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My rubbish Lenovo laptop's display has a distinct blue tint. When I plug in an external monitor it's much better, closer to my iPad which is the ideal for me.
I was wondering if there is some way to calibrate the display to make it appear more like an iPad. Perhaps like a graphic equalizer for umm, graphics. Or an app or something that detects the values of say a Mac display and then maps those values onto your pound-shop Lenovo display.
Anyone? I'm guessing bad timing as all the IT bods have clocked off.
I'm using the Datacolor Spyder X pro across my PC and laptops. My MacBook pro was almost spot on when I used it on that, but my PC and Windows laptop, wow what a difference. Guess it is only of use if you are serious about your photos/video. But first place to start would be trying the built in screen calibration in Windows https://www.groovypost.com/howto/calibrate-monitor-color-display-windows-10/
Ahh, the Spyder, think I've heard about that. Is it a hardware thing?
I'm doing more and more graphics and video stuff so will likely get a Macbook Pro when this finally dies. Determined to get my money's worth though and rinse it, so lust needing a temporary solution. Thanks, will check the W10 settings.
Yes it is a USB device that you hang in the centre of your screen for the software with it to do the calibration. If you leave it plugged in by your pc/laptop it will also sense the ambient light and adjust the calibration based on that too.
That would be a great app for an iPhone wouldn’t it!
We have a Gretag one from years ago.
Have you used the built-in Windows colour calibration applet? Obviously won't be as accurate as using a puck, but should give you a significant improvement on where you are now. Its called something like 'calibrate display colour'.
(Just noticed Russel96's post - so yeah - exactly what he said)
Keep in mind that calibration (using Datacolour Spyder - I also use this) needs to be done in the place where you're working as the light temperature will differ depending on the ambient light in that location (and indeed that will change significantly over time, especially if you end up turning on a light at some point in your day).
Unless you are doing lots of client or critical photo/video work you don't really needs an external calibration tool (although they are nice to have), and your laptop should do it automatically; my Macbook Pro does it on the fly and I can sometimes see it changing if I move it slightly whilst it's sitting on my lap! Have a look in the display settings for something relating to colour 'temperature'.
The blue colour means your screen temperature has shifted colour temperature (the colour spectrum is counter intuitive - red is cool and blue is hot - think of it like stars where blue stars are hotter than red ones, but the settings on your monitor are reversed as they are designed to compensate for the external colour temperature, i.e. a lower value temperature will look hotter/bluer to compensate for a cooler/redder ambient light temperature).
Natural day light temperature is about 5000-5500k; if you're sitting in natural light then set your screen temp to about that and it should look right. ALternatively just move the slider to the value that you feel is right for you.
That would be a great app for an iPhone wouldn’t it!
Yes, because Apple tightly controls the hardware inside iPhone cameras and can quality-assure any outputs. Conversely, it'd be utterly useless as an Android app.
In fact, Apple TVs can be colour-calibrated using the camera on (certain models of) iPhone. https://www.macworld.com/article/344476/iphone-apple-tv-color-balance-calibration-how-to.html Whether it works well is another matter, reports are not too favourable if the TV is set up properly, but it probably helps get the calibration to 'ballpark' quite quickly.
As above, OP just needs to change colour temperature / tint to preference, they don't need professional calibration.
jambourgie
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My rubbish Lenovo laptop’s display has a distinct blue tint.
right click the desktop(if I mind right, been a while since I used windows) and go into your display/graphics settings, there will likely be sliders in there you can adjust for temp and rgb maybe, dependent on the graphics card/chip though how much adjustability there is.
I’m using the Datacolor Spyder...
Same here - 2 laptops & 2 desktop monitors.
It's just a lot easier than faffing around trying to adjust white point & colour balance by hand. You can also use it to calibrate screen and printer.