Studio XPS 16 1080p RGBLED Settings?

I see "Avivo Video" but not "Avivo Color." I also do not see any "Hue" setting. Where is it? Thanks.

 

I know this question has been asked before and this isn't the right topic for this question but I cant find the answer. Does anyone know how to get windows 7 to dim the display on the RGB led?

Thanks and sorry to hijack your thread

 

in control panel under power options you should see a slider towards the bottom of the page. Or you can use the FN (Key) + the dimmer option on the keyboard.

 

Finally got my Blue Eyes Proof Ed. I'm attaching my ICCv4 profile. Let me know how this one looks for everyone.

 

Here is another profile that got slightly better validation results.

 

Very nice profiles.

I think I prefer the first one. They both have a cooler white balance so reduce screen brightness slightly but they are bang on colour accuracy to my eyes.

Can you try creating a profile whilst keeping the default white balance of the screen?

Thank you for posting +rep!

 

Thanks!.

Since ICCv4 is not compatible with Firefox, would you mind posting an ICCv2 version?

 

For some reason i see a huge difference between a picture
on my desktop (installed as a background) and when i open the same pictue with windows Live Photo Gallery.

Is this suppose to be like this and is the desktop not colormanaged and WLPG is?

 

Mine doesn't have that. I know it supposed to be there my M1530 would do it but this one wont. Using the FN key works but I would like windows to do it automatically.

 

how do i install these icc files? im using firefox but i have google chrome too

 

Must say these profiles are much much better than the ones
coming form the Spyder.
Thank you for the effort.

Hopefully they will fix the bug in FF so that we can use the v4
profiles with this.

 

how does this get installed lowlands?

 

Here you go.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5633436&postcount=422

 

amazing thanks!

 

ekkk how do i revert back to whatever defauklt? way to "cool" for me.. too blue/purple to me

 

I still prefer the Spyder2express one, one of the oldest over here. May be it's a matter of getting used to it, dunno. But these latest from GrantGochnauer look very dim and oversaturated in magenta. Thanks for trying, anyway!

 

I'll answer my own query raised re whether rgb panel is 18 or 24 bit (true color). I received my rgb xps 1645 today. There is clearly banding visible on the gradient test at www.lagom.nl test site. Hence this is 18bit. This explains why color accuracy observed (delta E) by anandtech review is not great. 262k colors over a wider gamut, means larger steps between "adjacent" colors. My primary interest is photography, so i'll probably swap the xps1645 for the studio 1737 with rgb (its reportedly 24 bit)

 

Guys, here's the solution for the RGBLED problem...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=453721

 

Hi everyone.

I have my laptop for a couple weeks now and i was just watching Batman Returns trailer in HD 1080p (youtube) on my rgbled screen and 2 minutes in to the trailer, the screen all of a sudden went all pink/purple and i had to put it to sleep for it to get back to normal.

Any ideas why it done that?

 

like this?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5710183&postcount=2117

 

you r right...everything is so small? is there anyway i can set the icon like normal other laptop?

 

I work on a Studio xps1645 with windows 7, 64 bit. Its a european buy-dont know if that matters.

Thanks for all the much needed help you people provide in this thread! Yesterday I thought my eyes weere bleeding looking at my new screen - but after a day of fiddling with all the profiles and the ccc and the color settings in Photoshop I managed to get a solution that lookes pretty fine to me. As a graphic-designer my main concern is prepress work:This is a to-do for newbies like me, that I worked out with the help of many different posts in this forum- if I misrepresent anthing please do correct me:

1. Set windows folder options to show all known extensions. You need to untick an option called "hide known file extensions" or something along that line, my system is german (easiest way to find them: just type folder options into the search under the windows-Icon in the bottom left of your screen )

2. Download all the interesting looking profiles posted in this forum (find some on pages 8,
28,25 (Post 245, its the one I ended up using like most others),29, 36,37 etc.

3. Delete the .txt file extensions, so you are left with a icc or an icm. To load them into the appropriate Folder in windows 7 you just have to double-click them one after the other.

4. Open Advanced Color Management Settings (just do a search for "color" and it'll come up... the super search function on windows 7 is a real time saver)

5. Tick the box for using your own profile and then load the new profiles into the box with the ICC-Profiles (use the buttons underneath that box)

6. Open a relevant file(s) on your screen in a relevant Program. In my case something I had printed in offset in Photoshop + Firefox and my webpage because I know exactly what it should look like.

8. Find something to compare the screen colors to in daylight (In my case an offset-printed sample of the file mentioned above and my old laptop-screen which was calibrated for me by a nice person in a printers I used to work with)

7. Go back to your Color Management interface and try the different profiles by first clicking and then set as default

8. Adjust the brightness of your screen by using the fn and brightness buttons on your keyboard accordingly.

9. Firefox doesnt seem to do anything with ICC Profiles by default. So you have to tell it to.
- Do that by writing about:config where you normally write the address of a page (i.e. www.google.com) (it then cutely asks you to be careful and you say promise)
- Write Color into the "Filter" bar
and find an option called gfx.color_management.mode and set it to 1. Restart firefox.
That fixes it - but only for some profiles that use the right format. (Read more on Page 36-37)

10. For Photoshop users (in Europe) only:
- Open your Color settings in Photoshop and set them to
RGB: AppleRGB
CMYK: ISO Coated v2 (ECI) You can download several profiles for printing from http://www.eci.org/doku.php?id=en:start
Gray Gamma 2.2
Dot Grain 10%
Colormanagement Policies all off
Conversion Engine ACE
Intent Relative
(I dont know that much about colormanagement, these are the Values I got from an Offset-Printer, they work fine for me)
Then because of the extraordinary brightness of our dell screen I do the following:
-Desaturate Monitor Colors by 20%.
11. For Non PSD Users
If you dont use PSD you can also desaturate the Monitor with the Interface for your graphics card. (ATI Catalyst Control Center...find it by searching ccc and choose advanced options)
-click "graphic" in the top left and chose desktops and displays (Desktops &Anzeigen)
-right click the little laptop icon that appears in the bottom left and choose configure
- chose the tab for color and adjust hue and brightness. this works independently of the ICC Profiles

12 Finally here is what I ended up with.
The Profile: Spyder2Expressver2.icm (Post 245)
Brightness 40% (on the brightness slider 6 steps from the left-should equal 40 % brightness as 15 Steps are 100% .. ) The Screen flickers under 60%brightness, so I only turn it down for finetuning colours for prepress.
I was tempted to use the ATI-CCC to tweak the hue, but it wasnt exact enough for me to change all my colours for the better. So I didnt use it in the end. Might be worth a try though. All the screens seem to be a little different or all our tastes?

I will do a big printing job on this in the next couple of weeks...will let you know how it went.

:GEEK:

 

Wow, ohjojo, nice FAQ on this issue. I just wish that other gurus would approve or correct, if needed, this guideline, especially with respect to PSD color settings, as you seem to be not sure about them. Thanks!

 

Some of you have requested ICCv2 profiles from my Lacie Proof Ed device. I'm attaching a zip (renamed to .txt) that has 2 ICCv2 profiles. One was done at 50% brightness and the other at 100% brightness. They are almost identical but you can flip between the two and see VERY minor white point changes.

 

Many thanks!

 

this is the best profile for me so far, thanks.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that after using this profile for a while longer, this is far superior to any other one i used before. Most others (spyder, etc) seemed too warm where my whites were slightly red-ish, this one seems to have addressed that.

 

Yes but problem with adjusting the white balance is you lose a load of brightness in the process.

 

i dont know about that, it certainly does not look like i lost any brightness and for once the yellows look as they should.

 

There are display settings in Win 7 that allow you to change display font size from 100% to 125% or 150% very quickly and easily. I did it on Studio 17 before I shipped it back, although that display was larger and only 1600x900 but I didn't want to strain my eyes and at 125% looked great. I'm expecting XPS 16 (with 16" RGBLED) in a couple of weeks and I believe it shouldn't be a problem either.

Likewise, your browser and other software fonts can also be adjusted as needed. It is something that had been available in all Windows versions going years back.

 

Thanks for all your help Guys.
Just about to get xps for photoshop on location and you have given me a great head start!

 

Must put a thanks out to you guys who are posting these ICC profiles. I've got a serious blue push happening on my display and your profiles have at least toned them down enough that I can handle it. I'm using the most current Blue Eyes calibration.

Sadly its still not perfect when compared to my other monitors.

 

I've noticed a loss of brightness too, but the better color balance really makes up for it.

 

Those photoshop settings are odd. I was taught to never use AppleRGB

 

I now use GrantGochnauers newest midbright profile and put the sceen saturation in PSD back to 100%.
Thanks for posting!

 

I think a poll should be set-up, asking which one of these brilliant profiles people are using. Non?? I'm using the Spyder2 one but I can't help but feel like there's a better one out there. Thank you all for your help, Mark and everyone. Great, Great Thread!

 

I think there might be slight variations between each rgbled screen as some of profiles posted make things worse, not better. My screen seems to be too warm, with reds and greens being far too strong and my whites looking slightly pinkish.

This profile in the post bellow attenuates most of those issues and makes my colours really quite accurate:

 

For someone who is a noob, never having calibrated anything how would I go about calibrating my RGBLED 1640 screen, the RED is like Wow it almost hurts my eyes to look at it! What should I do?

 

Read this for install instructions:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5254110&postcount=137

I find Mark's v2 profile the best now (better than cedm's due to increased contrast and more accurate colours):

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5361043&postcount=245

 

Thank You, I was also looking on NewEgg and Pantone makes a calibrator would that be any good?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882685001

 

Dear All,

Another ICC profile for you all to try, I hope it works out

The profile assumes you have the latest ATI drivers and all settings on default, if you do not have everything on default it will not work out, BTW White point is D65...

 

Nice profile Ramdrive +rep.

 

What's up with the 2 popular settings giving me a brown tinge? Looks grainy, don't like it at all. But you guys are saying it looks great.

Am I missing something? I'm downloading the file, unzipping it, double clicking it, opening colour management then adding the correct one and on comes the brown tinge.

I don't really like the default settings, it's mainly just the red being too bright and looking pinkish, and same deal with green (well that doesn't look pink, but too bright).

 

Question about the profile RAMDRIVE posted. On DeviantArt, the images are a different color in the thumbnail and when i click on it (when it enlarges, its a different shade)...anyway to make this consistent?

 

Hi, This is not down to the profile but the browser you use, have you tried firefox?

Your browser needs to to be able to colour manage...

Colin

 

By the way I've only just realised that whatever ICC I am using it's never applied to full screen games. To fix it you need to use Powerstrip which stops the ATI drivers from overwriting the LUT when you load a full screen game.

All my games look gorgeous now, I've been missing out!

 

Yea iaTa, I noticed that a while ago...but I just chose to lazily ignore it. Now that it seems that you've found a solution , can you give me a link for the download of that program (it says try and buy when I google it), and can you tell me what settings to implement (if necessary) to make it work? It would be very appreciated.

 

Powerstrip is great

 

http://entechtaiwan.com/files/pstrip.exe

1) Make sure your favourite ICC is loaded and in use (either via LUT loader or Windows 7 Display Calibration fix)

2) Install PowerStrip and go to Color Profiles - Configure

3) To the right of where it says Linear gamma ramp there is a camera icon - click it and select Capture - save as whatever you want

4) Tick Apply adjustments to non-linear ramp and click Save as and save your new profile

Now any game will use your ICC settings and look luuuurvly

 

Hi

First of all thanks to all of you for this great forum.
I have a Studio XPS with a wide gamut screen as well. I’m trying to find a solution to make my screen look as good as possible in color managed applications as well as in unmanaged applications.

I’ve come up with two possible solutions:

• 
  I could just set my CCC settings so my display looks like an sRGB. Great for unmanaged apps but how will this affect CM apps? (i.e. will photoshop display correct images?) This isn’t a good solution of course because I would 'lose' a lot of colors in CM apps and this would defeat the purpose of a wide gamut screen.

• 
  A lot better would be to use as much CM apps as possible and use a correct monitor profile which I’m sure I’ll find here (thanks again). But this leaves all my unmanaged apps looking horrible. Is there any way to make at least those where color is important (all kinds of Windows previews, thumbnails and photo viewers, movie editing software, media players, paint and office) look somewhat correct with the correct monitor profile in place for those that are CM? (i.e. temporarily adjusting the sliders in ATI CCC) Do CM apps get messed up colors if you change the CCC settings while a profile is active? If this is not the case I could leave the CCC settings optimized for unmanaged apps.

There might be a third possibility. I think someone already posted something like it. If one were to set the graphics cards settings in such a way that the screen looks like sRGB and then do a calibration that would consider those settings as default and create a profile to convert from data in those settings to data in wideRGB to be displayed correctly on the screen. Could it be possible to kind of ‘get the best of both worlds’ in such a way or would this just totally mess up the CM applications?

EDIT: these are the posts I meant:

I've looked around in this thread and found several different settings to 'mimick' sRGB. Which ones are considered best?

To conclude: this is some of the software that I use. Can anyone tell me which ones are CM?
Windows preview, Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Irfanview
Windows Live Movie Maker, Camtasia Studio and Fraps (Or any other editing and recording software),
Windows Media Player (I’ve seen that there is a way to make the classic player somewhat CM), Any other media player?
Adobe Reader, Paint, Office 2007 and possible 2010 in the future,
Internet browsers (I use Firefox 3.5 which I know is CM but I’d like to know some alternatives.), Webcam software (I have a program from Dell for that now that is probably not CM.)
Viewing a webcam stream in Messaging programs like Live Messenger or Skype (Not really that important but it would be nice to know.)
Flash player (i.e. Are Youtube video’s displayed in my browser correctly? I think the progress bar is not, it looks pinkish too.)

Greetings,

Jeroen

 

Most of these look absolutely stunning on a calibrated RGBLED display.

Download: iaTa WUXGA+ Wallpaper Collection