#Asus monitor adjust brightness manual#
If you are like me and have no idea where you’ve stored the monitor user manual, don’t worry, you can generally find the user manual online. If you can’t find the option within the monitor menu, take a look at the monitor manual. So, if I want to change the brightness, I need to first open the menu, select the Brightness option, and then change it using the up or down arrow buttons.ĭepending on your monitor, the way to change monitor brightness may differ. For instance, on my Dell monitor, the brightness controls are in the main menu. On some monitors, the brightness controls might be buried within other menus.
Usually, most monitors have dedicated Brightness buttons. The easiest and sure-fire way is to use the monitor buttons. If the above method did not work or if you are looking for an alternative, here are some. If that’s the case, go to the “Time adjustments” tab and click on the “Add a time” button to set the timings. For instance, you might want the monitor to be bright in the day time and dim in the night time. You can also configure the app to automatically adjust the brightness based on time. In my case, I set Ctrl + F12 to increase brightness and Ctrl + F11 to decrease the brightness on all displays. Go to the “Hotkeys” tab and assign the keyboard shortcuts as required. To do that, open the Twinkle Tray slider on the taskbar and click on the “Settings” icon. I'll let my eyes adjust to it and see what happens.If you want to, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease screen brightness. Since I was always 100% satisfied with my HP 2159m image quality, this ASUS monitor is now perfect. Knock the blue down a bit solves the issue.Īfter this adjustment, the ASUS VG236H has matched my HP 2159m's image quality.
Once again, ASUS out of the box has a very noticeable blue tint, and this has been confirmed by several various reviews. I can tell because I have an HP 2159m as a second monitor that tells me the VG236H's Standard Mode can't fully saturate the things that are fully saturated on my 2159m. Too much sharpness causes artifacting of images, the default at 31 is *almost* perfect, but I prefer my images slightly softer. Lowering it yield noticeable results distinguishing tones near bright lights. With a value of 80 before, the default contrast washes out the near-white tones and holding back the color potential of this monitor. (important, this is what is causing the brighter-tone washout problem) In Standard Mode, I had the brightness adjusted lower, but lowering the contrast generally lowers the gamma as well, so brightness had to be turned up to compensate. The bad: terrible calibration out of the box The good: displays much more of the color gamut than compared Standard Mode I went in there and made adjustments that befitted my eyes. Game Mode was pretty raw in its default settings and was poorly calibrated out of the box. Theather and Scene Mode blacken out the darker tones completely, so that's off my list.
Many of the other modes provided, like Scene, Theater, and Game had good saturation, but too much. With trying the different modes, I also found that Standard Mode didn't provide enough of the color gamut that the VG236H was capable of, and strangely, the saturation option was disabled on Standard. After playing around with the adjustment some more, I found the culprit for the brighter-tone washout: it's the high default contrast.