Excellent tutorial with no BS or attempt to sell something. The salient point here is that when we finish (for example) scanning negs or creating pictures on our PCs or Macs then its most likely that we are going to save/view them on smartphones & tablets and the like, more so than printing them. - So what we want to end up doing is match our work in progress with the finished device. - Hence initially calibrating the computer display to match the phone is ideal. I'll hang my phone over my monitor and try to match the colours. Thanks Pavel.
Or you could just calibrate it to sRGB and you won't have to match from a phone each time. And you should also recalibrate the display every few months.
Yeah, but the issue is visual perception, despite the profile a device uses. Two devices my have both sRGB set up, but the will look totally different. That’s the main problem that I am trying to solve in this video.
Oh my lord, this totally worked. After 3 freaking years, all three of my monitors are finally calibrated and synced. Thank you so much. BTW, to anybody wondering, the video I used for the calibration was titled *"Pixel Refresh - RGB Color Test (4K)"* on RUclips.
Bam. sure enough, took me about 15 mins but now I'm all good to go! Thank you! For weeks I was creating these beautiful videos on the computer, then get to my phone and they were dark and muddy! Thank you!
200 IQ play. I’ve known all of these things separately, but never applied put them together for such an easy but brilliant novel idea. Seriously, hats off to you sir. I get that while it may not be as scientific as an actual colorimeter it gets you 90% there for no money.
This is the technique I've been using for 15 years, the difference is that I don't use my phone as a parameter, but my CRT monitor. But the concept is the same, use the best image reference you have for calibrate your new monitor or TV, but in my case, in addition to the reference, I also take advantage of the new advantages and advanced adjustments present in the device to get the most out of the Monitor or TV.
I did this method with my monitor and TVs. I remember seeing that my XS Max has nearly perfect color accuracy, and I figured I could just tweak the settings on my TVs and monitor until they matched the phone. Took a couple hours of fine tuning, but I think I got it pretty close. Obviously it’s not as accurate or fine tuned as if I used costly equipment, but it’s close enough that I can’t really distinguish between my phone’s screen and my other screens, besides the fact that the phone is an OLED.
I've been battling with this for a very long, I us TV as a monitor and this helped me, it took longer than 15 mins but I'm satisfied with the little improvement Thanks a bunch!
This video helped me so much! I messed with my new monitor for days and I'm pretty much clueless when it comes to calibrating displays. I have a Samsung S21 and I think I've got my monitor looking better than my phone now lol!
Thank you so so much for making this video! I didn't realize that my phone was in saturation mode which explains why all my photos and videos were heavily saturated and just terrible, it even made me think that I wasn't a good content creator for a long while, I thought I was going crazy, but now that I have found your video I feel a whole lot better now... And everything is great. HUGE THANK YOU💯💯💯💯❤😄
what do you mean by 'saturation mode'? I'm facing the same problem, the photos that I edit on my PC in photoshop looks so oversaturated and contrasty when I see them in my phone
I've actually done this before figuring my OLED phone would be a better reference, using the SMPTE. I don't know if that's the proper purpose but it did make a cheap TV look somewhat respectable. Great video/resource.
bro you are BRILLIANT and this helped me so much with my new OLED, which I was so happy with, but the "brown-ness" of the whites was killing me. so I used your technique and now it matches my second monitor (regular LED) so im not constantly "aware of it" and EVERYTHING looks so much better. With my phone as a guide, I have red at 98, blue at 100 and green at 97 ... this is exactly what I needed. you are a genius.
I settuped many monitors on past 4 years and what i learned on all my experience was: start on black levels. They can pump all colors when well colored. Another big tip: look the monitor with high brightness on its range, if an 24 inch and 27 inch has same level of cd/m2, the 27 will be wrost option, search for an 27 with higher levels. Blue low mode or nocturne mode on windows helps because blue color dont show depth, if you lower it the red and green wins more contrast and they show more depth. Always start on black levels and on final if you are uncertain of all setup you have done, select what you want because on final its all what you want. I always choose the brighter gamma because the brighter gamma shows more of grey levels.
🧐 I remember helping a new photo editor calibrate his iMac. (He was going to be manipulating my photos so I wanted it to be as close as possible!) Turns out, to my trained eye (I was a custom photo printer for a decade or so), the color & gamma was already perfect (enough)! 😃 To use your method, we have to start with a known good reference. Perhaps many of the portable devices we use are perfect (enough)! 😅
I was a bit annoyed by color difference between 3 monitors (EIZO, DELL, BENQ). Just adjusted them with this method using my iPhone 12... and now they are waaaay better color aligned!! Thank you for the great tip!!
This was my actual technique since I can't get the calibration tools. And I actually land almost on point in color accuracy while calibrating my monitor. But I'll soon get a calibration tool when I can find one for original price in my region.
This trick can be used to improve color accuracy on not only monitors but also TVs and Capture Cards! As long as you have at least one decent display to use as reference, no matter the size, comparing some images and just eyeballing the settings always yields incredible results, to a point where just a good calibration can make much cheaper panels look like much more expensive ones to all but the most trained eyes. I used this trick on an Elgato HD60 from ages ago that has pretty horrendous default color-accuracy, but after calibrating my displays and then setting up a reference image passing through the capture device, I was able to get extremely close to correct colors out of it. Another tip, if you find it's difficult to get stuff to match (more common on worse panels) try lowering the backlight/brightness! Seriously, sometimes the backlight on things just blows colors out too much and it results in a worse quality image, and makes it harder to get more accurate colors. Also, sometimes getting a second opinion from another person helps too if you aren't super sure how good a job you have done.
I never really thinked about the fact, that I can change my monitor colors based on my *color accurate* phone. Thank you very much! it turned out great :D
Thank you, I have been suffering for years with my monitor looking off as I'm more used to my AMOLED screen of my S20 FE 5G. Now, finally they look comparable though not as good as my phone, it's much better for consuming content now as I watches anime and movies on my desktop.
YES! this definitely helped me get the monitor to be the color correction for the moment I do plan to buy a new monitor soon but I needed to get it calibrated to finish this job I'm doing thank you so much for this
I have been calibrating monitors with my iPhone 13 pro max and I’ll tell you it’s better than nothing. My 13 pro max is almost perfect in calibration (leans towards green in some of the grays) but other than that it’s nearly perfect. I can confirm this with a monitor calibrated at 65d for sRGB (out of the factory) with
I was litteraly so mad that my art on iphone wasn't near as good as the edits on pc but thanks for your video now my monitor isn't playing tricks on my work !!
Thanks for the help! I think I managed to get my monitors looking a lot better. One seems to be a tiny bit more vibrant, but I think that's just the nature of having both a TN and IPS panel.
I tried the color test patterns and adjusted brightness, contrast and tint on my 13 year old samsung lcd tv😂 It never looked so good in past 13 years😃 I will try your method as well. (Its just a old tv so high end color accuracy is not required)
Another way that works really well, is to turn the saturation down to 0 then calibrate the colour (not tint) of the screen to look perfectly black and white (no blue, green or orange colour tone). I find it helps to look away for a few moments occasionally as your eyes can get used to a slight tint. The warmth setting, if you have one, should be set to normal, not cool or warm. Run through each RGB option a few times until the colour seems off when any option is pushed a couple ticks higher or lower. I usually just pause a movie and check it on a couple scenes with different colours and brightnesses. Put your saturation back up and your screen should be perfectly colour calibrated for your eyes and the lighting of your room.
@@PavelSupanenka give it a go! I find it gives very consistent results. Also makes re-calibrating a doddle as you usually only need to tweak it slightly to get it right again and you can clearly see right away what level is too high/low.
@@PavelSupanenka Haha 7 months later and you remembered! Works a treat doesn't it? I really find it the simplest way without any additional tools. It's also super satisfying when you turn that saturation back up and see that it's spot on. I don't think this is a very well known technique, can't remember if it's something I figured out on my own years ago or that I learnt from somewhere, but I never see anyone else talk about it.
Great video! Does the phone’s brightness has to be set on max? Would it be better to calibrate through monitor’s setting or graphics card’s control panel?
Hey, thanks. Well, it depends on the lighting conditions where you are. Try to avoid minimums and maximums. Better to have slightly above the middle value in normal lighting conditions. Calibration should be done using your monitor's control panel. Graphics card settings may be perfect, but they will not help if monitor is set up wrong.
That's an interesting idea. I recently connected my Tecra A11 S3540 laptop to my AW3420DW via Mini DP 1.1 to Displayport cable which to my surprise managed to drive 3440x1440 59.97Hz on Linux Mint on Nvidia's 340 driver. I opened up 2 Blender windows and dragged one to the big screen and the colors were so beautiful compared to my screen, I mean my laptop was pretty much accurate for a 6 bit TN panel but 8 bit Nano IPS is so amazing to look at... I should reference this!
i was used this methods to calibrate my aoc monitor with ips panel to make it work same with my lenovo g10 25 TN panel.. its took me an hour to set it with nvidia color setting.. being honest i never use that monitor color setting just because the buttons isn't friendly enough... i hope the newer monitor in future can let us use do some tweaks with external apps on our windows pc..
I wish I had thought of doing this a lot sooner instead of my normal method of doing all my edits then checking them on my iPad for a final color and brightness check since my pics are normal used/viewed on electronic devices
This is great. You just saved me $200. I did not even know my S9 plus phone has AMOLED Photo mode. In my macbook pro, I first ran built-in color calibrator which did not give good result. Then I opened same image in both my phone and MAC to pick a profile that closely matches the phone display. Subbed to say thanks. PS: Had to turn off night filter on both.
I have a S3422DWG from Dell I let everything on default and used a 4k video to compare with my iphone 12, I cant found differences between them, I think I did a good purchase, great content btw!
I totally would have never thought to try this. Thank you so much for the great information. I'll report back once I get the chance to play with the settings on my monitor a bit.
Thx a lot, this is the best and most usefull video on this subject, everybody always try to sell you something, but you actualy gave advice that helps people. I'm realy glad I came a cross your video after just an hour or so of reaserch. You saved me a huge amount of time. Thx again my friend.
This satisfied me. This monitor (TV) cannot adjust R G and B seperately but I was able to choose the best of three picture modes and to compare with my iPhone 8Plus and feel pretty good about my Rec709 work at my level. iPhone reference is cool. Thanks. Xo
Everytime I get a new monitor a consider getting a colorimeter.. then I remember that there's such a wide variety of phones with differing screen quality that its pointless. I just adjust the rgb values manually like what you've done but in reverse because my monitor colors are definitely more accurate than my phone. As for monitor to monitor, I can never get my 2 monitors to be the same, there's just too many factors that affect it. Perhaps I could if I bought a colorimeter but I can't justify the cost right now especially considering most people would be looking at my photos on uncalibrated phone screens.
Thanks so much Pavel, this is such a smart but simple approach. I was on the verge of buying a colorimeter or photo and video work but I think this will get me as close as I need to be. One question though - what should I set my phone's brightness to? I assume this will affect the phone as a refference? I have an iPhone 13.
Glad you find it useful 😊 Well, I do not think brightness anyhow influences the color itself. However if your room is not too bright, probably 80% of brightness will be more than enough.
I bought 27" factory pre calibrated philips monitor for $170 and it matches my xiaomi mi a3 oled screen that is very accurate. 3 years later color never changed on my monitor it is still the same as on my phone with oled screen that have perfect 6500k white point :)
The question is: for contrast, brightness and RGB - do you begin with them all of the way up, 50%, or all of the way down - and adjust from there. Depending on the starting ratio of these, then a different outcome in monitor settings will occur.
Very useful video, I was looking for an app, but I'd definitely try this out first. Dipping my toes in video editing soon and I don't want to burn a hole in my pocket buying stuff. I'll follow up to let you know how it worked out for me.
So you're not really calibrating the phone or the monitor; this is simply "calibrating" or color matching your monitor to what you see on your phone, I think we may be using the term calibration wrong. I need to calibrate my monitor so when I send my digital image file for print, the print will look like what I see on my monitor when the prints come back to me.
Solid Video, excellent results. I can't make mine perfect as I don't believe my display is 100% rgb and instead has a slight tan colour added and I can't do anything really with that added redness. But great video. I'm monitor shopping now too.
Actaully never thought of that, thanks! But it still makes me wonder why monitors and TVs don't appear to be the most accurate out of the box, requiring a lot of tweaking. While phones are typically perfect without needing to change anything. Like my phone screen looks way better than any of the TVs or monitors in my house, why are phone screens so good lol.
Probably because it it easier to calibrate a small phone than a screen at the factory. Apart from that screen technology for small devices is different (more accurate and expensive).
For Samsung users out there: The default Vivid mode uses a very wide colour gamut and It's far too saturated wehn it comes to srgb content. Natural mode is more accurate
Great, happen to have a iphone around so i'm in luck. Thanks mate. And yes this video looks really good color wise. One question though (a silly one perhaps). Screen brightness should be the same setting for the monitor and iphone right? Or is that also different?
@@PavelSupanenka Okay, i'll be sure to set them at the same brightness. Thanks for the quick response! :) I have some design work coming up and the color thing has been a nagging worry for a while now. Glad I found your video!
@@PavelSupanenka Hi I have a question about this: do you mean turning the brightness at the highest on both the monitor and phone? But that maximum brightness will hurt my eyes if I need to stare at the monitor for a long time. Or is it ok to turn down the brightness after the calibration? Thanks in advance!
@@therealgeorgiadacosta9320 Hey. 100% I have only on monitor. On my phone no - it should be a little bit above middle value in normal lighting conditions.
You've basically mimicked what was the go-to advice many years ago, which is to make the colour space of your images match sRGB which was widely adopted by Windows and many monitor and display manufacturers. The reason why things don't match as well now is because every device is using it's own colour space and they are usually much larger than the old sRGB standard. The problem with doing it this way is that you are dumbing down the fantastic wide gamut colours that the new monitors are capable of displaying to the smaller sRGB space of yesteryear. The better option, so that you have the best of both worlds (bright vivid colours for gaming and apps that benefit from it, as well as colour accuracy when you need it) is to calibrate your monitor with a calibration device which will create the monitor profile that will allow you manage and convert colours properly. You can still display all the widest gamuts possible on your monitor and see what colours will look like on displays that have those gamuts, but be able to both simulate and convert it down to sRGB for devices that can't display that wider gamut.
damn i wish i found this video earlier. I’ve been taking screen shots of my edits from my monitor to my iphone to test to accuracy. At least i know now. thx!
Sure thing! I was mainly using my own video here: 1) ruclips.net/video/kxXpGuzFLvs/видео.html 2) ruclips.net/video/kxXpGuzFLvs/видео.html and I think this 3) ruclips.net/video/WHbd_MjwOpc/видео.html
@@PavelSupanenka been wanting to calibrate for a while, but the process always seemed tedious for what I thought was minimal benefit. I used a picture with a parrot and noticed my yellows were incredibly dark which was making my whites look yellow as well. Wow was i wrong about minimal benefit. Everything looks so much better now when playing games and watching videos. Cheers for a practical solution!
I did this exact thing and it worked better than any colorimeter
That's incredible! 🔥
it can't
@@sentbycyberliferk800 it can:)
@@PavelSupanenka that's what you believe in Pavel :(
It helped me and thousands of people 😉
It's rare you find a video where the creator presents something both novel and useful. I commend you!
Thanks a ton, man! I was really surprised nobody has made a video about that :)
What do you mean? It took him 5 minutes to tell us to eyeball it and he didn’t even show a proper method for eyeballing it.
Make a shorter video and post it on YT. What’s the issue? 🤷🏻♂️
true.....!
Excellent tutorial with no BS or attempt to sell something.
The salient point here is that when we finish (for example) scanning negs or creating pictures on our PCs or Macs then its most likely that we are going to save/view them on smartphones & tablets and the like, more so than printing them.
- So what we want to end up doing is match our work in progress with the finished device.
- Hence initially calibrating the computer display to match the phone is ideal.
I'll hang my phone over my monitor and try to match the colours.
Thanks Pavel.
You are very welcome and thanks for your thoughts!
Or you could just calibrate it to sRGB and you won't have to match from a phone each time. And you should also recalibrate the display every few months.
To sRGB? What exactly do you mean? And how?
@@PavelSupanenka sRGB because that is the color space used on web, smartphones (they now also have DCI P3) and computer monitors.
Yeah, but the issue is visual perception, despite the profile a device uses. Two devices my have both sRGB set up, but the will look totally different. That’s the main problem that I am trying to solve in this video.
The image quality in this video is one of the best I’ve seen on RUclips. I might use your video to calibrate my monitor
Thanks a lot! Yes, this way of calibration is really dope!!!
I need help calibrating my computer :(
@@cathacarrasco6298 Did you try to follow the steps from tutorial? What exactly is an issue on your side? :)
Better image quality than Linus tech tips videos for sure
Use Pavel because he used iPhone
Oh my lord, this totally worked. After 3 freaking years, all three of my monitors are finally calibrated and synced. Thank you so much. BTW, to anybody wondering, the video I used for the calibration was titled *"Pixel Refresh - RGB Color Test (4K)"* on RUclips.
Glad to hear that!!!
Bam. sure enough, took me about 15 mins but now I'm all good to go! Thank you! For weeks I was creating these beautiful videos on the computer, then get to my phone and they were dark and muddy! Thank you!
I am so happy it worked for you as well! 🙌🏻
200 IQ play. I’ve known all of these things separately, but never applied put them together for such an easy but brilliant novel idea. Seriously, hats off to you sir. I get that while it may not be as scientific as an actual colorimeter it gets you 90% there for no money.
Thanks, Thomas 🙌🏻
the production value of this video is off the freaking roof, man!
great job
Happy to hear that, man! 🔥
Great tips! Love the idea of bringing the phone closer to make the size appear bigger
Thanks, Ben! Yeah, illusions help sometimes :)
This is the technique I've been using for 15 years, the difference is that I don't use my phone as a parameter, but my CRT monitor. But the concept is the same, use the best image reference you have for calibrate your new monitor or TV, but in my case, in addition to the reference, I also take advantage of the new advantages and advanced adjustments present in the device to get the most out of the Monitor or TV.
Yeah. Thats the best option without using a colorimeter.
Wait… CRT gives better color than modern displays??
I did this method with my monitor and TVs. I remember seeing that my XS Max has nearly perfect color accuracy, and I figured I could just tweak the settings on my TVs and monitor until they matched the phone. Took a couple hours of fine tuning, but I think I got it pretty close. Obviously it’s not as accurate or fine tuned as if I used costly equipment, but it’s close enough that I can’t really distinguish between my phone’s screen and my other screens, besides the fact that the phone is an OLED.
Awesome! Happy it worked for you as well.
Audio sounds solid my dude!
Heaven to my ears to hear that from YOU. 🙌🏻
I've been battling with this for a very long, I us TV as a monitor and this helped me, it took longer than 15 mins but I'm satisfied with the little improvement Thanks a bunch!
Happy to hear that!! 🙌🏻
This video helped me so much! I messed with my new monitor for days and I'm pretty much clueless when it comes to calibrating displays. I have a Samsung S21 and I think I've got my monitor looking better than my phone now lol!
Sounds amazing! Happy it worked for you!
Thank you so so much for making this video! I didn't realize that my phone was in saturation mode which explains why all my photos and videos were heavily saturated and just terrible, it even made me think that I wasn't a good content creator for a long while, I thought I was going crazy, but now that I have found your video I feel a whole lot better now... And everything is great. HUGE THANK YOU💯💯💯💯❤😄
Awww. Thanks a lot for your kind comment. I appreciate it ❤️
what do you mean by 'saturation mode'? I'm facing the same problem, the photos that I edit on my PC in photoshop looks so oversaturated and contrasty when I see them in my phone
@@taqitahmid4894 just reset your phone , and make a backup before, it will save you lot of stress!
I've actually done this before figuring my OLED phone would be a better reference, using the SMPTE. I don't know if that's the proper purpose but it did make a cheap TV look somewhat respectable. Great video/resource.
Thanks!
I did calibrate my smart TV with my tablet and it works!
The best calibration technique hands down!
That's amazing! Glad it was helpful.
The only practical and genuine video I have found for calibrating my monitor...THANKYOU!
You are very welcome! Thank YOU!
bro you are BRILLIANT and this helped me so much with my new OLED, which I was so happy with, but the "brown-ness" of the whites was killing me. so I used your technique and now it matches my second monitor (regular LED) so im not constantly "aware of it" and EVERYTHING looks so much better. With my phone as a guide, I have red at 98, blue at 100 and green at 97 ... this is exactly what I needed. you are a genius.
Thanks a lot for your feedback ☺️
Wow !! Thank you very much !
Btw 10 years I have been on RUclips and it's my first time commenting a video, you made me break my #1 rule ! Bravo ! ❤️
Wow. That’s incredible and touching at the same time! Thank you!
Great video! it took me a while to get my monitors adjusted but it works and the color looks solid now.
Glad it helped!
I settuped many monitors on past 4 years and what i learned on all my experience was: start on black levels. They can pump all colors when well colored. Another big tip: look the monitor with high brightness on its range, if an 24 inch and 27 inch has same level of cd/m2, the 27 will be wrost option, search for an 27 with higher levels.
Blue low mode or nocturne mode on windows helps because blue color dont show depth, if you lower it the red and green wins more contrast and they show more depth.
Always start on black levels and on final if you are uncertain of all setup you have done, select what you want because on final its all what you want.
I always choose the brighter gamma because the brighter gamma shows more of grey levels.
Wow. So mamy findings. Thanks for sharing!
🧐 I remember helping a new photo editor calibrate his iMac.
(He was going to be manipulating my photos so I wanted it to be as close as possible!)
Turns out, to my trained eye (I was a custom photo printer for a decade or so), the color & gamma was already perfect (enough)! 😃
To use your method, we have to start with a known good reference.
Perhaps many of the portable devices we use are perfect (enough)! 😅
True story!
I can't believe this really worked -- such a simple and effective solution! Thank you!!
You are very welcome 🤗
I was a bit annoyed by color difference between 3 monitors (EIZO, DELL, BENQ). Just adjusted them with this method using my iPhone 12... and now they are waaaay better color aligned!! Thank you for the great tip!!
Happy it worked for you as well! 🔥
This was my actual technique since I can't get the calibration tools. And I actually land almost on point in color accuracy while calibrating my monitor. But I'll soon get a calibration tool when I can find one for original price in my region.
Cool! Sometimes DIY is what we need 😎
This trick can be used to improve color accuracy on not only monitors but also TVs and Capture Cards! As long as you have at least one decent display to use as reference, no matter the size, comparing some images and just eyeballing the settings always yields incredible results, to a point where just a good calibration can make much cheaper panels look like much more expensive ones to all but the most trained eyes. I used this trick on an Elgato HD60 from ages ago that has pretty horrendous default color-accuracy, but after calibrating my displays and then setting up a reference image passing through the capture device, I was able to get extremely close to correct colors out of it.
Another tip, if you find it's difficult to get stuff to match (more common on worse panels) try lowering the backlight/brightness! Seriously, sometimes the backlight on things just blows colors out too much and it results in a worse quality image, and makes it harder to get more accurate colors. Also, sometimes getting a second opinion from another person helps too if you aren't super sure how good a job you have done.
Exactly 👍 there are solutions that are not obvious and they work
I never really thinked about the fact, that I can change my monitor colors based on my *color accurate* phone. Thank you very much! it turned out great :D
Happy to help!
Exactly what I needed! You saved me tons of hours of research
I am so happy to hear that 🙌🏻
Thank you, I have been suffering for years with my monitor looking off as I'm more used to my AMOLED screen of my S20 FE 5G. Now, finally they look comparable though not as good as my phone, it's much better for consuming content now as I watches anime and movies on my desktop.
Thats awesome, man!! Happy it helped a bit!!!
YES! this definitely helped me get the monitor to be the color correction for the moment I do plan to buy a new monitor soon but I needed to get it calibrated to finish this job I'm doing thank you so much for this
You are welcome!
I have been calibrating monitors with my iPhone 13 pro max and I’ll tell you it’s better than nothing. My 13 pro max is almost perfect in calibration (leans towards green in some of the grays) but other than that it’s nearly perfect. I can confirm this with a monitor calibrated at 65d for sRGB (out of the factory) with
Thanks for your feedback!
I was litteraly so mad that my art on iphone wasn't near as good as the edits on pc but thanks for your video now my monitor isn't playing tricks on my work !!
That’s awesome!!
I m so appreciated that you have a free and easy way to do this kind of difficult adjustment. Now my screen really looks better! Cheers, mate~
So happy to hear that!
Thanks for the help! I think I managed to get my monitors looking a lot better. One seems to be a tiny bit more vibrant, but I think that's just the nature of having both a TN and IPS panel.
Awesome. Happy to see it helps more and more people 🤗
I tried the color test patterns and adjusted brightness, contrast and tint on my 13 year old samsung lcd tv😂 It never looked so good in past 13 years😃 I will try your method as well. (Its just a old tv so high end color accuracy is not required)
Sure thing! Let me know how it goes, please!
Another way that works really well, is to turn the saturation down to 0 then calibrate the colour (not tint) of the screen to look perfectly black and white (no blue, green or orange colour tone). I find it helps to look away for a few moments occasionally as your eyes can get used to a slight tint.
The warmth setting, if you have one, should be set to normal, not cool or warm.
Run through each RGB option a few times until the colour seems off when any option is pushed a couple ticks higher or lower. I usually just pause a movie and check it on a couple scenes with different colours and brightnesses.
Put your saturation back up and your screen should be perfectly colour calibrated for your eyes and the lighting of your room.
Interesting approach
@@PavelSupanenka give it a go! I find it gives very consistent results. Also makes re-calibrating a doddle as you usually only need to tweak it slightly to get it right again and you can clearly see right away what level is too high/low.
Wow, thanks a lot for great instructions! It is really helpful!
@@PavelSupanenka Haha 7 months later and you remembered! Works a treat doesn't it?
I really find it the simplest way without any additional tools. It's also super satisfying when you turn that saturation back up and see that it's spot on.
I don't think this is a very well known technique, can't remember if it's something I figured out on my own years ago or that I learnt from somewhere, but I never see anyone else talk about it.
Great video! Does the phone’s brightness has to be set on max? Would it be better to calibrate through monitor’s setting or graphics card’s control panel?
Hey, thanks. Well, it depends on the lighting conditions where you are. Try to avoid minimums and maximums. Better to have slightly above the middle value in normal lighting conditions. Calibration should be done using your monitor's control panel. Graphics card settings may be perfect, but they will not help if monitor is set up wrong.
That's an interesting idea. I recently connected my Tecra A11 S3540 laptop to my AW3420DW via Mini DP 1.1 to Displayport cable which to my surprise managed to drive 3440x1440 59.97Hz on Linux Mint on Nvidia's 340 driver. I opened up 2 Blender windows and dragged one to the big screen and the colors were so beautiful compared to my screen, I mean my laptop was pretty much accurate for a 6 bit TN panel but 8 bit Nano IPS is so amazing to look at... I should reference this!
i was used this methods to calibrate my aoc monitor with ips panel to make it work same with my lenovo g10 25 TN panel.. its took me an hour to set it with nvidia color setting..
being honest i never use that monitor color setting just because the buttons isn't friendly enough...
i hope the newer monitor in future can let us use do some tweaks with external apps on our windows pc..
Hopefully in the future there will be no need to calibrate anything and all devices will have the same natural colors.
was doing this for a long time now but I didnt know that iphone 6 models have this great color accuracy!
Right? 💪🏻
I wish I had thought of doing this a lot sooner instead of my normal method of doing all my edits then checking them on my iPad for a final color and brightness check since my pics are normal used/viewed on electronic devices
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This is great. You just saved me $200. I did not even know my S9 plus phone has AMOLED Photo mode. In my macbook pro, I first ran built-in color calibrator which did not give good result. Then I opened same image in both my phone and MAC to pick a profile that closely matches the phone display. Subbed to say thanks. PS: Had to turn off night filter on both.
That’s awesome! Glad that more and more people find it helpful.
I have a S3422DWG from Dell I let everything on default and used a 4k video to compare with my iphone 12, I cant found differences between them, I think I did a good purchase, great content btw!
Thanks! Looks like both devices are perfectly calibrated! Lucky you! 🔥
On samsung phones the SRGB mode is called "basic" which is the most accurate mode for YT and general video content.
Good to know!
You’re a genius mate. Thanks!
Glad to help
Dude, thank you so much! My monitor’s colors are SO much better now. Finally, a solution for me!
Awesome!!! 🔥
Phenomenal video - going to try this!
Thanks!
Always thought this made sense, thanks for confirming. Used for photography.
Thank you ☺️
I totally would have never thought to try this. Thank you so much for the great information. I'll report back once I get the chance to play with the settings on my monitor a bit.
Awesome! Sure, let me know:)
Thx a lot, this is the best and most usefull video on this subject, everybody always try to sell you something, but you actualy gave advice that helps people.
I'm realy glad I came a cross your video after just an hour or so of reaserch. You saved me a huge amount of time.
Thx again my friend.
Wow, I feel so delightful when reading such comments. Thank YOU!
WHOA! I am SHOCKED how quick and easy that was. I just went from being super disappointed in this monitor to quite pleased. Thank you.
Happy to hear that!!!
this is such a clever way to tackle this issue, kudos!
Thank you! 🙌🏻
This satisfied me. This monitor (TV) cannot adjust R G and B seperately but I was able to choose the best of three picture modes and to compare with my iPhone 8Plus and feel pretty good about my Rec709 work at my level. iPhone reference is cool. Thanks. Xo
Glad it was helpful 💪🏼
I have never thought of this before! Thanks for the idea!
You are very welcome, Joshua!
Make sure you use an iPhone that is released less than 1/2 years old as oled display degrade over time losing color accuracy.
Interesting point!
Everytime I get a new monitor a consider getting a colorimeter.. then I remember that there's such a wide variety of phones with differing screen quality that its pointless. I just adjust the rgb values manually like what you've done but in reverse because my monitor colors are definitely more accurate than my phone.
As for monitor to monitor, I can never get my 2 monitors to be the same, there's just too many factors that affect it. Perhaps I could if I bought a colorimeter but I can't justify the cost right now especially considering most people would be looking at my photos on uncalibrated phone screens.
Fair enough 💪
Thanks so much Pavel, this is such a smart but simple approach. I was on the verge of buying a colorimeter or photo and video work but I think this will get me as close as I need to be. One question though - what should I set my phone's brightness to? I assume this will affect the phone as a refference? I have an iPhone 13.
Glad you find it useful 😊 Well, I do not think brightness anyhow influences the color itself. However if your room is not too bright, probably 80% of brightness will be more than enough.
I bought 27" factory pre calibrated philips monitor for $170 and it matches my xiaomi mi a3 oled screen that is very accurate.
3 years later color never changed on my monitor it is still the same as on my phone with oled screen that have perfect 6500k white point :)
You are lucky!
Thanks, I got a very good result matching the nvidia control panel.
Awesome!
The question is: for contrast, brightness and RGB - do you begin with them all of the way up, 50%, or all of the way down - and adjust from there. Depending on the starting ratio of these, then a different outcome in monitor settings will occur.
50% is too low. They should have default values.
Very useful video, I was looking for an app, but I'd definitely try this out first. Dipping my toes in video editing soon and I don't want to burn a hole in my pocket buying stuff. I'll follow up to let you know how it worked out for me.
Sounds great! Good luck with calibrating! 🤞🏻
Great way to do it. So obvious, yet I'd never thought of that. Thankyou
Thanks, Annie!
So you're not really calibrating the phone or the monitor; this is simply "calibrating" or color matching your monitor to what you see on your phone, I think we may be using the term calibration wrong. I need to calibrate my monitor so when I send my digital image file for print, the print will look like what I see on my monitor when the prints come back to me.
Well, assuming the phone with the colour accuracy close to perfection is correct, this is exactly what I am doing, yes.
Dude, THANK YOU 🤝🔥
Very welcome :)
This is so helpful, thanks.
You are welcome 🤗
I can definitely see big difference, thanks for the info.
You are very welcome 🤗
Great video! I did it using my poco m5s that has a oled display, and my monitor is really better
That’s great to hear!
worked for me. Maybe its time for a "next" steps simple calibration for say printing?
That would be such a relief...
Honestly the best video on this topic
Thanks a lot 😊
Fantastic trick !
Thanks😌
I'm going to try this method tomorrow thanks so much very help full
Super! 🤞🏻
MacBook Pro M1 screen on the left, external monitor on the right. Five minutes later I'm happy.
Very neat! Thanks for a helpful and informative video - I shall give your technique a try!
Sure thing, John! Good luck!
This is actually pretty cool and very helpful!! Thanks for the video! :D
Thanks, James 👍🏼
Solid Video, excellent results. I can't make mine perfect as I don't believe my display is 100% rgb and instead has a slight tan colour added and I can't do anything really with that added redness. But great video. I'm monitor shopping now too.
Probably you can play around with different profiles a little bit more and saturation…
Thanks @@PavelSupanenka
thank you, bro! that was unexpectedly useful!
Happy to hear that 🙌🏻
Actaully never thought of that, thanks! But it still makes me wonder why monitors and TVs don't appear to be the most accurate out of the box, requiring a lot of tweaking. While phones are typically perfect without needing to change anything. Like my phone screen looks way better than any of the TVs or monitors in my house, why are phone screens so good lol.
Probably because it it easier to calibrate a small phone than a screen at the factory. Apart from that screen technology for small devices is different (more accurate and expensive).
For Samsung users out there: The default Vivid mode uses a very wide colour gamut and It's far too saturated wehn it comes to srgb content. Natural mode is more accurate
Thanks! 👍
This worked like a charm! Loved it :D
Thank you!!!
Great, happen to have a iphone around so i'm in luck. Thanks mate. And yes this video looks really good color wise.
One question though (a silly one perhaps). Screen brightness should be the same setting for the monitor and iphone right? Or is that also different?
Hey! Yeah, basically screen brightness is the same setting on iPhone or monitor. I always set it to 100%.
@@PavelSupanenka Okay, i'll be sure to set them at the same brightness. Thanks for the quick response! :)
I have some design work coming up and the color thing has been a nagging worry for a while now. Glad I found your video!
@@Wimpiethe3 glad it was helpful!!
@@PavelSupanenka Hi I have a question about this: do you mean turning the brightness at the highest on both the monitor and phone? But that maximum brightness will hurt my eyes if I need to stare at the monitor for a long time. Or is it ok to turn down the brightness after the calibration? Thanks in advance!
@@therealgeorgiadacosta9320 Hey. 100% I have only on monitor. On my phone no - it should be a little bit above middle value in normal lighting conditions.
Dope! I'll have to try this, thank you!
Thanks ☺️
You've basically mimicked what was the go-to advice many years ago, which is to make the colour space of your images match sRGB which was widely adopted by Windows and many monitor and display manufacturers. The reason why things don't match as well now is because every device is using it's own colour space and they are usually much larger than the old sRGB standard.
The problem with doing it this way is that you are dumbing down the fantastic wide gamut colours that the new monitors are capable of displaying to the smaller sRGB space of yesteryear.
The better option, so that you have the best of both worlds (bright vivid colours for gaming and apps that benefit from it, as well as colour accuracy when you need it) is to calibrate your monitor with a calibration device which will create the monitor profile that will allow you manage and convert colours properly. You can still display all the widest gamuts possible on your monitor and see what colours will look like on displays that have those gamuts, but be able to both simulate and convert it down to sRGB for devices that can't display that wider gamut.
Right. But the video is about calibrating without a calibration device 🙃
Super dope video, just what I needed! Keep the great content!!
Thanks dude! 🙌🏻
Amazing video! I was having so many difficulties with the colors on my videos. Let's hope this will help :)
🔥 Awesome! 😎
I have the same monitor and thanks for tip. Let me try will be back if it's works.
That’s great! Let us know later and do not rush!
Thank you for this video. This is very useful information. Also nice production.
Thanks a ton! 🙌🏻
Thank you so much BTW, I used your own video on my phone and PC monitor. Just like you I have an Asus monitor and used sRGB mode for the longest time.
I am really glad to hear this tip helps a lot of people. Thanks for the feedback!
damn i wish i found this video earlier. I’ve been taking screen shots of my edits from my monitor to my iphone to test to accuracy. At least i know now. thx!
Glad you found this video :)
Great voice brother and just as good a video ..!!! Thank you friend !
Thanks 🙏🏻
A BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU
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Acutally good advice , thanksss!
You’re welcome 😇
what brightness my guy WHAT BRIGHTNESS
The default one
Thank you for the video! I believe I achived better and accurate colours!
Awesome! Happy to hear that 🔥
Sure, and how do we calibrate a laptop screen when the externa screen options are not available?
Not sure about laptop, but you can always try the same method with the settings you have
can you add links to videos you used to calibrate your monitor?
Sure thing! I was mainly using my own video here: 1) ruclips.net/video/kxXpGuzFLvs/видео.html 2) ruclips.net/video/kxXpGuzFLvs/видео.html and I think this 3) ruclips.net/video/WHbd_MjwOpc/видео.html
Dude! You are the man! Thank you!
You are more than welcome! 🔥
got a LG 28MQ750-C 28 and display color settings is the same as my other LG monitor and yet the former looks more saturated. Not sure what to do
Well, if there’s a saturation toggle, try to adjust it 🤷🏻♂️
great tutorial. Thank you very much
You are very welcome, Farouk!
ok this worked surprisingly well.
💪🏼 glad to hear that
@@PavelSupanenka been wanting to calibrate for a while, but the process always seemed tedious for what I thought was minimal benefit. I used a picture with a parrot and noticed my yellows were incredibly dark which was making my whites look yellow as well. Wow was i wrong about minimal benefit. Everything looks so much better now when playing games and watching videos. Cheers for a practical solution!
@@Newmans0wn thank you!!