New monitor

[Ofuh]

Ok so I got a new monitor on saturday, Viewsonic Vx2240w and it's been great (no dead pixels) except for one thing. I can't get the damn colors/contrast whatever right

I've spent part of this morning and yesterday off and on fiddling with the settings on the monitor and the video card utility tool. I will get it to look decent on one image but then I open another image and it looks terrible.

I don't know how to really describe in technical terms what the problem is so I'll try to do the best I can. Basically all or parts of some images become very blurry, almost as if someone ran their greasy finger over a painting and made the colors all blurry and smudgy

As I said earlier, I've been trying to mess with the contrast/color/brightness settings on the video card utilty and the monitor itself. Is it a possibilty that since this monitor is 22" with a higher resolution than my previous one (~16-17 CRT) the image loses quality since it appears larger than on my other monitor?

Anyone have any ideas or suggesttions? Should I just keep on endlessly trying to change the settings until I finally somehow get it right? Is there some kidn of program that you can use to align your colors to it? There was one that came with my video card but it was completely worthless I used it and it just made everything worse so I had to change it back. Could it be that it is just the monitor that sucks?
thanks..

 

[GVBN]

Use this site to adjust monitor settings http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

 

[Ofuh]

Use this site to adjust monitor settings http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

I think my monitor must fail miserably...

I can't get to see all the different bars on the first test unless I turn up all my settings on almost maximum which makes everything else look like absolute crap.

I'm thinking of calling up viewsonic/returning this monitor..

Is it common to have to spend a lot of time tweaking settings on the monitor when you buy them? I know it is common to adjust brightness because many times they come at 100% brightness setting, but it's the first time I hear of having to bend over backwards trying to adjust the colors and everything..

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Im gonna ask this, and it may be a stupid question. But do you have your resolution set correctly? Most lcd's have a native resolution at which they look best. Anything below that makes it look really crappy.

 

[Ofuh]

Im gonna ask this, and it may be a stupid question. But do you have your resolution set correctly? Most lcd's have a native resolution at which they look best. Anything below that makes it look really crappy.

Yes I do have it set correctly.

I'm happy to announce that I think I finally got it to look good. The color that was giving me the most trouble was the different shades of brown.

I ended up getting a lot of pictures of brown skinned people of different shades to test my colors on. Tonight I was finally able to get realistic looking colors and not have people look like aliens. Correction, I was able to do it before, but it would result in my shades of red getting the problem. Tonight I was able to get both brown and red living peacefully together

I hope I don't end up finding a new color which gives me trouble but everything seeems tobe going good so far.

Things that appear low quality now are mostly because of the image itself being low quality and not my colors being all over the place

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Since its a viewsonic, it most likely came with drivers, did you install those? They have some profiles included for color correction, which might do something, although Im not very sure ( I too got a new viewsonic recently )

 

[duckmanbro]

I find the stock "Adobe Gamma" controls in Windows to be perfect for calibration. You just need a sensitive eye and a neutral coloured surrounding.

 

[Ofuh]

I find the stock "Adobe Gamma" controls in Windows to be perfect for calibration. You just need a sensitive eye and a neutral coloured surrounding.

After viewing more pictures I've concluded that victory was declared too early. Colors are still appearing out of whack on many pictures and it is still those damn skin tones but it s more noticeable in darker shades.


How do I access adobe gamma? I've tried googling but it didn't do me any good.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

it should be in the control panel if you have ever installed an adobe graphics product ( photoshop, etc)

 

[duckmanbro]

I have always had Adobe Gamma for some reason unbeknownst to me without even having Photoshop or other products (unless it has something to do with Adobe Reader too?).

But as Stickciv said, ir is in your control panel, make the most of it!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

its possible it came with an Adobe Reader update ( cus hell, its updating over a gig of stuff, might as well throw in this little app ). Or it could have been integrated with your windows install.

 

[duckmanbro]

Yep. Either way I use it along with a spectrophotometer to measure my colour calibration as colour is everything for me and design.

 

[Ofuh]

Well I don't have it

is there anything else I can use?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

You could try This program by Nokia

 

[Ofuh]

It says it is used to check CRT performance. Mine is lcd. Will it matter?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Possibly. I didnt see that bit >.<

 

[duckmanbro]

It says it is used to check CRT performance. Mine is lcd. Will it matter?

Yes, it will matter seeing CRTs use phosphors and LCD use crystals. Well, I am pretty sure it makes a difference anyway.

 

[carmen510]

Since this thread is about a monitor, I think it would be better if I used this instead of opening a new thread, I keep getting green pixels all over my screen, except when on the Internet. How do I get rid of them?

Monitor: Optiquest Q22wb