Calibrate Your Monitor like a PRO: Step-by-Step guide | Match colors to your laptop, tablet or phone

In this video, I will show you how to calibrate your monitor for a more accurate color reproduction.
With just your monitor, another screen (tablet, smartphone etc.) for reference, and your eyes, you can noticeably improve the look.
Video includes tips on adjusting brightness, color saturation, contrast, white balance and gamma.
This video should also be perfect for anyone who wants to match the colors of their multiple monitors (or a monitor and a laptop).

My Samsung M8 settings:
Brightness: 50
Contrast: 50
Sharpness: 8
Colour: 27
Tint: 0
Preset: Graphic

Contrast enhancer: Off
Colour tone: Standard
Gamma: BT 1886 -3
Shadow detail: -1
Color space: Native
Dynamic brightness: Off

White balance:
R gain -16
G gain 0
B gain +6
R offset -5
G offset 0
B offset+5

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Requirements
01:45 - Reference screen
02:28 - Initial setup
04:10 - Select monitor mode
04:49 - Pre-adjusting saturation and contrast
05:10 - White balance
06:57 - Take a break
07:11 - Saturation
07:39 - Contrast
08:27 - Gamma

[charlesbrewer]

Why are some of you "PROS" giving this man such a hard time. I have read some comments. And hey this is for free. You don't have to buy any hardware for a lot of money. Then guess how to use it. If the way MR: Borodenko makes your monitor look different. And you don't like it. You can always set it to "DEFAULT" and your right back where you started. So give the man his props.

[wwloyd]

you're a lifesaver! I just bought M8 to use with my mac m1 pro and when it arrived today I was shocked of the washed out colors and uncalibrated settings. This video saved my life, it's such a luck that you posted this video 20 hours ago... rly incredible timing thank you!!!! <3

[AkshayKhurana]

For the Samsung M8, switch the picture settings to Natural, not Standard. The white balance settings and all other settings work fine. I shifted by 1 or 2 points at most for my own liking..

[zaizenFPS]

wanted to calibrate my monitor for accurate colors but unfortunately i am missing the eyes part of the requirement, any recommendations for where i can buy new ones?

[ReginaldoKono]

Thank you very much to sharing your adjustments, specially for the M8. I just bought the M8 to use it with my MacBook M3 PRO, so your instructions will help me a lot.

[Illuvatark]

Great video!! Thanks!!! Gonna buy a new monitor soon. This will be very helpful

[diyachyy]

This was extremely helpful. Thank you for your video.

[SaurabhKartik]

white balance option is not available in h24fw

[raulcv]

Now M8 monitor looks better with my Macbook connected with USB PD cable. Thank you!!!

[Bookofwords]

My monitor doesn't have show the sRBG % anywhere lol... AOC CU34G2X/BK Wide Quad HD 34" Curved VA Gaming Monitor

[aymen.d]

i got this ips monitor its 100%srbg 91dci p3 but i didn't lile the clolors at all its like yellow or smt not white i tried to use w10 coloration it was a bit better not yellow anymore but still colors looks wrong tbh only hdr content looks good everything else like games ect some looks green some looks just wrong

[gmpoitras]

I just got this monitor (pretty late to the game I know) this video really helped! However, it seems like the settings reset all of the time, like when I put my Mac to sleep. Anyone solve for that?

[sandrvoxon]

I’m planing to buy this monitor. What you can say about it ? Working with mac, text is blurry ? Or better to take 27 inch ?

[sunlit]

Pros never calibrate their monitors like that, they use hardware calibration tools. Even pros with super excellent background in color critical jobs NEVER trust their eye to calibrate - this is simply not possible. Advising amateurs to do it by just judging picture with their eyes is inviting a complete failure of calibration.