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Calibrating Your Screen - What to Know

The following article contains information about calibrating your screen, explaining the target values and explaining what ICC profiles are: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/calibrating.htm

There are two steps to these forms of calibration:

1) Obtaining the optimum starting point at a hardware level - this involves setting the OSD settings to the recommended levels for brightness, contrast, RGB, gamma, colour temperature etc. During a calibration process the device/software will often guide you to reaching this optimum starting point before more finite corrections are made through the creation of the profile at the graphics card level. Getting to the best hardware setting first can help ensure the profiling needs to do "less work" to correct your settings, and ensure tonal values are preserved. Use the recommended OSD settings as a starting point which will be a good start.

2) Profiling the screen at a graphics card level - after the optimum hardware starting point has been achieved, the rest of the process is usually automated, while the device makes more accurate corrections to improve the gamma, white point and colour accuracy of the screen. These corrections are made through the creation of the ICC profile at a graphics card level. Once finished, the profile is activated and combined with the OSD settings in step 1, should give you a good set-up. You can use the ICC profiles available to offer that extra level of correction and they can be easily activated, or removed if you do not see benefit or they do not work on your screen.