Damien Symonds

Yes. You've become too used to it being REALLY REALLY bright. So proper brightness always seems too dark at first.

No, leave the moon (contrast) exactly where it is. Keep the brightness going down. The result should be somewhere between 80 and 100. Some people have to take their screen's brightness to 10% or even lower.

Sorry, yes, press "Update". Don't worry about the pinkish for now. Only the brightness at this stage.

Great. So take that brightness way down, until you have a match.

As low as it needs to be. To match your pro lab prints. Which lab are your prints from?

Page 37 tells you how to adjust the brightness.

Is this the monitor you have? https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_electronics_accessories/esuprt_electronics_accessories_monitors/dell-u2419h-monitor_user's-guide_en-us.pdf

209 is completely outrageous. You forgot to adjust your screen's brightness to match your prints at the beginning of the instructions.

Oh, sorry, on a Mac it's in a different menu. I can't remember what it's called, but it'll be there somewhere. Show me a screenshot of your available menus if you can't find it.

Hi @chana, did you follow my calibration instructions here?

Oh, phew.

I'm definitely not going to do that until we know for sure it's the screen, not the room or the calibrator. Yes.

Then I see no alternative but to temporarily move the whole computer back into the other room, and see what happens.

The scan is cooler than the photo you posted earlier, if that's what you mean.

Ok. Do you have another screen you can plug in and try?

Recently in AD I posted about my own experience - how I moved my desk 1.5 metres to the right IN THE SAME ROOM and could no longer achieve a print match. Moving a whole room can make a world of difference. Sorry, for once I wasn't asking about print comparison. I just wanted to know if, to the average person, the screen settings would seem warm now.

Do all the settings look that warm to you? Or is it only the way the calibrator is reading them?

This is truly bizarre. I seriously can't imagine why it would be so. Did you accidentally drop your calibrator while moving stuff?

The first statement seems to downplay the second. It must be more than a "bit" darker.

To your eye, how much different is the light in the new room?

Oh, phew!

Ok, we need to know the source of this problem. Do you still have your old screen? Or another screen of any sort? You'll need to plug it in and calibrate it and see if the same problem arises.

No, of course not. There is no problem with your images, only your screen profile.

Bummer Try another calibration with a Version 4 profile, maybe. https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/32032-xelite-07/

Yeah, I can't find anything to contradict that either. Your Spyder worked ok on your previous screen?