Need help calibrating my new monitor

[thecoffeeguy]

So I picked up an ASUS 24" monitor to replace my 19" monitor and I want to calibrate this thing properly (never calibrated a monitor in the past).

Anyway, monitor is used for surfing, email and A LOT of gaming.

Are there any free tools to help calibrate a monitor?
Would like very good color and fonts to be sharp when reading. I also dont want the monitor to bright. I have noticed that is a little bright when I am viewing something with a white background.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

TCG

 

[kamikazekyle]

Outside of a hardware calibrator, your options are a bit limited. Windows 7 has some pretty useful built-in calibration tools. There's one for monitor color/color temp/brightness/contrast, and the Cleartype tuner for fonts. You can also find some calibration images/websites out there. But in the end, they're all of the nature "match the picture to the description in words" bit. Unless you *need* color accuracy, those tools/websites should be more than sufficent.

Assuming you're comfortable with the brightness of everything else, adjust the contrast and saturation settings to help bring some of the whites under control. Changing the color temps should help as well since changes in whites are some of the more noticable effects of varying color temps.

 

[thecoffeeguy]

Outside of a hardware calibrator, your options are a bit limited. Windows 7 has some pretty useful built-in calibration tools. There's one for monitor color/color temp/brightness/contrast, and the Cleartype tuner for fonts. You can also find some calibration images/websites out there. But in the end, they're all of the nature "match the picture to the description in words" bit. Unless you *need* color accuracy, those tools/websites should be more than sufficent.

Assuming you're comfortable with the brightness of everything else, adjust the contrast and saturation settings to help bring some of the whites under control. Changing the color temps should help as well since changes in whites are some of the more noticable effects of varying color temps.

Thanks. I appreciate it.
Any online places that can help with that? Walkthroughs or something?

Thx

 

[mosox]

What Asus, LS246H, MS246H, VE?
http://linkuri.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/lcd-monitor-calibration/

 

[thecoffeeguy]

What Asus, LS246H, MS246H, VE?
http://linkuri.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/lcd-monitor-calibration/

its a VH242H (so 23.6" monitor...)

I will look at that link.

Thx