Monitor is properly set - So it works

Before you can calibrate the screen, you should be and preparing the appliance in order to achieve an optimal result.

• Above all, make sure the screen is clean, eye-catching scribblers can influence the perceived color.
• Also, you should adjust the light in the room. Avoid reflections, gloss, and generally direct light on the screen.
• Check the screen resolution. You use the native resolution of your screen. Windows recognizes this in the rule itself and recommends them to you. In addition, you can also read it directly in the instructions of your screen, what resolution you should use.
• To open the settings screen, right-click on the Desktop and choose in the newly opened menu select "screen resolution".
• You put the color depth to their Maximum, usually 32-bit. This depends on operating system, graphics card and the Monitor.
• Click in the setting window for the screen resolution in "Advanced settings". The color depth, you can adjust either in the "Monitor" tab, or your video card has an own management program, which can be reached in the rule on the corresponding tab.
• If you want to take it very carefully and, for example, edit images, you can print out a reference photo. In order to match the display later.
• You use a photo printer and photo paper, and print a test photo, the spectra of various color and brightness covers. Such test images provides, for example, the photo industry Association in the framework of DQ Tools available.
• Enter the screen after the Start 20 to 30 minutes to warm up. Otherwise you risk that the colors change in the course of use.

After you have prepared everything, it is now time to the actual calibration.

• Open the Windows start menu, the search window, or simultaneously press the [Windows] and the [S] key, to open in newer versions of Windows, the search directly.
• Enter "screen color calibration" and the Windows calibration Tool is suggested to you.
• Alternatively, you can also use a program such as the aforementioned DQ-Tool use.
• Follow the instructions on the screen and set the Gamma value, brightness, and contrast. You can also adjust color values.
• You finally compare the old with the new setting, and then save the Changes.

If you have your screen calibrated to have, we will tell you next is what you can do if the screen of your MacBook remains black.