Profiles for more than one display

[Alan Cooke]

Hope I explain this well enough.

I use my laptop with two external displays mostly and have calibrated using XRite for those two displays.  The laptop display in this instance is disabled.  This aspect of  my question is all good and needs no response/advice.  Where I do need help is with the following.

When I disconnect the two externals and use the laptop display the profiles are obviously incorrect so I need to calibrate for the laptop display when I am only using the laptop display.  How do I go about this without destroying the ‘default’ twin external display profiles.

In other words as I understand it I need two profiles – one for laptop display only and one for twin displays.

How do I do this?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Alan Cooke.

[Vincent]

By design “cloned” displays share profile, hence you need 2 profiles, one for the laptop, one for one of the external display.
“Extended” displays have their own profiles.

On external display (after choosing proper colorimeter correction if apply) use RGB gains in OSD to get desired white (usually d65) & brightness. Then do the same on 2nd external display and if tehy do not match try to match 2nd one visually tweaking RGB gains in a minimum way. If those display have some gamma preset try to make them match too.
After that calibrate & profile internal display and external display.

To switch/re assign profiles quickly when you change output use displaycal tray icon on windows, no need to realibrate.

[Alan Cooke]

Thanks for the reply!

My plan therefore is to disconnect the two external displays each with their own profile.  Then calibrate the laptop display and name that profile with a unique name.  Reason being is that one of the two externals is named xxxxx (Primary) which I assume would conflict with the laptop display in ‘alone mode’ being the primary.

Would this be the correct way to do this?

Thanks again

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Alan Cooke.

[Vincent]

The more arrcurate way is to plug 3 displays and use “extended display” for each 3, 3 diferent desktops, not “clone”. Then profile each one choosing that display on DIsplayCAL 1st tab.

If after calibration & profiling you unplug one display, just open DisplayCAL tray app and make sure that “default profile” for each display is the proper one. It’s that simple.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Vincent.

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