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By Sue Chastain, About.com Guide to Graphics Software since 1999

Freeware Find: Monitor Calibration Wizard (Windows)

Sunday August 3, 2003
If you're having problems getting your monitor to display color properly, give Monitor Calibration Wizard a try. You have nothing to lose, it's free! Here is the description from the Web site:
Monitor Calibration Wizard is an easy-to-use tool for calibrating the colors displayed by your monitor. Most monitors have flaws, they may be too dark, too bright, or they may have a color tint like green or blue. All these problems can be easily fixed through Monitor Calibration Wizard.
I tried it and the wizard portion that walks you through the process of creating a profile is very straightforward. What to do once you've got one is a little unclear, however. This version doesn't support multiple monitors, but version 2.0 is in development and multiple monitor support is one of the planned improvements. I don't advise messing with things if you're happy with your current color display, though.

Here's a tip: use the arrow keys on your keyboard while making adjustments in the wizard for more precision.
[Monitor Calibration Wizard]
Also see: Color Management in Photoshop, Color Calibration

Comments

July 3, 2008 at 9:31 pm
(1) Anna says:

I tried to download this and my virus software said it was a virus and listed it as a “trojan-other”. I wanted to know if anyone had any problems with it or if it is just a quirk with my virus software.

February 10, 2009 at 4:20 pm
(2) Marcel says:

It is not your av that is quirking, it is a crappy file with a virus inside, I tried from several site, allways the same, there is nothing good about that file, it seems to be a dos executable and I have no idea what it does, but I would not trust it for a second.

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