Identify Color Controls
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Usual Setting
Many displays will have Kelvin Presets. Some professional displays will also have RGB
Gain controls.
The Purpose of This Step
For the software to produce optimal results, it must be told what controls exist on your
display.
The Long Answer
Your display may have no color controls or it may have one or more of the following
types of controls. Monitor manufacturers label these in various ways: Color, RGB
Color, RGB Gain, RGB Balance, Color Temperature, ViewMatch Color, User Color,
Custom Color, Color Manager and others.
These controls are for setting the White Point in the display. Also known as Color
Temperature, this refers to the color of white. On a monitor, white is made up of Red,
Green and Blue; there are many RGB tones that can be seen as white, if they are the
lightest tone in your field of view. These are referred to as White Point, Color
Temperature or the color of white.
White Point is often specified in terms of degrees Kelvin. Common values are 5000K,
6500K and 9300K.
Kelvin Presets
If your monitor has a list of choices such as 5000K, 6500K and 9300K (and perhaps
others) then your monitor has a Color Temperature Preset control.