How do I calibrate my monitor
I have a Dell U2711 monitor and I noticed that when I edit photos, I sometimes see less detail than on the built-in display of my rMBP. So I decided to run a calibration, but I can't even get get past the first step!
The first step tells me to crank my contrast up all the way. When I do this, everything is really blown out and hard to see. Is that normal? ... (factory default is Bri-50%, Con-50%)
Next it says increase brightness until the oval in the figure is barely visible, and decrease it if the right half of the background is brighter than the left. But no matter what I do with my settings, the background always looks two-tone, and the oval always stands out. There's a black box as an example of what is "too dark", but my monitor doesn't go anywhere close to that dark.
Can anybody explain this, because it feels like I'm being asked to do the impossible? This was an expensive, high-end monitor, so it should be able to handle a calibration.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), 2014
