If your screen is yellowish...

If your screen is yellowish, how much color correction can be done to make whites look whiter?

I've tried adjusting gamma in the Nvidia properties, but I'm not having much luck getting a pure white. I end up with a yellowish lavender sort of color which looks ill.

Has anyone been able to make a yellowish screen look normal? If you did it by adjusting gamma, what percentages did you use?

 

That doesn't seem right. It should be white out of the box, and if it isn't easily fixed in the display setting then I would give dell a call!

 

Not always. Just read the dozens of grainy screen threads on the dell forum. Dell uses numerous manufacturers for glass... SEC, AUO, LG, CMO and there is more,, just can't remember. From what customers are reporting, the LG is probably the best. AUO get the worst complaints and I have heard of the yellowish whites with SEC and AUO screens. Believe me, its the display. There not all the same unfortunately. Yes you can call, and they will probably send a replacement, without any garantee of what panel is being used. I think you should search back a few pages on the grainy threads and do some catching up on dells display woes.

 

In my experience grainy does not equal yellow. My girlfriend has the AUO screen (it is quite grainy) and I have the SEC (which in my case is beautiful) and both have wonderful color reproduction.

 

there is no way to fix the "yellowed" whites they are what they are.. trust me i had 2 out of 4 systems with it and i have very expensive calibration tools here with me i could not get it to go away as someone above sais i think dell just told the companies to give the the cheapest stuff they could get..

 

So zfactor.. are you going to jump on the HP 30% off deal now?

 

As far as I know, there doesn't seem to be a way to make a yellowish screen much different than what it is. I've tried even messing with the individual color channels in the Nvidia Control Panel, and it just doesn't work.

 

Mine is slightly grainy, but it's not that bad. It's the yellow that bothers me.
The screen is a SEC3350.

I don't have anything other than the gamma controls. It must be a flaw in the fluorescent backlight.

That's the same thing I was trying to do, but I kept getting a tinted white. I was hoping there might be some magic combination of gamma percentages. I guess not.

I guess I'm going to have to do that. I'm not too pleased after having waited so long for it, but . Besides the yellowish whites it doesn't have very good viewing angles.

 

the sec3350 i have personally had and it is very yellow... nothing you can do but get another one or a refund a lot of the yellow you are seeing ill bet is the grain of the screen but you may not know what grain looks like

 

i'd love to know what your "very expensive calibration tools" are. please fill us in.

 

Maybe he's talking about something like this
http://www.colorvision.com/product-mc.php

I've noticed that my screen actually IS able to produce whites. For example in the desktop wallpaper with the waterfall, the whites in the waterfall are not yellowish. Now I'm wondering if there is some Vista program or other Dell-added program that is causing the backgrounds in program windows to look yellowish (maybe some misguided attempt to make them more restful on the eyes than a stark white?)

Anyway, I took a screenshot and saved it in Paint and uploaded it.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x241/spixh/1520whites.jpg

Looking at the picture with other computers, the background color in Notepad looks white and matches the white of the waterfall.

But on the 1520, the Notepad background appears more like the Ivory color in the wiki picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_white
while the waterfall actually looks like a real white.

It's weird that I can see the difference in the whites of the jpg Notepad background and the waterfall on the 1520, but not on the other two computers (one using a CRT and the other an LCD monitor). The problem can't be a dirty TrueLife coating if the monitor is able to display a white at all.

 

sorry i missed that response i didnt see it till now.. yes i have colorvision as well as well as Monaco's Optix XR colorimeter and Monaco Optix XR Pro software in addition to the colorpro...