Nowadays, LCD, Plasma, CRT, Projector, more and more kinds of display is around the market. I am sure that everyone was dealing with different kinds of display before. BUT, different kind of display, or even different display from different company will have the different setting for the monitor. Brightness, Contrast, Color, Tint, Color temperature and even Backlight for laptop display. So how we know which setting is the proper setting to show the right colour from the monitor?

Well, 2 ways can determine this issue. First, simplest and easiest... our eyes but the problem will occur also. Different people has different judgment about the color. Something that you think it is in yellow but others may not to feel the same as you feel. So, to overcome this problem, calibration tool was came in to solve this problem.

But, thing is hardly to get perfect. Although the monitor calibration tool is based on the engineering concept to adjust the monitor setting to the best setting but machine is always not more than a machine. In the end of calibration, we still need our eyes to give a final touch to adjust the monitor to reach the so called ' best setting' for the monitor owner. Like our human eyes, the different tool also can give a very different adjustment, some will change your monitor setting become better but some will not.

I did my laptop monitor calibration few days ago because of my photography module. It is very important for us to do the editing in order to mix the color properly and take care of the color printing.

So, here I shows a sample about the before calibrating and after calibrating monitor performance:

Before calibrating....

After calibrating....

(I don't you can really notice any different from these pictures, but in fact the result of after the calibrating will slightly darker and not as yellowish than the before version. If you can't see any difference, it maybe caused by the web browser because of the color configuration maybe difference for different browser.)

Although the result of after calibrating cannot fully convince everyone, but it still very important for Visual engineer in order to get the right setting for the monitor, especially for photography to do the final color mixing before the printing process. It will make your photo go haywire if the monitor doesn't calibrate properly. Same go for the video industry.