Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

I have a Dell 2414H monitor. There is a NVIDA control panel, a Dell Display Manager and monitor controls. Which ones should I use to calibrate the monitor when starting out setting up profiles in Profile Prism? Should I turn any of these off, or should I set any of them to Reset?

Thanks for any help for the newbie!

You don't say how you are calibrating the monitor but assuming you are using a device like an Xrite i1Dispay or a Spider device then use the monitor controls.
The software that come with these devices produces a LUT (Look Up Table) to control & set the display driver.
Terry

I am referring to calibrating as discussed in the "Profile Prism" page "Procedure for calibrating a monitor, backgournd" http://www.ddisoftware.com/prism/help/msteps.htm (http://www.ddisoftware.com/prism/help/msteps.htm)

This differentiates calibrating from profiling which seems to indicated that profiling is the procedure using a hardware measuring device. Your reply seems to indicate that you take calibration as the procedure that uses hardware measuring.

So I mean calibration as discussed in the page listed above, i.e. no hardware other than the monitor itself and the graphics card.

OK. I understand that now.
That article does say "The first phase of adjusting the contrast, brightness, and color temperature requires adjustment of the monitor via the control panel on the front of the monitor."
So it is the monitor controls.
I've never use PP to calibrate a monitor as I have an Xrite EyeOne Display2 device. Like many photographers, I use the term "calibrate" to both adjust the monitor and make a profile with an associated LUT (look-up-table) that is loaded into the display driver.
Terry