| PROFILING
A MONITOR 2
The first part of the profiling process is to set the contrast
correctly.
When you click the 'Start' button i1Match goes into full-screen
mode and displays a single colour across the entire screen area.
This display then steps through a series of changes, which are
measured by the Eye-One. A small dialog is displayed in the top
right-hand corner of the screen indicating whether the contrast
is correctly set:
If the green arrow is not aligned with the black arrow then you
adjust the contrast until they are as close together as possible,
and click 'Stop' to return.
The next step is to adjust the brightness.
Again, when you click 'Start' i1Match goes into full screen mode
and steps through a series of changes. The dialog shows whether
the brightness is correctly set.
This time the process is slightly different. You set the brightness
to the value requested by i1Match and click the ‘Measure’ button;
i1Match then evaluates the setting and suggests a new value. This
process repeats several times until the green and black arrows
align. Clicking 'Stop' then returns you from full-screen mode.
The final step is to set the whitepoint. If you chose to use the
monitor’s native whitepoint or if your monitor only offers preset
colour temperatures then there’s nothing further to do.
If you specified a whitepoint and your monitor has RGB controls,
then i1Match once again goes into full-screen mode and steps through
a series of colour changes. The dialog appears showing the red,
green and blue levels your monitor is producing relative to those
needed to achieve the required colour temperature; you adjust
your monitor’s RGB controls until the red, green and blue arrows
align as closely as possible with their black equivalents, then
click 'Stop' to return.
Now that the monitor’s settings are optimised, i1Match starts
the profiling process by going into full-screen mode and running
through a series of colour changes. The dialog appears to show
the progress of this process.
Finally i1Match saves the resulting profile to the windows profile
directory and sets it as the default for your monitor.
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