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all monitors
would come pre-calibrated to display at
their best. After all, this isn’t just a boobtube, it’s a monitor; it’s supposed to give
an unbiased, completely accurate view of
what’s coming out of your graphics card.
Trouble is, as you’ll know from a trip past
any computer storefront, LCD makers have
varying ideas of what constitutes optimum
image quality. That’s fine if all you want to
do is kick back and enjoy Keeping Up with
the Kardashians, but those of us with sophisticated viewing requirements demand
more from our monitors.
Monitor calibration ensures the color
output from your monitor matches a predefined standard, rather than whatever
it happens to display after rolling off the
production line. The calibration process
doesn’t alter anything about the monitor
itself, apart from adjusting internal settings like brightness or contrast. Instead,
calibration detects the colors emitted by
your screen and creates a custom sof t ware
profile that tells Windows and your graphics drivers how to compensate for any color
discrepancies. Your graphics card can distort its output, so what you end up seeing
on your monitor conforms to a preset color
benchmark such as the sRGB or Adobe
RGB color space.
All this messing around is usually left
to digital-imaging fanatics who need the
utmost consistency for image editing and
printing, but we gaming and video enthusiasts can also reap the rewards of a modified monitor. After all, what’s the point in setting up the perfect mouse
dpi, fine-tuning custom macros, and tweaking graphics quality for
maximum frame rates when bad contrast or gamma settings could
give you all the vision of gaming behind a welding mask? Likewise, a
large part of a game like Fez’s visual appeal is its carefully chosen color palette, so it makes sense to banish your monitor’s color screw-ups
and view these digital landscapes as their designers intended.
would come pre-calibrated to display at
their best. After all, this isn’t just a boobtube, it’s a monitor; it’s supposed to give
an unbiased, completely accurate view of
what’s coming out of your graphics card.
Trouble is, as you’ll know from a trip past
any computer storefront, LCD makers have
varying ideas of what constitutes optimum
image quality. That’s fine if all you want to
do is kick back and enjoy Keeping Up with
the Kardashians, but those of us with sophisticated viewing requirements demand
more from our monitors.
Monitor calibration ensures the color
output from your monitor matches a predefined standard, rather than whatever
it happens to display after rolling off the
production line. The calibration process
doesn’t alter anything about the monitor
itself, apart from adjusting internal settings like brightness or contrast. Instead,
calibration detects the colors emitted by
your screen and creates a custom sof t ware
profile that tells Windows and your graphics drivers how to compensate for any color
discrepancies. Your graphics card can distort its output, so what you end up seeing
on your monitor conforms to a preset color
benchmark such as the sRGB or Adobe
RGB color space.
All this messing around is usually left
to digital-imaging fanatics who need the
utmost consistency for image editing and
printing, but we gaming and video enthusiasts can also reap the rewards of a modified monitor. After all, what’s the point in setting up the perfect mouse
dpi, fine-tuning custom macros, and tweaking graphics quality for
maximum frame rates when bad contrast or gamma settings could
give you all the vision of gaming behind a welding mask? Likewise, a
large part of a game like Fez’s visual appeal is its carefully chosen color palette, so it makes sense to banish your monitor’s color screw-ups
and view these digital landscapes as their designers intended.
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