved,
using a hardware colorimter device. These have been collated from our various
reviews, as well as any which have been gathered from various sources and those
sent to us by readers.
There are some
very important things to consider however, so please take the following as some
caveats
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OSD settings
are recommended and related to the calibration process which produces the ICC
profile. You may or may not find them useful on their own. Combining them with
the attached ICC profile is recommended
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ICC profiles
are created using various colorimeter devices, and so quality and accuracy
will vary. Those created in our reviews are using the LaCie Blue Eye Pro
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You need to
have the same version screen as the one which generated the profile.
Manufacturers sometimes switch the panels in their screens, so bear this in
mind. Revisions of the screen may also cause differences
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Bear in mind
all these settings are related to the individual's screen, software, operating
system and PC hardware. Their relevance and effectiveness on your system may
vary
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These are
only designed to hopefully help you get your screen looking and feeling
better. They may or may not improve actual colour rendering ability in real
terms, this will vary depending on setup and reasons listed above
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Colour
accuracy, gamma, luminance and colour temperature may be improved when using
these settings and/or ICC profiles. Do not be alarmed if they do not work on
your screen and system. If they do not work, just remove the ICC profile and
restore your settings
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To achieve
truly accurate results, you would need to use a colorimeter on your own screen
and system
Basically,
don't rely on these settings and profiles working magic on your screen! They
should hopefully help improve things for many users, but performance will vary
as explained above.
Install and Activate an ICC Profile
With Windows XP
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Download and install the
Microsoft utility for color management
WinColor
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Download and save one of our ICC profiles from
above table
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Paste it into the following folder:
C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color\
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Go into control panel where you should see a
program for WinColor
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Open the 'profiles' tab and load the saved ICC
profile
Windows Vista
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Place the saved ICC profile in:
C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\color\
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Right click your desktop
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Chose 'Personalize
> display parameters > advanced parameters > color management tab
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Check 'use my parameters for this
peripheral'
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Chose 'Add', select the saved ICC
profile, and set it to default.
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Click on the 'Advanced' tab in
the peripheral profile, select the saved ICC profile, click 'OK'
Location of ICC Profiles on Other Operating
Systems
Windows 2000
C:\WINNT\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color
Mac OS X
/Library/Colorsync/Profiles (System wide)
~/Library/Colorsync/Profiles (User folder)
Further Resources
Monitor Calibration Guide
Digitalversus ICC Profile Database
Digitalversus - Do Our Calibration Profiles Work for All Monitors? (Article)
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