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 TH-cam.
Is anyone else just blown away on how amazing this video is structured and put together. You could have just sat in front of your camera and talked but you went the extra mile and made the video actually interesting to watch too.
So glad to see that I wasn't "crazy" when I thought about using my iPhone 13 Pro Max to compare my new monitor with when calibrating it! Also, one thing I found that really helped, was to go into Windows settings, and reduce the gamma, as I was getting the colors close, but too "washed out" :)
if the colors are washed and the monitor is on HDMI, then there is a big chance that the display driver treats it like a HDTV and is not using the full range. Check in the drivers if the output dynamic range is set to full, instead of limited (in the case of nvdia drivers)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
You just saved me $200. I’m glad I was able to use my phone as a reference to calibrate my monitor. I noticed that my Color temperature was to high on the monitor and when I dropped it to 5500k, it made the biggest difference. Thank you
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.
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 just keep thinking of how many descent affordable monitors get rusted everyday by reviewers that just didn't take the time to do a good calibration. Get the monitor, CALIBRATE it well then come up with a final conclusion. Thanks for this video, very helpful!
To some degree I'd say it's fair to review a monitor based on what it delivers out of the box as unfortunately not everyone will be savy enough to calibrate (or may think they must spend money to do so & don't wish to). However yes, it also makes sense to then calibrate it & showcase what each monitor is capable of since there are those willing & capable of calibrating their own monitors who would do well to know which monitor is worth aiming for with this in mind.
I did this years ago, but set up 3 color profiles. One to best match an iphone, one to match a Samsung Galaxy, and one right inbetween. One thing to keep in mind is the colors on your phone change over time, and its not predictable as its dependent on the colors that were displayed over the years.
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.
Also looks like you were comparing to an iPhone, you have to turn off True Tone to get a real comparison since the true tone shifts the color spectrum of the phone panel based on ambient light.
True. Thanks for additional tip. Everything that modifies default colors should be turned off. I just have an older phone model that does not have this function :)
If you're going to be producing professional content and on the Artistry side that deals photo and video editing also printing its a no brainer to get your monitor calibrated by hardware such as Spyder X. If you're an individual enthusiast this video will helped a lot.
I’m so trying this!! I just got a Huion display drawing tablet and everything is brighter than what my phone and chat was seeing! I’ll update you all of this works
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!
Great video brother! Does anyone know what brightness he is using for phone and monitor? 50%? 25% 💯 ? Brightness affects color accuracy so I’m really curious about what settings he used on the phone and monitor Please help! 🙏🏼 thank you
So I make my computer monitor look like my phone then re-edit my video (pictures in Lightroom in my case)? This video is way more helpful than other videos I watched! 😊
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.
Same here. I use the phone for the calibration of the monitor. Use black to grey to white stripes. Cmyk, rgb and whole spectrum of colours like photoshop color ramps. Because sometimes, your grey, Cmyk, rgb will be perfect but lots of in between colours will be going through BANDING and you will not have smooth gradients.
thank you so much. simple, straight to the point, and the only video that’s actually helped me. i’m a photographer switching from lightroom mobile to lightroom on pc, and my photos were very distorted before. now they are exactly the same from pc to mobile, thank you so much!
Calibrated my OLED monitor to match/make it looks similar to MacBook air M1, and damn simply reducing the saturation makes it work like charm, it looks very similar now. Thank you!
Nice trick mate! it worked for me. I was struggling with two monitors (one LG HD and Samsung 4K), neither of them was showing the correct colors. I used my iPhone 12 as the reference and calibrated them. Now both of them look perfect. (at least for my eyes :) ) Thank you so much for the video. Off to the topic, what is the microphone you used for your recording?
What.... the f*ck? Are you serious? COLOUR COVERAGE ISN'T THE SAME AS COLOUR ACCURACY. You basically matching colour your display to your phone, that's not the same having accurate colour at all. Most if not all monitor already have 100 percent and more Rec.709 coverage, that doesn't mean all of them are calibrated correctly, and in fact, even the one that are factory calibrated isn't even that accurate if you needed it for colour critical work. More importantly, every display colours shifted over time which mean even if your phone is actually calibrated to a perfection when it first came out of the factory, that doesn't mean that it will remain accurate by the time you use it as a point of reference. Colorimeter existed for a reason.
Wow, thats exactly what i did 2 weeks ago, before discovering that video. I realised most of the new phones have excelent color accuracy and just used mine for reference. Considering most of the work nowadays is viewed by a phone, i think this is the best option... Still don`t know why most of the standart color profiles on different phones are a bit yellowish, but thats the way it is i gues...
Yeah... Probably because to calibrate every single phone at the factory is a big effort. Manufacturers of cheaper phones do not want to waste their time to make the screens perfect.
Woww.... You solved my problem on my 3 different monitors. My main monitor already calibrated then adjust it back with my phone and the rest. Thanks man... 👍.
Thank you so much for this video! I was wondering why my art looked so good on my PC and then garbage on my phone. This helped me a lot to fix the colors and make them a little bit more consistent across all devices. One thing that my monitor didn't have though is adjusting each of the RGB colors individually, so I had to do it through Nvidia control panel to adjust things over there if anyone else has this problem.
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.
This video is very well produced. You really need more subscribers, so here is my subscription! Anyway, before I watched this video, I figured out this way to calibrate my monitor by myself, but there were some really useful advices I got from this video. Thank you. And keep up your great videos ;)
Thanks a lot! I did not find any similar video on the Internet and decided to do it by myself. Looks like much more people came up with this idea and this is great! Happy that you've found some useful info here!
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.
this method is unreliable because it relies on you eyeballing things too much and makes the assumption that your phone screen is also color-correct, which may not always be the case.
Thanks :) however the correctness of the phone is not an assumption but science and it will only work for the ones that have colors close to perfect (there is an explanation in the video + link to the website). What about matching the phone to monitor - yes, this method is not perfect, but is free 😎
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
Why there aren't any critical opinions about this method? This not real color calibration. Matching monitor colors with your phone is just too random. Purpose of color calibration is to match emitted light's physical properties to its numeric value on computer. Method shown here would produce tens of different calibration profiles for same monitor based on random phones used. Accuracy by guessing would be close.
Thanks for your opinion. Well, it looks like you haven’t watched the entire video. I did not mention this is a proper calibration, however in many cases it is better than “matching emitted lights physical properties” offered by software. Apart from that I am not talking about random phones at all. It is actually very dependent on the phone - it should have a perfect Absolute Color Accuracy.
@@PavelSupanenka In that case video's name is little misleading. I watched whole video and it was comments, not video itself that made me worry about possible misunderstandings.
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.
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.
Thank you so much for this vid. I think most of us know that the best option is to get a colorimeter to calibrate but I just can't justify the cost at the minute for something I'll use a handful of times. So your video was perfect to help me align all of my screens together as a starting point.
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
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..
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!
Having a 6S Plus, I'm looking forward to testing it against an iMac 27" screen and a Dell factory calibrated 27" monitor attached to the same iMac. Thanks for this excellent tip and for saving your viewers both time and money in trying to achieve consistent color accuracy in our screens that may match the colors in the images we have captured over the years.
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 !!
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)
I used a trick with a white sheet of paper lit by daylight and calibrated my monitor to match it. I watched another YT video that showed it to be pretty accurate and it worked great for me. Seeing white paper having the same white as my monitor in the middle of the day is sweet. 😄 And it looks like my Pixel 6a has almost identical colors, so your trick confirmed my calibration. 😉
Hey! Well, premium monitors have better technology. It works the same way as with mobile phones, as it takes time to pre-calibrate the screen until it gets accurate. So I believe the cheaper ones despite worse quality in general are not so accurately calibrated at the factory.
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.
🧐 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)! 😅
This is EXACTLY what I was hoping to find. Every video I seem to upload looks pretty different color wise on my phone/TV versus my computer monitors. I have the iPhone 11 Pro, I don’t see it listed in the phone Best displays site but I will assume it is, since iPhones retina displays tend to be great?
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 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
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.
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 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 😉
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 TH-cam.
Glad to hear that!!!
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.....!
Is anyone else just blown away on how amazing this video is structured and put together. You could have just sat in front of your camera and talked but you went the extra mile and made the video actually interesting to watch too.
Thanks, dude! Happy you’ve found it not only informative, but entertaining as well. 🔥
So glad to see that I wasn't "crazy" when I thought about using my iPhone 13 Pro Max to compare my new monitor with when calibrating it! Also, one thing I found that really helped, was to go into Windows settings, and reduce the gamma, as I was getting the colors close, but too "washed out" :)
Cool, man!! 🔥
You can adjust Gamma in Windows?
@@deanrobertcrabb Yeah, at least in Windows 10, but not sure about 11 tho.. (In W10 you'll find it under advanced screen settings, and calibration)
if the colors are washed and the monitor is on HDMI, then there is a big chance that the display driver treats it like a HDTV and is not using the full range. Check in the drivers if the output dynamic range is set to full, instead of limited (in the case of nvdia drivers)
@@sebykos Yeah, that can definitelly make a big difference :)
The image quality in this video is one of the best I’ve seen on TH-cam. 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
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.
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! 🙌🏻
Audio sounds solid my dude!
Heaven to my ears to hear that from YOU. 🙌🏻
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??
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 🙌🏻
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!! 🙌🏻
You just saved me $200. I’m glad I was able to use my phone as a reference to calibrate my monitor. I noticed that my Color temperature was to high on the monitor and when I dropped it to 5500k, it made the biggest difference. Thank you
That’s the best what I’ve heard today. Happy for you!
6500k is the more accurate temp
Not always.
the production value of this video is off the freaking roof, man!
great job
Happy to hear that, man! 🔥
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.
I can't believe this really worked -- such a simple and effective solution! Thank you!!
You are very welcome 🤗
I used this as video refrence 5:43 😅
Made it in 5 mins
The result is mind blowing 🤯
Appreciated mate 👍
Thanks, Ammar! 🔥
Could You link the video please?
@@tommycaler9152 i used this specific scene in his video 5:43 with my mobile phone
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
Thank you!! I wish I would of thought of this before wasting 3 days of research.
He-he. Glad I was able to help🙌🏻
I just keep thinking of how many descent affordable monitors get rusted everyday by reviewers that just didn't take the time to do a good calibration. Get the monitor, CALIBRATE it well then come up with a final conclusion. Thanks for this video, very helpful!
That's exactly what I think as well! Everything is possible with a little bit of thinking and tweaking.
To some degree I'd say it's fair to review a monitor based on what it delivers out of the box as unfortunately not everyone will be savy enough to calibrate (or may think they must spend money to do so & don't wish to). However yes, it also makes sense to then calibrate it & showcase what each monitor is capable of since there are those willing & capable of calibrating their own monitors who would do well to know which monitor is worth aiming for with this in mind.
Good topic for the video.
I did this years ago, but set up 3 color profiles. One to best match an iphone, one to match a Samsung Galaxy, and one right inbetween. One thing to keep in mind is the colors on your phone change over time, and its not predictable as its dependent on the colors that were displayed over the years.
Great tip!
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!
Also looks like you were comparing to an iPhone, you have to turn off True Tone to get a real comparison since the true tone shifts the color spectrum of the phone panel based on ambient light.
True. Thanks for additional tip. Everything that modifies default colors should be turned off. I just have an older phone model that does not have this function :)
Great tips! Love the idea of bringing the phone closer to make the size appear bigger
Thanks, Ben! Yeah, illusions help sometimes :)
The only practical and genuine video I have found for calibrating my monitor...THANKYOU!
You are very welcome! Thank YOU!
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.
This video saved me from wasting money on a colorimeter. Great content 👍🏽
Thanks a lot for letting me know! Happy it helped!
If you're going to be producing professional content and on the Artistry side that deals photo and video editing also printing its a no brainer to get your monitor calibrated by hardware such as Spyder X. If you're an individual enthusiast this video will helped a lot.
@@exogendesign4582 exactly I'm not a professional it's simply for a better viewing experience on my monitor so yes this was great.
Wow !! Thank you very much !
Btw 10 years I have been on TH-cam 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!
What are your techniques for monitor calibration that do not require much effort?
nyou ned to put in effort to get results my friend
Well… probably someone knows about easier way :)
I’m so trying this!! I just got a Huion display drawing tablet and everything is brighter than what my phone and chat was seeing! I’ll update you all of this works
🤞🏼
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!
Great video brother! Does anyone know what brightness he is using for phone and monitor? 50%? 25% 💯 ? Brightness affects color accuracy so I’m really curious about what settings he used on the phone and monitor
Please help! 🙏🏼 thank you
Something around 2/3 of the scale, not too bright not too dim - normal light conditions.
So I make my computer monitor look like my phone then re-edit my video (pictures in Lightroom in my case)? This video is way more helpful than other videos I watched! 😊
Yahoo! So happy it was useful for you 😌
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!
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!
Well done dude, thank you, I was thinking of returning my monitor coz I didnt like the colours and had a hard time getting it decent.
Glad it is helpful 😌
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!
Same here. I use the phone for the calibration of the monitor.
Use black to grey to white stripes.
Cmyk, rgb and whole spectrum of colours like photoshop color ramps.
Because sometimes, your grey, Cmyk, rgb will be perfect but lots of in between colours will be going through BANDING and you will not have smooth gradients.
Great tip!
thank you so much. simple, straight to the point, and the only video that’s actually helped me. i’m a photographer switching from lightroom mobile to lightroom on pc, and my photos were very distorted before. now they are exactly the same from pc to mobile, thank you so much!
Thanks! 🙏🏻
Calibrated my OLED monitor to match/make it looks similar to MacBook air M1, and damn simply reducing the saturation makes it work like charm, it looks very similar now. Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Nice trick mate! it worked for me. I was struggling with two monitors (one LG HD and Samsung 4K), neither of them was showing the correct colors. I used my iPhone 12 as the reference and calibrated them. Now both of them look perfect. (at least for my eyes :) ) Thank you so much for the video. Off to the topic, what is the microphone you used for your recording?
Amazing! Glad it was helpful!
For my recording I used my good old boy Rode NTG3. Love this mic😌
Wow great! The sound quality was so good. Thank you for letting me know.
You are very welcome! Sound design is smth I love the most ☺️
Greatest tips to calibrate your monitor...
Even its old monitor...
Its work perfectly...
👍👍
Thanks a lot! 🔥
What.... the f*ck? Are you serious? COLOUR COVERAGE ISN'T THE SAME AS COLOUR ACCURACY. You basically matching colour your display to your phone, that's not the same having accurate colour at all.
Most if not all monitor already have 100 percent and more Rec.709 coverage, that doesn't mean all of them are calibrated correctly, and in fact, even the one that are factory calibrated isn't even that accurate if you needed it for colour critical work.
More importantly, every display colours shifted over time which mean even if your phone is actually calibrated to a perfection when it first came out of the factory, that doesn't mean that it will remain accurate by the time you use it as a point of reference.
Colorimeter existed for a reason.
Fine. Then colorimeter is your thing. What can I say :)
I just used the same technique, thank you man, this worked perfectly.
Glad it helped!
Wow, thats exactly what i did 2 weeks ago, before discovering that video. I realised most of the new phones have excelent color accuracy and just used mine for reference. Considering most of the work nowadays is viewed by a phone, i think this is the best option...
Still don`t know why most of the standart color profiles on different phones are a bit yellowish, but thats the way it is i gues...
Yeah... Probably because to calibrate every single phone at the factory is a big effort. Manufacturers of cheaper phones do not want to waste their time to make the screens perfect.
@@PavelSupanenka do u need to enable the iphone true tone function for lets say iphone 11 pro max b4 u start the monitor calibration?
My opinion is NO, because it adjusts dynamically the white balance according to the environment.
This is the best idea I have gotten from TH-cam in the last week minimum!! Gold, thank you!
🫠 thanks
This is actually a lifesaver. Thank you a lot.
Happy it’s helpful
I calibrated my monitor with this video!
That’s great news! 👏🏼
this finally, actually worked. I was hitting my head trying to adjust to lagom's caliberation it never calibrated the gamma to it.
Hurray!
Great video! it took me a while to get my monitors adjusted but it works and the color looks solid now.
Glad it helped!
Woww.... You solved my problem on my 3 different monitors.
My main monitor already calibrated then adjust it back with my phone and the rest.
Thanks man... 👍.
So happy to hear that!
Thank you so much for this video! I was wondering why my art looked so good on my PC and then garbage on my phone. This helped me a lot to fix the colors and make them a little bit more consistent across all devices.
One thing that my monitor didn't have though is adjusting each of the RGB colors individually, so I had to do it through Nvidia control panel to adjust things over there if anyone else has this problem.
Awesome workaround, Sonny! Thanks!
a very well made educational video, it's clear and easily digastable, I've found just info I was looking for my monitor
Thanks :)
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.
this is such a clever way to tackle this issue, kudos!
Thank you! 🙌🏻
Exactly what I needed! You saved me tons of hours of research
I am so happy to hear that 🙌🏻
Thank you very much:)
You're welcome!
This video is very well produced. You really need more subscribers, so here is my subscription! Anyway, before I watched this video, I figured out this way to calibrate my monitor by myself, but there were some really useful advices I got from this video. Thank you. And keep up your great videos ;)
Thanks a lot! I did not find any similar video on the Internet and decided to do it by myself. Looks like much more people came up with this idea and this is great! Happy that you've found some useful info here!
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.
this method is unreliable because it relies on you eyeballing things too much and makes the assumption that your phone screen is also color-correct, which may not always be the case.
Thanks :) however the correctness of the phone is not an assumption but science and it will only work for the ones that have colors close to perfect (there is an explanation in the video + link to the website). What about matching the phone to monitor - yes, this method is not perfect, but is free 😎
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!
Why there aren't any critical opinions about this method? This not real color calibration. Matching monitor colors with your phone is just too random. Purpose of color calibration is to match emitted light's physical properties to its numeric value on computer. Method shown here would produce tens of different calibration profiles for same monitor based on random phones used. Accuracy by guessing would be close.
Thanks for your opinion. Well, it looks like you haven’t watched the entire video. I did not mention this is a proper calibration, however in many cases it is better than “matching emitted lights physical properties” offered by software. Apart from that I am not talking about random phones at all. It is actually very dependent on the phone - it should have a perfect Absolute Color Accuracy.
@@PavelSupanenka In that case video's name is little misleading. I watched whole video and it was comments, not video itself that made me worry about possible misunderstandings.
Well, anyhow it has helped lots of people already.
what a great information!
took me less than 20mins to calibrate and it worked, thankyou very much
Happy it worked for you! Great job!
and it is at that moment that i finally regretted that i bought a phone with a terrible screen calibration (mi 9t)
Well... Who could have known...
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!!!
Phenomenal video - going to try this!
Thanks!
Always thought this made sense, thanks for confirming. Used for photography.
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 ☺️
Thank you, a hundred times, over, can't believe I didn't think of this!
You are welcome! 🔥
Thank you so much for this vid. I think most of us know that the best option is to get a colorimeter to calibrate but I just can't justify the cost at the minute for something I'll use a handful of times. So your video was perfect to help me align all of my screens together as a starting point.
Thats great, Jo! Happy you find it useful!
but what should the brightness level of your iphone for that reference ?
2/3
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!
When you pulled out your iPhone 6s my lightbulb it up. Main question, does this work for photography as well?
I think it works for everything what needs a monitor with good colors representation.
@@PavelSupanenka Thank you, sir!
Thanks. I have been trying to calibrate my new monitor for a week until I saw this video. Wish I have seen this sooner.
I am really glad it was helpful 🙌
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.
You're THE Best! The Trick worked wonders! Kudos!
Awesome! 😎
Thank you so much for this I have also an ASUS monitor so I was surprised, it was on my recommended when I actually needed it
Awesome! Looks like TH-cam knows what we need sometimes 😎
You’re a genius mate. Thanks!
Glad to help
Thanks, I got a very good result matching the nvidia control panel.
Awesome!
Honestly the best video on this topic
Thanks a lot 😊
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!
Having a 6S Plus, I'm looking forward to testing it against an iMac 27" screen and a Dell factory calibrated 27" monitor attached to the same iMac. Thanks for this excellent tip and for saving your viewers both time and money in trying to achieve consistent color accuracy in our screens that may match the colors in the images we have captured over the years.
Thank you! Let us know how it goes.
It worked great. Thanks a million
You are more than welcome.
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 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!
I used a trick with a white sheet of paper lit by daylight and calibrated my monitor to match it. I watched another YT video that showed it to be pretty accurate and it worked great for me. Seeing white paper having the same white as my monitor in the middle of the day is sweet. 😄
And it looks like my Pixel 6a has almost identical colors, so your trick confirmed my calibration. 😉
And it’s free 😎
Hello, why on premium monitors the colours look better than many basics after calibration? For example a TN panel vs an IPS.
Hey! Well, premium monitors have better technology. It works the same way as with mobile phones, as it takes time to pre-calibrate the screen until it gets accurate. So I believe the cheaper ones despite worse quality in general are not so accurately calibrated at the factory.
Dude, thank you so much! My monitor’s colors are SO much better now. Finally, a solution for me!
Awesome!!! 🔥
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 💪
🧐 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!
This is EXACTLY what I was hoping to find. Every video I seem to upload looks pretty different color wise on my phone/TV versus my computer monitors. I have the iPhone 11 Pro, I don’t see it listed in the phone Best displays site but I will assume it is, since iPhones retina displays tend to be great?
Yeah, I am pretty sure, iPhone's 11 Pro screen will be a great screen to compare to.
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 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 💪🏼
Video starts around 3:30 ignore the first half.
Do you move to the end of the movie to find out how it ends? 🥲 Weird
@@PavelSupanenka 😜 actually, I do sometimes. I hate suspense.
😅🤌🏼
@@PavelSupanenka haha no kidding. Hey thanks for the video though. Got my monitor calibrated a lot better with your help. Cheers!
Best calibrating video ever
Thanks, man!
it actually was on my mind then i saw your video , guess what !!?? it worked
That’s awesome!!!
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.
Such a great video! Is this good too for high end photo retouching for headshots that need to be printed?
Hey, thanks:) I believe it should be fine for printing as well since it looks the same on all other devices.
Super useful!!
Thanks ☺️
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! 🔥