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Please forgive my ignorance; after many hours of sifting through this forum, googling, and watching youtube videos I’m still at a loss, and so I’m praying the experts here will take pity and set me straight.
I’m a designer by trade, working with both print and digital media, so color accuracy is fairly important for me. Generally speaking I just want to get the most out of my monitor while also being pretty confident that the colors I’m seeing on screen are close enough to how others will see them when printed or displayed online (I know with anything digital/web, it is what it is). I primarily use my Dell monitor for all design work (I use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign on a daily basis). So having colors accurate in Adobe apps is most critical but I’d like the rest of my apps to appear fairly “accurate” as well if possible.
If someone could walk me through how best to calibrate my Dell using my Calibrite Display Pro HL and DisplayCal I’d be extremely grateful! (note: I’m not concerned about 100% perfect spot-on calibration)
- My hardware:
- 2021 M1 Macbook Pro 16”
- Dell U2723QE (connected via USB-C)
- Calibrite Display Pro HL
- Settings/software:
- MacOS: (Sequoia 15.7.5)
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- Current Dell color profile: “DELL U2723QE” (default created by Mac)
- Other available profiles downloaded via Dell’s site: D6500 DCI-P3_v2, D6500 HDR_v4, D6500 Native_v2, D6500 Rec709_v2, D6500 sRGB_v2
- Dell resolution: “looks like” 1920×1080
- MacOS: (Sequoia 15.7.5)
- Dell U2723QE
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- Firmware: M2T105
- Brightness: 90% (my office gets a lot of sunlight, would like to not go too much lower unless it’s really critical)
- Contrast: 75%
- Color preset mode: Custom color RGB: 100, 94, 91 (Adjusted these while calibrating with DisplayCal)
- Input color: RGB
- Smart HDR: off
- USB prioritization: off
- DisplayCal
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- version : 3.9.17 (installed via https://github.com/eoyilmaz/displaycal-py3/releases)
- Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign
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- Synchronized color management via Adobe Bridge, set to North America General Purpose 2
- All are latest versions
- Things I’ve tried:
- Using Dell Color Management app + Display Pro to create color profiles for both sRGB and “Standard” preset modes > these seemed weird/inaccurate to me
- Using DisplayCal + Display Pro to calibrate the Dell and create profiles. I definitely used some really incorrect settings at first before correcting per posts read on this forum. For my latest attempt, see attached screenshots for DisplayCal settings
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- During latest attempt, ran calibration and balanced white point with Dell OSD, setting RGB to 100, 94, 91
- Still was not confident in the profile generated by latest attempt
- Misc questions:
- Am I overthinking this and going against the grain of limited color management settings in MacOS? Should I just calibrate the Dell’s white point with DisplayCal, then use either default Mac profile or the D6500 Native_v2 profile?
- I know this Dell isn’t capable of “true 10 bit” color, but it seems that to enable it using its version of 10 bit, I’d need to enable Smart HDR. Would there be any benefit to enabling Smart HDR in the Dell OSD? If so, should I then either enable or disable HDR in Mac settings? I noticed that only when I enable it via OSD do I then get the option to turn on/off in Mac settings. I check via Terminal commands and it seems the Mac is only sending 8 bit color to the Dell.
- Before running DisplayCal calibration, does it matter which color profile the Dell is set to in Mac settings? If so, which should I use? I can’t remember but I think I started with different profiles for a couple calibration attempts and the resulting profiles/calibration were different.
- Once I tweak RGB in Dell OSD, do I then need to do something to force the Mac to generate an updated default profile?
- In DisplayCal settings:
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- Does it matter which “Settings” option I select from the dropdown at the top? If so, what should i select?
- Should I use LCD PFS Phosphr WLED IPS, 94% P3 correction? Or one of the corrections from here?
- Black point compensation: saw some comments regarding this on here but am still unsure what to make of this. When I run calibration, DisplayCal gives a warning recommending that I enable this
- What’s the simplest and/or best method to verify the accuracy of any profiles?
Calibrite Display Pro HL on Amazon Calibrite Display SL on Amazon
Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Using Dell Color Management app + Display Pro to create color profiles for both sRGB and “Standard” preset modes > these seemed weird/inaccurate to me
why?
Also regardless of OS, while color managed, display preset/OSD mode and profile cannot go unparied and most apps (excluding macOS desktop) only read display profile on app startup.
So you cannot change OSD preset from Custom (near P3 gamut) to sRGB while in a color managed app and expect to be accurate. Change profile first to the file wit matching OSD preset and then restart app (like Photoshop)I just calibrate the Dell’s white point with DisplayCal, then use either default Mac profile or the D6500 Native_v2 profile?
Jut just white but also greyscale, if it was not very good. Then use DisplayCAL generated ICC prfile with native gamut and grey calibration (VCGT stored inside profile, loaded into GPU).
Should I use LCD PFS Phosphr WLED IPS, 94% P3 correction?
This is the typical backlight fro muntimedia P3 displays. So without knowing the specific backlight tech of that delel, seems a reasonable choice.
Note: calibration speed high is not recommended if your display has any slight grey tint on grayscale. Medium seems the safe start point fro a display of unknown quality control, some may need slow speed. That’s the cool thing about ArgyllCMS, being able to correct grayscale of troublesome displays. IDNK how good is your grey ramp out of the box, but medium whould be my default recommendation.
- My hardware:
