Calibration without a colorimeter?

Can I? I would love to have access to the options & go by what looks best for me?

The way we used to prefer setting up TV colour balance was to have the set in (or near) a window on an overcast day, use a monochrome image and adjust colour balance to match that*.

If you have a camera where you can completely disable auto white balance, and set it specifically for Daylight conditions, you could take a photo and look at the RGB values; there might even be online resources to determine colour balance and monitor calibration which you can upload the images to, in this case.

*We couldn’t afford that sort of specialist kit in our shop!

Any good videos online? Like I know it isn’t right, the image at the top of the forum should be pine green right? it isn’t? So are the create post buttons right?

I have DisplayCal now, I am needing a video on how to use it. Yes, it would be nice if I could find a way to take unfiltered pics with my phone (Android).

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They’re the same color. :man_shrugging:

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So, no??? Still DisplayCal, how do I use it, I see no adjustment sliders?

What’s pine green meant to look like? Don’t try to answer that, there’s no way to do so over the internet.

Colour is a really tricky thing, the same colour can look different when put beside different colours. Then of course lighting also affects the perceived colour.

You can’t always get the same colour from different paint manufacturers to match, even if they’re aiming for the same colour. In fact if you use more than one tin of paint of the same colour from the same manufacturer, you’re meant to mix them so it’s consistent.

I have 3 monitors and the colours are different on each one. If it looks green then it’s probably close enough.

If you want to play about with the settings then do so until it looks right to you.


As for DisplayCal (assuming we’re talking about the same thing) it requires a calibration device aka colorimeter, because that’s how you calibrate the colour on monitors, etc.

Do you have a colorimeter?

Calibrate and characterize your display devices using one of many supported measurement instruments, with support for multi-display setups and a variety of available options for advanced users, such as verification and reporting functionality to evaluate ICC profiles and display devices, creating video 3D LUTs, as well as optional CIECAM02 gamut mapping to take into account varying viewing conditions.

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@Edward78 Please don’t create new threads about the same subject. I’ve merged them. :wink:

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