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.
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)
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.
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 UA-cam.
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'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!
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.
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 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’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 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.
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 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!
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!
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 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)! 😅
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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... 👍.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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 have been calibrating monitors with my iPhone 13 pro max and I’ll tell you it’s better than nothing. My 13 pro max is almost perfect in calibration (leans towards green in some of the grays) but other than that it’s nearly perfect. I can confirm this with a monitor calibrated at 65d for sRGB (out of the factory) with
This was my actual technique since I can't get the calibration tools. And I actually land almost on point in color accuracy while calibrating my monitor. But I'll soon get a calibration tool when I can find one for original price in my region.
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 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!!
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)
This is great. You just saved me $200. I did not even know my S9 plus phone has AMOLED Photo mode. In my macbook pro, I first ran built-in color calibrator which did not give good result. Then I opened same image in both my phone and MAC to pick a profile that closely matches the phone display. Subbed to say thanks. PS: Had to turn off night filter on both.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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. 😉
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 !!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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 UA-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.
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 :)
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. 🔥
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 UA-cam.
Glad 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! 🙌🏻
Audio sounds solid my dude!
Heaven to my ears to hear that from YOU. 🙌🏻
the production value of this video is off the freaking roof, man!
great job
Happy to hear that, man! 🔥
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!! 🙌🏻
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 🙌🏻
Great tips! Love the idea of bringing the phone closer to make the size appear bigger
Thanks, Ben! Yeah, illusions help sometimes :)
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 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!! 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’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 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??
The only practical and genuine video I have found for calibrating my monitor...THANKYOU!
You are very welcome! 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! 😊
Yahoo! So happy it was useful 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!
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 🤗
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!
You’re a genius mate. Thanks!
Glad to help
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! 🙏🏻
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.
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!
This is the best idea I have gotten from UA-cam in the last week minimum!! Gold, thank you!
🫠 thanks
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 :)
Wow !! Thank you very much !
Btw 10 years I have been on UA-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!
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 very much:)
You're welcome!
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!
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 ☺️
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.
🧐 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!
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.
Phenomenal video - going to try this!
Thanks!
Great video! it took me a while to get my monitors adjusted but it works and the color looks solid now.
Glad it helped!
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!
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!
I just used the same technique, thank you man, this worked perfectly.
Glad it helped!
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 :)
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!
I calibrated my monitor with this video!
That’s great news! 👏🏼
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!
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 :)
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!!!
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...
Greatest tips to calibrate your monitor...
Even its old monitor...
Its work perfectly...
👍👍
Thanks a lot! 🔥
Exactly what I needed! You saved me tons of hours of research
I am so happy to hear that 🙌🏻
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
it actually was on my mind then i saw your video , guess what !!?? it worked
That’s awesome!!!
Always thought this made sense, thanks for confirming. Used for photography.
Thank you ☺️
I have been calibrating monitors with my iPhone 13 pro max and I’ll tell you it’s better than nothing. My 13 pro max is almost perfect in calibration (leans towards green in some of the grays) but other than that it’s nearly perfect. I can confirm this with a monitor calibrated at 65d for sRGB (out of the factory) with
Thanks for your feedback!
what a great information!
took me less than 20mins to calibrate and it worked, thankyou very much
Happy it worked for you! Great job!
This was my actual technique since I can't get the calibration tools. And I actually land almost on point in color accuracy while calibrating my monitor. But I'll soon get a calibration tool when I can find one for original price in my region.
Cool! Sometimes DIY is what we need 😎
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!
Thank you, a hundred times, over, can't believe I didn't think of this!
You are welcome! 🔥
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 🙌
It worked great. Thanks a million
You are more than welcome.
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! 🔥
Dude, thank you so much! My monitor’s colors are SO much better now. Finally, a solution for me!
Awesome!!! 🔥
This is so helpful, thanks.
You are welcome 🤗
Great video. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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!!!
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!
This is great. You just saved me $200. I did not even know my S9 plus phone has AMOLED Photo mode. In my macbook pro, I first ran built-in color calibrator which did not give good result. Then I opened same image in both my phone and MAC to pick a profile that closely matches the phone display. Subbed to say thanks. PS: Had to turn off night filter on both.
That’s awesome! Glad that more and more people find it helpful.
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.
this is such a clever way to tackle this issue, kudos!
Thank you! 🙌🏻
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
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.
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 UA-cam knows what we need sometimes 😎
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! 🔥
Dude, THANK YOU 🤝🔥
Very welcome :)
Fantastic trick !
Thanks😌
That is why I do edditing photos on my apple Ipad because its color space acuracy !
Good choice
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!
You're THE Best! The Trick worked wonders! Kudos!
Awesome! 😎
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 😎
I dont know what I say this brother is so! Amazing, Thanks Bro you help me with my issue God bless you Channl to Hit 1 million Subs!
Thanks, dude! 🙌🏻
was doing this for a long time now but I didnt know that iphone 6 models have this great color accuracy!
Right? 💪🏻
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!!
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!
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 🤗
Great video! I did it using my poco m5s that has a oled display, and my monitor is really better
That’s great to hear!
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:)
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 can definitely see big difference, thanks for the info.
You are very welcome 🤗
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 💪🏼
what brightness my guy WHAT BRIGHTNESS
The default one
I'm going to try this method tomorrow thanks so much very help full
Super! 🤞🏻