Too much red on XPS15

Hi,

I got my new XPS15 yesterday and the screen seems to display colors a little off, specifically I think because there's too much red. When the webcam captures, my face is very pink too, I used it for Skype yesterday and noticed that and thought it could be the preview was off like everything else, but the other person told me that too. What could be the problem?

Thanks!

 

Does it have the high gamut AUO screen?

It may be your introduction to more colors

 

I was thinking the same thing, red is the color most lacking from traditional displays, so a high gamut display may seem red. After using it for a while normal displays may start to appear very blue (which they are).

Merstrom,

Schau mal deinen zweiten Satz an.

 

OK about the colors, but it just seems weird, when I see pictures people tend to look orange or pink...

What about the webcam thing, that can't be normal...

@seeker_moc:
Sorry I'm not even German, but living in Germany and writing in English is messing my head up and I'm using words from the wrong language

 

No problem, I'm American but my wife is German. We speak German at home, but I speak English at work. It gets confusing, I catch myself doing the same thing on occasion.

As far as the color mix goes, the only way to objectively tell for sure if there's something wrong with your display is to use a color measurement device, like a Spyder or Display One. You could also compare your display with a known calibrated one, if you have a calibrated display somewhere for comparison (most non-calibrated displays are too blue, which won't help you any in a comparison).

 

One way to get an idea if everything is really off is to hold a piece of paper in front of a screen showing mostly white--is there a red hue to the light reflecting off of the white paper?

 

If you want a quick way to decrease the "red" on the screen, go into your Control Panel, click Display, click Calibrate Color on the left, navigate until you find the RGB color balance adjustment screen, then drag the red (and possibly green) down until the screen looks better to you.

 

Have you tried using programs like Spyder 3 Pro?

 

Hi =)

I have the same problem, everything is too red ( B+RG LED 1080, AUO17ED)
I updated intel's drivers and now is better, but it's still a little red. Besides, I have some problems with cleartype, letters looks weird, without definition, they have some kind of chromatic aberration.
any idea?

 

Windows includes a ClearType tuner that lets you tune it just right. If you do the Color Calibration, it will also prompt you to do that at the end. So just type "calibrate" into the start menu and away you go! Or if you don't want to adjust the colors and just want to adjust ClearType, type "ClearType."

 

I have used it, but I can't find any good setup. When I run the tuner, letter looks almost fine, but if i go to a web like Facebook, letters looks strange, maybe because they are too small, I don't know.

sorry for my bad english :$

 

Hey folks...this is going to keep popping up here as wide gamut displays are still pretty uncommon on laptops. The oversaturation has nothing to do with drivers and it's not a symptom of a "problem" - it's what happens when software vendors don't keep up with hardware advancements. There is only one true fix, and that is to use only properly color managed software. Problem is, not much exists.

What is happening is this - say your software wants to display pure red. A numeric 255,0,0 is sent to your display because the non color managed app assumes (incorrectly) that your display is sRGB. Since the wide gamut display is capable of showing much more red than a standard display, the color ends up oversaturated. With a proper display profile and a color managed application, the software would be able to adjust that 255,0,0 to show the color properly, say for example something like 240,0,0.

That said, how you deal with it depends on whether color accuracy is important to you or not. Any of the tweaks or "by eye" adjustments previously mentioned are fine for the casual user - play until it looks pleasing. There's a profile linked somewhere here, i think in the first post of the "L502X Lounge" thread. It's a pretty good profile, and if you load it then Firefox and Chrome can do fairly good color management. You'll have to enable it for each browser, but it fixes it so it's probably worth it. IE still pretty much sucks...

Photographers, videographers, and graphics folks already know they need to profile the displays, and their software tools are (mostly) color managed. Sure, my desktop is a little extra colorful...but photos look sweet!

 

A really cheap quck way of adjusting your display to correct for oversaturation is to open a few professsional HDR photos. This will tell you how far off your colors are. (It will also show you how much better your display is than standard ones). My settings were close enough from the factory. I don't do enough photoshop to worry about fine tuning unless I'll be printing it.

 

how do I enable the profile in each browse? I tried changing color profile in Color Managment menu in W7, but the profile that is in "L502X Longue" thread looks really bad, blue looks like green. Maybe I did something wrong, but i dont know what.
I have tried to adjust the color settings using the "Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel" but is hard to get good colors.

 

Double post.