Also... instead using monitor's physical buttons, use Dell Calibration Assistant software as the screenshot I showed to you from Photography Life review of that model. This will ensure that proper profile is used as OS default display profile. Dell Calibration Assistant will call through USB o DDC/CI the same calibration commands you use through monitor buttons AND create an ICC profile for that calibration target. There is no point using monitor firmware calibration buttons and require a manually asignment on OS later. Use the software.
Hi folks, Hoping someone can help me with this? I recently purchased a Dell UP2720Q monitor which has a built-in calibration device. Prior to this I had an LG monitor which I had to calibrate myself using an Xrite i1Display Pro. I think the Dell's built-in calibration has confused me a bit. I set sRGB to calibrate on Cal1 with WP:D65 , Gamma: 2.2. Lum: 125 cd/m2. These were the same settings I used to use with my i1Display Pro. Immediately I noticed a big color shift from what I was used to. The return from the Dell calibration was much cooler. I decided to run some prints from Lightroom after proofing them to the Ilford paper I was using. Previously I'd never had any issues in print color matching but now there's a quite noticeable redder tinge to yellows/oranges and it does not match what I'm seeing on my screen. So something is clearly off and I'm guessing it may be my understanding of how the Dell built-in color meter isa working. I've checked my monitor preferences and the 'Dell UP2720Q' profile is selected. I ran a test using my i1Display Pro on the Dell to create a profile and the one returned is much warmer than the one from the Dell color meter with the same settings, except I have the i1Display Pro set to 'Native'. So my question is, do I need to calibrate the monitor using the Dell color meter AND my i1Display Pro? In which case I presume I would set the Monitor profile in System Preferences to the one created by the i1Display Pro. Any help/guidance would be appreciated and please keep any replies in layman terms as I'm by no means a color expert and this is already bending my brain TIA! Dave
UP2720Q, problems with calibration