I was speechless!.. How to CALIBRATE a MONITOR without a colorimeter
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- In this video I show how you can easily calibrate your monitor without using a Colorimeter or mobile applications. This technique is not perfect and depends on the model of the phone you own, however it works great for me.
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I did this exact thing and it worked better than any colorimeter
That's incredible! 🔥
it can't
@@sentbycyberliferk800 it can:)
@@PavelSupanenka that's what you believe in Pavel :(
It helped me and thousands of people 😉
It's rare you find a video where the creator presents something both novel and useful. I commend you!
Thanks a ton, man! I was really surprised nobody has made a video about that :)
What do you mean? It took him 5 minutes to tell us to eyeball it and he didn’t even show a proper method for eyeballing it.
Make a shorter video and post it on YT. What’s the issue? 🤷🏻♂️
true.....!
The image quality in this video is one of the best I’ve seen on CZcams. 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
Great tips! Love the idea of bringing the phone closer to make the size appear bigger
Thanks, Ben! Yeah, illusions help sometimes :)
the production value of this video is off the freaking roof, man!
great job
Happy to hear that, man! 🔥
Audio sounds solid my dude!
Heaven to my ears to hear that from YOU. 🙌🏻
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 :)
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! 🙌🏻
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.
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! 🙏🏻
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!
Great video! it took me a while to get my monitors adjusted but it works and the color looks solid now.
Glad it helped!
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!
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 ☺️
Thank you!! I wish I would of thought of this before wasting 3 days of research.
He-he. Glad I was able to help🙌🏻
Thanks for the help! I think I managed to get my monitors looking a lot better. One seems to be a tiny bit more vibrant, but I think that's just the nature of having both a TN and IPS panel.
Awesome. Happy to see it helps more and more people 🤗
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 🙌
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. 🔥
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!
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!
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 :)
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 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!
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.
YES! this definitely helped me get the monitor to be the color correction for the moment I do plan to buy a new monitor soon but I needed to get it calibrated to finish this job I'm doing thank you so much for this
You are welcome!
I have never thought of this before! Thanks for the idea!
You are very welcome, Joshua!
Hi Pavel, thank you very much for your recommendation. It's an excellent idea and your video is made very well. Could you please share the settings of your ASUS monitor since I use the exact same monitor and would love to have a comparsion or starting point for my own calibration. Keep up the good work, greetings from Germany.
Hi, man! Absolutely! So, I have "Splendid" --> "Standard mode". Then in the "Color" I have Brightness 100, Contrast 90, Color Temp. --> "User Mode" --> R 89, G 89, B100. Hope this will help, however it may happen that the same model due to its age may have colors displayed differently. Anyway, thanks for your question! 🙌
@@PavelSupanenka Thanks for the really quick and detailed answer - really appreciate it!
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.
I just used the same technique, thank you man, this worked perfectly.
Glad it helped!
this is such a clever way to tackle this issue, kudos!
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.
Yeah. Thats the best option without using a colorimeter.
Wait… CRT gives better color than modern displays??
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'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 actually pretty cool and very helpful!! Thanks for the video! :D
Thanks, James 👍🏼
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'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!
Thank you for your video! 🙏 I've seen a lot of comments asking about brightness and I see you've said that brightness does not effect color. But does brightness affect contrast (or our ability to detect differences in contrast)? How do you know when the levels in a photograph need to be changed if you can always just increase or decrease the brightness on your device to compensate?
Brightness and contrast are two different settings. If you have them set up the way you like and your reference screen looks the same good - then whatever changes to brightness and contrast you need to do in your photograph should be done in the software settings of editing program, not the screen.
This was super helpful - thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful, Kyra! Thanks!
Exactly what I needed! You saved me tons of hours of research
I am so happy to hear that 🙌🏻
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 🙌🏻
This is a very smart way of doing this. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
I calibrated my monitor with this video!
That’s great news! 👏🏼
The only practical and genuine video I have found for calibrating my monitor...THANKYOU!
You are very welcome! Thank YOU!
Very neat! Thanks for a helpful and informative video - I shall give your technique a try!
Sure thing, John! Good luck!
what a great information!
took me less than 20mins to calibrate and it worked, thankyou very much
Happy it worked for you! Great job!
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.
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.
Wow !! Thank you very much !
Btw 10 years I have been on CZcams 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!
Always thought this made sense, thanks for confirming. Used for photography.
Thank you ☺️
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
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!
Dude
just thank you, saved so much of my time
You are very welcome!!! 🙏🏻
You're THE Best! The Trick worked wonders! Kudos!
Awesome! 😎
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.
Dude, change the title to - How to calibrate display WITH AN IPHONE. Not only will you get more views but I hope that you will understand the reality that Apple is not giving out their phones as free gifts to everybody. Thanks.
Thanks for your thoughts, man. Actually, it is working not only for iPhones 😎. That would be too narrow I guess.
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.
Hi Pavel, I've a BenQ monitor and most of the time I do video editing work. Which mode is best for getting the best color accuracy? sRGB or HDR?
If you have an HDR monitor, then of course it's great to use it as it has a wider color range, contrast etc., however still you need to calibrate it in order to have accurate colors. On the other hand if you have just a talking head in your videos, I wouldn't bother and go with sRGB all along.
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...
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 😎
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!
It worked great. Thanks a million
You are more than 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 :)
Worked super cool, thank you!
Happy to hear that! You are very welcome!
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.
Super dope video, just what I needed! Keep the great content!!
Thanks dude! 🙌🏻
I'm going to try this method tomorrow thanks so much very help full
Super! 🤞🏻
Really appreciate this video!!! 😄🏞🌴
You are very welcome 🤗
thanks man, you helped a lot!!
Happy to hear that🙌🏻
Thank you, a hundred times, over, can't believe I didn't think of this!
You are welcome! 🔥
Will try it for sure💜❤️ Thankyou❤️
Hope you’ll enjoy this technique ☺️
Thankyou for this precious video
You are very welcome! ☺️
This worked like a charm! Loved it :D
Thank you!!!
Dude, thank you so much! My monitor’s colors are SO much better now. Finally, a solution for me!
Awesome!!! 🔥
Thank you for this video. This is very useful information. Also nice production.
Thanks a ton! 🙌🏻
I totally would have never thought to try this. Thank you so much for the great information. I'll report back once I get the chance to play with the settings on my monitor a bit.
Awesome! Sure, let me know:)
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 CZcams.
Glad to hear that!!!
WHOA! I am SHOCKED how quick and easy that was. I just went from being super disappointed in this monitor to quite pleased. Thank you.
Happy to hear that!!!
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 CZcams knows what we need sometimes 😎
Acutally good advice , thanksss!
You’re welcome 😇
Such a great video! Thanks dude :)
You are very welcome!!
I can definitely see big difference, thanks for the info.
You are very welcome 🤗
Honestly the best video on this topic
Thanks a lot 😊
Thanks so much Pavel, this is such a smart but simple approach. I was on the verge of buying a colorimeter or photo and video work but I think this will get me as close as I need to be. One question though - what should I set my phone's brightness to? I assume this will affect the phone as a refference? I have an iPhone 13.
Glad you find it useful 😊 Well, I do not think brightness anyhow influences the color itself. However if your room is not too bright, probably 80% of brightness will be more than enough.
great tutorial. Thank you very much
You are very welcome, Farouk!
Very sensible and helpful!
Thanks for your opinion :)
Awesome tip, do you have any recommendations for a certain reference image that makes this easy?
I used some of my random videos which have snow and are rich in colors. However it does not matter. It can be any CZcams video - just make sure you have there as many colors as possible and white color in particular.
Dude! You are the man! Thank you!
You are more than welcome! 🔥
Saved my day. Thank you!
Happy it worked for you!
Amazing bro! thank you so much:)
Awesome! Glad when it helps more and more people!
Thank you for this great information !
You are very welcome, Winni!
Amazing. Thank you so much 😊
You are welcome 🤗
Very useful video, I was looking for an app, but I'd definitely try this out first. Dipping my toes in video editing soon and I don't want to burn a hole in my pocket buying stuff. I'll follow up to let you know how it worked out for me.
Sounds great! Good luck with calibrating! 🤞🏻
this finally, actually worked. I was hitting my head trying to adjust to lagom's caliberation it never calibrated the gamma to it.
Hurray!
Really good video, thank you!
You are very welcome, Adrian!
thanks a lot! This saved me so many nerves and time :D
You are welcome! 😎
In never thought of that....great job!
Thanks!
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.