Wizard Brightness/Contrast Help

( This is the wizard's brightness/contrast screen for Monitor Calibration Wizard.)

What you can do on this screen:

Please read the introductions. The main goal is to get the white box as bright as possible while keeping the black box as dark as possible. The farther apart you can get black and white the more vivid the colors will look. This is done by adjusting the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor. Some monitors may not have both settings while others have even more color settings.

The contrast adjustment on your monitor will seperate white from black. The higher the contrast setting the more black and white are seperated. The lower the setting the closer black and white will be to each other. Try setting this as high as possible until it visibly does affect the colors diplayed on your monitor. You may want to raise or lower it after adjusting the brightness setting of your monitor.

The brightness setting on your monitor adjusts the overall brightness of all colors displayed by your monitor. By raising the brightness, all the colors displayed by your monitor should increase. Lowering the brightness setting should descrease the brightness of all the colors displayed by your monitor.

Some monitors have a red, green, and blue intensity setting. If your monitor has these settings, setting them to the max value may help make the white brighter and help make the colors appear more vivid.

Some CRT monitors and many LCD screens have poor brightness and constrast settings that only sort-of-work. Try your best at getting the black box as dark as possible while getting the white box as bright as possible.

Click the "Continue" button when you are done.

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