XL2411P 144hz Monitor Colour Profiles

[sampower111]

Hi, I am using the following website,

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/icc_profiles.htm

I am looking for profiles for my monitor but there are none for my specific monitor. can I use other XL series profiles instead? or would that mess up something?

thanks.

 

[10tacle]

It is generally not recommended to use different color calibration profiles for different models of even the same brand of monitor (or HDTV). This is because the manufacturer may have used a different panel between the two (one OEM panel maker may be Samsung, the other LG for example). Try and find reviews out there for your exact model and see what others find good for calibration settings. Keep in mind this is very subjective though and you may or may not like their preferences.

Case in point, a reviewer on Amazon:

So crisp! make sure you go into the Nvidia Control panel and set it to 144hz.

I did have to set up the display settings, this is what looks good to me.

Picture mode to "Standard" and tweaked the rest like brightness to 75, Contrast: 55, Low Blue Light: 6, Color Temp: Normal, Hue: 50, Color Vibrance: 10, AMA: High, Instant Mode: On, Sharpness: 7, Gamma: 5

When all else fails, buy an aftermarket monitor calibration tool like from X-Rite or Datacolor. IMO they are worth the investment since they can also be used for laptops and HDTV calibration and will last you for many years to come.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Personally I've never found manufacturer's monitor profiles to be satisfactory even though they were the correct ones for my monitors - - - so I never bother with them. No doubt it's a different story for the top-of-range monitors used by graphics professionals but that's out of my league.

Oh, and in a couple of cases the profiles were even corrupt as verified by trying to use them in Photoshop - - that's despite downloading them on three different computers in case one computer was causing the corruption.

I settled for creating my own monitor profiles with a spyder colorimeter kit from datacolor.