How To Calibrate Your Monitor

Many monitors don't have accurate colors out of the box. Fortunately, you can often correct this by calibrating your display. How do you do this, and do you necessarily need expensive hardware?

[rhythmocean]

Tried calibrating my grandpa's old tv now it's an 8k ultra wide

[MarioDragon]

Things like this make me glad I'm colorblind
I mean sure I can't be a police officer, fireman, do any special ops infantry in any military, be a pilot, probably shouldn't be an electrician, doubt many surgeons would be happy if I can't tell the blue body thing from the red body thing, can't drive in Australia... but I don't have to calibrate my monitors.

[ypyketo]

If i buy additional pixels how can i install them into my monitor?

[samtherat]

Linus looks like a ghost. Do I need to calibrate my monitor, or is he just that pasty?

[eideticex]

I've used Lagom's LCD test for a long time to calibrate my displays and it's surprising just how good you can get the color profiles if you work through the entire thing a couple times. Testing against a colorimeter, as long as your careful and have good eyes you can get it pretty close to your monitors optimal calibration. Having had to do this multiple times over on the same display, I highly suggest backing up your monitor's color profile if your monitor provides software to export and import settings or if you really have to write down the dialed in settings. While the display will degrade over time and require adjustments, it's a lot easier starting from your previous settings than factory defaults.

[TechXSoftware]

I see a day when monitors can auto calibrate based on your eye test results.

[SDMittens]

Shouldn't Monitor companies run a Calibration tool upon packing and having its own custom calibration settings built into it?

[TwitchFast]

I understand it's asking for a lot, but I would like to see a follow-up video concerning colour calibration hardware and how certain models perform at given price ranges.
I don't trust my eyesight for calibrating a display and as far as I'm concerned it's a worthy investment.

[sindweller]

I've just realized that the general quality of videos uploaded on Techquickie is way better than the quality of videos on LTT. And, as far as I know, Techquickie is supposed to be a side project. I honestly love this channel and the fact that the Techquickie team takes their time to make very informative and concise videos makes it even better.

[scheimong]

This is one of the more helpful techquickie videos recently. This topic hasn't received the coverage it deserves on Youtube.

[TnCh]

Oh yes!
I've been waiting a video like this for years, thank you.

[JDSPonYT]

It's funny that this episode is about calibration yet this video seemingly had none done to it as Linus looks like he is a zombie from some vintage film..

[tjarsun]

On Mac you can access the "expert" mode on calibration by holding the Option key (or Alt on non-Apple keyboards) and then clicking the "Calibrate" button.

[andrewcairney]

just moved to pc i would have never managed without you guys thanks

[iomatthew]

Linus, how would I do without you? Great tips for calibrating my monitor! Thank you!

[Sjoholm]

I really liked this video! As someone who has done a fair bit of calibration (being a graphic designer), it's not always easy to explain this stuff to people who have never heard of it. I do however wish you would have touched on the importance of ambient light and the colors in your surroundings. Nonetheless, great video!

[ultimakittygunn]

An unexpected surprise how-to video that I have recently been researching. Thanks!!

[gertjanvandermeij]

This is great ! i used method 4, and now my 3 monitor setup for my flightsim X-Plane 11, all look the same ! Thanks !

[mloicano]

Idea for a future video: television placement on wall in relation to position of viewer, and size of television in relation to distance from viewer. Thank you.

[spizzlo]

the profiles are especially valuable to us who have Korean monitors with no built-in menu settings. They saved me for sure.