Monitor colour calibration tools?

MumboJumbo · 7 Jun 2008 at 11:26

Hey i wondered if there are any programs/ guides to getting the best colour out of a monitor. Ive got my BenQ FP241W 24" coming today and i wana get the best picture i can out of it.

Any advice?

MumboJumbo · 7 Jun 2008 at 13:04

mm still not turned up, shall city link strike again?

MumboJumbo · 8 Jun 2008 at 19:39

find it hard to beleive no one on here knows of anything i could use to calibrate the colours of my monitor. What happened to badass etc?

Though i dont actually have it yet as city-link = incompetent (fill in the word)

MumboJumbo · 8 Jun 2008 at 22:26

Yes your right i didn't actually thinka bout that. But to be fair i did spend a lot of time goolgling instead to find a load of crap.

Ty anyways

MumboJumbo · 8 Jun 2008 at 22:35

mm using one of the calibrators on there turns my screen a pale blue yet i followed it and did it all as what looked right to me.

MumboJumbo · 8 Jun 2008 at 23:12

yeah but surely trying by eye is better then nothing. dont really wana buy a colormieter, specialy seens as i dont do photo editing or anything.

MumboJumbo · 8 Jun 2008 at 23:32

50 quid is something i probably cant justify. For just gaming really. yeash i know i spent 450 quid on a screen. But that was a at strech lol.

Would have hoped there was just some program i couild run and follow the tests and it be good for gaming. Alas on my current one it turned the screen blue. Though im sure the screen will look amazing when i get it anyway... thats when i get it, city-link at all.

BTW if you see on the news city link depo got burnt down it wasn't me. I probably shouldn't say that knowing my luck it may actually happen now lol.

MumboJumbo · 9 Jun 2008 at 15:14

Yeah but it wouldn't be me paying for it so i wont be able to justify it lol.

O and just as an update, the very well known shop which i bought it from did infact not use city-link to send the pacel like their god damn website says. They used TNT. Who for the record also missed the saturday deleivery and claimed they did try and deleiver it and instead droped a card through my door today.

So not only did the certain shop screw up but so did TNT. I have the worlds worst luck with delievery and i dont live anywhere rural either.

MumboJumbo · 9 Jun 2008 at 19:03

were you drinkign at the time perhaps?

MumboJumbo · 10 Jun 2008 at 22:08

Finaly got it and sigh it has some back light bleed at the top.

MumboJumbo · 11 Jun 2008 at 21:23

mines not a big spot, but it annoys me to know i payed 450 quid for a monitor which should imo be perfect for that price. Sigh they make it so much hassel its not worth sending back.
As for the colour, well im no expert but it seems incredible. Even the presets are impressive. i was watching lord of the rings and fiddling with the colours. I use the photo setting for doing day to day busness and writing is really crisp and dynamics for gaming and films or standard, that gives a good gaming picture too.

But as for having to change with the red blue and green. Ive not noticed any imperfections in colour so i gues there isn't any point in me fiddling. It may not be perfect but i cant tell as i have nothing but an old 19" to compare it too.

MumboJumbo · 11 Jun 2008 at 23:38

mmm graphics card controls. I may try that but it does seem stunning as it is.