Question about color calibration taking way longer than expected

I spent about 6 hours last weekend trying to get my monitor and tablet colors to match for a digital piece I was working on. Finally figured out I had the wrong gamma setting in my display software the whole time. Has anyone else burned a full afternoon on something this simple?

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simon_coleman2d ago

My first real battle with color accuracy was back when I had a Dell U2412M monitor. I must have spent 3 hours one Saturday tweaking the RGB sliders in the NVIDIA control panel, convinced I was getting closer to neutral grays. Turned out the monitor itself had a factory reset option I hadn't touched, which basically undid all my manual tweaks. Your mileage may vary, but I think those gamma settings are the sneakiest culprits. They're hidden in so many different places now. I still keep a little note on my desk for the order I check things in now.

grace_hunt841d ago

Oh man, the factory reset thing gets me every time too? I had a similar thing with an Acer monitor once where I spent like two hours calibrating it with Spyder software only to realize the monitor's own "dynamic contrast" setting was still on, messing everything up. What finally worked for me was turning off every single "enhancement" option in the monitor menu first, then doing the RGB tweaks last. I also started using Windows' built-in calibration tool before touching the GPU settings, just so I had a baseline I could reset to if things got weird.