Found out my tablet color calibration was off by 800 kelvin

I kept wondering why my sunset pieces looked great on my tablet but muddy on my phone. After 4 months of frustration, I finally borrowed a colorimeter from a friend who does print work. Turned out the factory default white point was way too cool, like 9500K when it should be around 6500K. I ran the calibration tool last Tuesday and the difference is night and day. My oranges pop now and my skin tones finally look like actual skin instead of plastic. I had no idea tablets drift that hard from the factory, guess I just assumed they were set right. Has anyone else checked their device's white point or are we all just trusting the out of box settings?

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jason32827d ago

Damn, 800 kelvin is huge... that's like the difference between daylight and a candle. No wonder your stuff looked off, that's wild they'd ship it like that.