I just received two Dell UltraSharp 24 U2415 monitors, which proudly boast "Award winning monitor with unbeatable color".
I am hooking these two up to a single laptop, an ASUS GL551K running Windows 10. One of them is via the provided Mini DisplayPort cable, the other through an HDMI cable to HDMI input on the monitor.
The problem is they both look bad. The whites are yellow, and as someone who stares at a sea of code all day, none of the colors look familiar.
They look fine on the laptop, nice bright whites, but both of the Dells are no good. I hooked it up to a Mac and it looks a lot better on that side.
To make a long story short, I have tried all of the following, and am unable to get a pure "white" color on either of these two monitors:
- Use in-monitor menu system to reset every option back to "factory defaults"
- Went into Color Calibration in Windows 10 and remove any pre-set profiles there, whether my own or Dell's
- Ran monitor calibration, and it looks fine for gamma, contrast, and gray
- Manually adjusted the RGB sliders to attempt to get a whiter white, but as close as I can get, it is not white. It looks like faded paper.
I highly doubt that I could get delivered two top-selling 24" monitors and both of them have a problem, so I'd just like to know how to adjust this. I went through other tutorials step-by-step, and so far, no luck.
I understand there are a whole host of "taking a photo of screens" when it comes to color calibration, but this is what I see … close enough, anyway:
Thanks!
Best Answer
Your current monitors might be 'wrong' and your previous monitors were calibrated against a different colour temperature.
I had the very same issue in the past with my first colour calibrated, IPS display, and once I got to used to it everything else seems too blue.
"as someone who stares at a sea of code all day" - as opposed to photos and images. The 'classic' colour temperature is 50K and many photographers and image professionals prefer that. Most computer monitors seem to be at 65K, which is bluer and there's a lot of folks who claim its more fatiguing, or downright claim its bad for you.
You might want to adjust your colour caliberation to a different temperature - on lesser monitors this would be called 'cool' or roughly about 65K if that's an option.
I'd add though, many folks who make the switch feel this way at first. After a few weeks, you might decide that normal monitors are too blue. My recommendation is to play with colour temperature settings then give the default temperature settings a week or two for you to get used to it