My new laptop screen shades seem to be off, not sure if my old laptop was off or my new colors are off?

[fezz4734]

So I recently bought a new gaming laptop with a 960m card in it, I'm happy about it, but as soon as I finish installing one game I usually play, the colors seem to be off, not all, but just the blue ones, like the blue colors seem to have green shades, so I thought if my old 2 laptops colors are off or is it this one, so I don't know what to do I tried for hours adjusting colors, contrast, saturation, but nothing really does the trick, don't get me wrong nothing looks weird when playing games or plays badly it's just a hint of green darker on blue lol, one simple test I can have some people do is go to deviant art, and can you please tell me if you see the color of the background as blue or green? This is also my first laptop with resolution of 1920x1k something so it's pretty high and wasn't use to crisp words and letters, everything was almost off for me lol.

Edit: Oh also this is new so it has installed windows 10, not sure what I can do about this color mixture, maybe I can post a picture depending on the color people see on deviant art background

 

[Solandri]

Trying to adjust colors by eye is pretty much a lost cause, because your brain is great at adjusting any colors it sees and averaging them out so they appear white. That's why sunlight (white), fluorescent lights (green), and incandescent lights (orange) all appear white. Posting a picture or screenshot is useless. Your camera will auto-adjust the white balance in the picture, and the screenshot is what the image looks like before it reaches your screen.

If you really want correct colors, you need something called a colorimeter or spectrophotometer. The latter costs as much as a car so you're unlikely to find someone with one. But if you have any friends who are graphics artists or do photo or video work, they're likely to have a colorimeter. Ask if you can borrow it or if they're willing to calibrate your laptop screen.

Using a colorimeter, you can generate a color profile which will adjust Windows' display so that the colors are correct on your screen. However, using a full-screen app like a game usually disables any color profile. On external monitors which let you adjust red, green, and blue brightness, you can usually use a colorimeter to adjust the white point to a standard value like 6500K. Nvidia's graphics adjustment settings lets you tweak the RGB gamma curves on some laptops (but not all - still haven't figured out why some have it and some don't). If yours has it, that would be perfect for adjusting the white point.

 

[fezz4734]

Oh gosh that sounds like a lot of work, sounds like I'm practically stuck with this color scheme, which I'm not even sure is wrong actually, I will check Nvidia settings