Is Your Monitor Color Blind? Calibrate Your Monitor’s Color

When most people buy a computer, the first thing they do is install applications and connect to the internet. Nevertheless an important step, particularly for designers, often gets overlooked: monitor color calibration.

Have you ever noticed a picture that didn’t look quite right or a website where some of the colors looked flat and blended together? It may have something to do with your monitor’s color settings. Here is how to fix it:

Grab a pure white piece of paper and put it over half of your monitor. Find a place on your screen (a blank Word document, a web page with a white background, or a blank Paint document) and see how the white of your monitor compares to the sheet of paper. If you notice any hints of color, your monitor is incorrectly calibrated.

Now I fully intended on writing my own color calibration tutorial, but J.L. Morton of Color Matters has an excellent guide already written with detailed information for users with more questions and deserves credit for his great article. Morton walks you through finding your monitor’s gamma, black and white value scale, and color consistency. Hit up the link above to follow his tutorial and get your monitor correctly calibrated!

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