News hardware Windows 11: Here’s how to make colors look better than ever on your PC screen
The latest innovation in Windows 11 brings a new tool that allows gamers to optimize the image quality of their screen, and more particularly the colors on a monitor that supports HDR. Here’s how to use it.
Last year, Microsoft promised Windows users that it would add an app to optimize HDR color grading within Windows 11. At the time, the manufacturer was still refining its operating system proposal, and this promise was somewhat forgotten. However, today, we can see that it was held.
Microsoft quietly releases its HDR app
The Windows HDR Calibration application has been available since the end of September in the Microsoft Store, and she didn’t really make a big splash. It must be said that Microsoft did not particularly advertise and was content to add discreetly a page on its support site. Named “Calibrate your HDR display using the Windows HDR Calibration app”, it returns to the advantages of this tool for owners of a compatible PC monitor.
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“This app allows you to calibrate your HDR display to optimize it for HDR gaming (including Auto HDR) and other HDR content on your Windows 11 PC. Go through a series of steps to set brightness levels minimum and maximum, as well as the level of color saturation, in order to create a new color profile made for your screen »can we read on the sheet of the application,
free to download on any computer with Windows 11.
Using this application is very easy. After installing it, you only have to launch it to see the interface appear. Before starting the configuration, make sure that HDR is activated on your PC screen: if it does not have such a feature, you do not need to go further. The application is also responsible for warning you if this is not the case.
During the calibration phase, the app goes full screen and asks you to manually calibrate the brightness level, then the color saturation level. Depending on the desired accuracy, this process can take several minutes. Once you are happy with the result, you can save it for create a new HDR profile. This can easily be saved for recovery and installation on other machines, without having to perform the calibration once more.
An HDR function soon integrated into Windows 11?
The first users of this Microsoft application are satisfied with the result and its ease of use. Some are even surprised that the company has chosen to offer this functionality in the form of an application to download, rather than integrating it directly into the Windows 11 display settings.
Today, more and more users have an HDR-compatible PC monitor, and high-end laptops are regularly equipped with them. We can imagine that Microsoft will integrate this tool directly into Windows 11 in a future update.
