ATI LCD color adjustment tips...

Hi all,

For a "multimedia" laptop, the LW70's (and probably LG laptops) LCD color balance is absolutley shocking.

Compare it next to a good PC LCD monitor and youll see what i mean.

To fix this, i used the ATI color control panel to change the red/green/blue brightness, contrast and gamma levels.

These are the settings i now use (gamma, brightness, contrast in that order):
Red: 1.00, 0, 100
Green: 1.10, 0, 80
Blue: 1.00, 5, 36

Blue is the real problem with these LCDs... its far too bright and is not linear.

With these settings windows will look like it has a shade of red compared to defualt levels, but compare it with a good LCD and youll see its much better.

Doing this also fixed the eye-strain problems i was having.

Let me know what you guys think!

 

These color settings are quite interesting.
I've been having some eyestrain problems with my ASUS M6Ne, so I decided to give your color settings a try.

I must admit... they are quite nice. I'll try them out for a while longer and see how they work...

Good work.

 

MWP-
I must admit i didnt like the colour change at first but i've gotten use to it now and yeah Great! I'm all for it. should have posted this in the Hardware section of the forum. good work MWP!

 

Thanks guys
Good to see you like it also.

The main reason i went to the trouble of doing this is because i do photographic work on this Laptop (ie, editing photos taken with my digital camera).

 

I had never noticed how blue my screen was before this! WOW
I like my screen colors to be tending a bit towards cooler tones, but this is too much, I knew my screen was bluish but not that much!

But I think these settings make the white a bit yellowish on my screen. How did you do the calibration? I think if I tweak your settings a bit I can end up with a correct spectrum.

[EDIT]: 2 observations after using the new settings for a few minutes:
1- I noticed that my lateral/horizontal viewing angle has decreased. The colors on the farther edge of the screen turn yellowish at a smaller angle now.

2- I now feel the need to increase my screen my brightness. Used to work at 5/8, now I am using 6/8 to get the same relative brightness.

Anyone with simillar observations?

My screen aint that perfect afterall

 

Doesn't work for me!!!

ATI tray tools keeps locking up my notebook

 

I did it with the regular color control that comes by default with the drivers. Does ATI tray tools disable it?

Are you using regular or modified drivers? Might wanna try Omega (I use them but don't install the tray tools)

 

I'm using Omega..

The Tray tools always freeze up my laptop..

The only reason I used Omega was the stock drivers did the same thing, locks up the laptop

edit: Actually it works now after getting 5.9 but I get errors when I use Ati Tray tools, EVEN THOUGH ITS on, and shown in the bottom right. I can't left click it because it will give me a error popup but I can right click it though...

It just stopped working now....hmm..

edit2: It doesnt work for me, some reason it gets worse..

 

You mean the colors look worse? I took the liberty of removing your extra post

BTW I have been using the these setting for a few hours now. Working with text. It all looks nicer. I never had any eye strain problems before, so no improvement there.
I gotta try these new settings with movies and games later on. But I still think its just a little bit to yellowish now .. maybe some more tweaking!

Forgot to thank you MWP earlier, so here it goes, thank you

 

I also agree that I have to turn the brightness up a little more...but by doing so, the brightness doesn't hurt my eyes as much as it used to (blue is harsh against the eyes and causes eye strain...)
Overall I'm quite satisfied with these color settings.

 

Where do you adjust it, it could be I'm adjusting it in the wrong place...

Since contrast only goes up to -40 to 40 here...and nowhere near that 100

 

I am doing it from the advanced options in the display menu (the one you get to from the control panel), I have a "color" tab, not sure if that would disappear/become disabled, when you install the tray tools. As I mentioned before I am using the Omegas but I deselected tray tools on install.

 

Ooohhh found it LOL!

Hmmm it looks weird...

 

It does look a little weird at first, but once you get used to it, it looks quite nice...

 

After 5~ months of this settings, I can say, I can't go back. My retinas burn when under the old settings. For some reason it reset so I had to dig for this thread!

Someone sticky this!!

In the guides even!

 

i was in wrong place too... now is good. even in this not too good screen. Great post. Can anyone tell were i can find this type of config for crt monitors? sorry is a little of topic but i need to know how can i config my two crt monitors....
thx

 

i tried it, dont like it. i like my lcd super blinding bright.

 

These are pretty good settings. Most LCD displays today come set to a very blue color temperature, around 10,000k or so. But most photography and television studios, if I'm not mistaken, use 6500k as a reference point (which refers to a very spcific kind of white).

 

I should also mention, that if you want to use these settings for video clips, make sure you're not using video overlay mode, because overlay will use still be using the "default" color scheme and it will still be very blue.

In order to have these warm color schemes applied to videos, you must use a player that supports vmr7/vmr9, like media player classic.

 

I agree, this guide should be somewhere that more people can see it...

I've been using these settings on my z70va for a few weeks and it has helped tremendously with eye strain.
And I thought it was the tiny text!

Thanks!

 

Hello all, started using these settings on my new Z70Va and love them. However, I want to know how to get ATI Tray Tools to stop loading the default settings and requiring me to go into the advanced menu in display settings to get the colors set again. Thanks in advance.

 

You have to install the ATI Catalyst drivers, once you do, in the start bar, under programs, there should be a Catalyst Control Center folder and a program by the same name, run that and it'll be a breeze from there!

 

Stickied

 

These settings do not apply do Intel graphics chip. Does anyone have recommended settings for other than ATI chips?

 

I'd like to know myself. I'm currently playing around with the RivaTuner color correction. If anyone else with intel graphics is using RivaTuner and has come out with some good color settings using the blue,green,red please post the settings. Or, if there's any other utility you're using sucessfully please post it. Thanks

 

I don't notice that on mine, but that could be a number of things... older model, not the glossy screen, or perhaps the linux drivers are different ?

 

I tried the settings.. they are ok. But i prefer the defaults lol. These ones become abit too yellow orange-ish, like a sunset [on my screen anyways]

Good post tho.

 

Umm.. can someone explain how I can do this on my Nvidia control panel?

There's no way I can adjust the brightness to below 40% (contrast limited to 30%) .... if I try put all those at 30% and 40%, I can't see a thing on the screen.... and the gamma correction seem to have default values in the slider, the closest I can get is 1.16 ...

 

Hi

I have a T1 and will run my colourvision Spyder on it when I get home and let you know how it goes. It works well on my desktop LCD.

Berni

 

Hi

I used the Colorvision Spyder (Colourplus) on the T1 and the screen is much better now. It was not until I did the before and after comparison that I could see how far out it was. Much too blue and very little contrast.

Berni

 

berni29, could you post your color settings? Thanks very much!

 

Hi

I have the intel chipset, and am not sure where to find the settings that you are talking about. Any giudance appreciated.

Berni

 

i'm trying to calibrate my lg e300, but i'm having a bit of trouble. my biggest complaint is that the white is yellowish. how should i go about fixing this? i've played around with the brightness/contrast/gamma settings with ati tray tools, but i'm not getting anywhere.

thanks!