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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Just replaced iMac with Mac Mini and an Asus Monitor. Yours is the only practical calibration info I could find and it's a huge help. I knew there was an uncomplicated answer!
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 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.
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.
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'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!
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 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!
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?
Take a picture of your room and open the photo in the computer. Just match the colors so the photo looks like what you see IRL every day. Bing bang boom, easy.
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.
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
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.
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! 😊
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, 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.
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 :)
well this is the best way possible to calibrate by eye but still far from perfect because when you watching a film you can still see different colours on shadows or lights that should be adjusted on 20 points so you need calibration after all
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.
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.
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!
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 😎
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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
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 !!
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 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!!!
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 :)
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.....!
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
Audio sounds solid my dude!
Heaven to my ears to hear that from 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.
Thanks, Thomas 🙌🏻
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.
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??
Just replaced iMac with Mac Mini and an Asus Monitor. Yours is the only practical calibration info I could find and it's a huge help. I knew there was an uncomplicated answer!
So happy 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! 🙌🏻
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.
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. 🔥
the production value of this video is off the freaking roof, man!
great job
Happy to hear that, man! 🔥
I love when a small creator makes an absolute banger of a video🙏
Thanks a ton for kind words 😌
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.
Great tips! Love the idea of bringing the phone closer to make the size appear bigger
Thanks, Ben! Yeah, illusions help sometimes :)
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
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!
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 :)
Absolutely remarkable! Thank you so much! Didn't realize my monitor could look this good.
So happy it worked for you 😌
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!
Thanks, My monitor looks better than before and not hurting my eyes more!!
Happy to hear that. Thanks for sharing.
This is the best idea I have gotten from TH-cam in the last week minimum!! Gold, thank you!
🫠 thanks
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 is such a clever way to tackle this issue, kudos!
Thank you! 🙌🏻
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 can't believe this really worked -- such a simple and effective solution! Thank you!!
You are very welcome 🤗
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.
This worked exceptionally well. I didn’t even realize how messed up my monitors colors were!
Glad to hear it worked!
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!
this finally, actually worked. I was hitting my head trying to adjust to lagom's caliberation it never calibrated the gamma to it.
Hurray!
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 ☺️
a very well made educational video, it's clear and easily digastable, I've found just info I was looking for my monitor
Thanks :)
Take a picture of your room and open the photo in the computer. Just match the colors so the photo looks like what you see IRL every day. Bing bang boom, easy.
Sounds like a great way to match colors too!
Thank you so much 🖤🖤
Happy to help 😎
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 made minor adjustment and set to standard RGB. Thank you!
Excellent!
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 just used the same technique, thank you man, this worked perfectly.
Glad it helped!
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.
This worked like a charm! Loved it :D
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!
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 😎
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 😌
Helpful! Thank you! 😎🙏
Happy to help!
I calibrated my monitor with this video!
That’s great news! 👏🏼
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!
TY! screenshot✅ :P
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.
You're THE Best! The Trick worked wonders! Kudos!
Awesome! 😎
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 :)
thank you, bro! that was unexpectedly useful!
Happy to hear that 🙌🏻
well this is the best way possible to calibrate by eye but still far from perfect because when you watching a film you can still see different colours on shadows or lights that should be adjusted on 20 points so you need calibration after all
True. It’s not perfect…
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!
This is actually a lifesaver. Thank you a lot.
Happy it’s 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.
You’re a genius mate. Thanks!
Glad to help
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!
Thank you, a hundred times, over, can't believe I didn't think of this!
You are welcome! 🔥
The only practical and genuine video I have found for calibrating my monitor...THANKYOU!
You are very welcome! Thank YOU!
Thanks, I got a very good result matching the nvidia control panel.
Awesome!
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...
Phenomenal video - going to try this!
Thanks!
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 😎
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
Exactly what I needed! You saved me tons of hours of research
I am so happy to hear that 🙌🏻
Dude, THANK YOU 🤝🔥
Very welcome :)
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!
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!
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 :)
what a great information!
took me less than 20mins to calibrate and it worked, thankyou very much
Happy it worked for you! Great job!
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.
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.
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 🙌
Dope! I'll have to try this, thank you!
Thanks ☺️
Always thought this made sense, thanks for confirming. Used for photography.
Thank you ☺️
It worked great. Thanks a million
You are more than welcome.
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 ☺️
I have never thought of this before! Thanks for the idea!
You are very welcome, Joshua!
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!!!
This works!!! Thanks 🤝
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback, Luke.
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!
Amazing. Thank you so much 😊
You are welcome 🤗
Acutally good advice , thanksss!
You’re welcome 😇
Dude, thank you so much! My monitor’s colors are SO much better now. Finally, a solution for me!
Awesome!!! 🔥
I'm going to try this method tomorrow thanks so much very help full
Super! 🤞🏻
thanks man, you helped a lot!!
Happy to hear that🙌🏻
In never thought of that....great job!
Thanks!
Great way to do it. So obvious, yet I'd never thought of that. Thankyou
Thanks, Annie!
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!
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Thanks, dude! 🙌🏻
Thank you very much:)
You're welcome!
Really appreciate this video!!! 😄🏞🌴
You are very welcome 🤗
Amazing bro! thank you so much:)
Awesome! Glad when it helps more and more people!
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
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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!!
Thankyou for this precious video
You are very welcome! ☺️
I can definitely see big difference, thanks for the info.
You are very 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!
Will try it for sure💜❤️ Thankyou❤️
Hope you’ll enjoy this technique ☺️