The Huion Kamvas 16 offers excellent midlevel tablet display performance at a great value. It is light and well-designed, with features that can support most art tasks.
Have you ever connected a Huion Kamvas Pro 16 drawing monitor to your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air only to find the color looks a bit different between the two screens?
Don’t Surprise! Every monitor is different, and this completely normal. The best way to combat this is to have your screens calibrated.
It’s important to take a few steps. The good news is that calibrating your monitor is easier than you might think.
Why does my Huion Kamvas Pro 16 screen look different from Macbook?
The main reason for the different displays is that the Huion Kamvas Pro 16 uses a different panel and color gamut than Macbook.
By default, Macbook with mini-LED panel may be using Display P3 (99% DCI-P3) while Kamvas pro 16 with QLED panel support sRGB or Adobe RGB.
The color gamut of Huion kamvas pro 16 tablets can vary depending on the model (total 3- 1080p FHD, 2.5K QHD and 4K UHD), but generally, Huion tablets (FHD and 4K UHD model) have a more limited color gamut (120% sRGB) compared to Macbooks using the P3 color gamut.
However, the Kamvas Pro 16 (2.5K) version, do offer a wide color gamut (99% Adobe RGB or 145% sRGB) that can match or even exceed that of some old macbook models.
A big part of why the colors on Kamvas Pro 16 look “worse” is because of its low luminosity. It’s about less than 200 cd/m2 while your iMac probably has more than 250 cd/m2. This makes the white look much brighter and adds a lot of contrast.
How to Make Huion Kamvas Pro 16 Display Same as Macbook Color?
It’s easy to color calibrate your monitors, and you can do so quickly by eye, or you can use a display colorimeter to get your colors exactly right. Here’s how you can do it.
Method 1: Calibrate your monitor by calibrator
Best solution is to use a hardware colorimeter. Datacolor Spyder X Pro and X-Rite ColorMunki are reasonable and good. You can also rent, try to find used and /or previous version than latest.
A display colorimeter, also called a calibrator, probe or puck, is a device that measures on-screen color patches for use in display calibration and profiling.
Monitor calibration happens by placing a colorimeter on the screen and then getting the calibration app to display a sample of colors.
The colorimeter then measures how accurately the screen displays each color, and calculates adjustments that need to be made.
Configuring 2 monitors to match each other is tricky, but with a calibration tool (Spyder Pro) or patient fine-tuning of software settings (DisplayCAL), you can color-match your monitors to each other.
They’re not perfect, it will be a little bit off no matter what because both screen’s panel and color gamut that covered are not same.
Method 2: calibrate your monitor by eye
If you don’t have a professional calibrator, set the same profile for both, I suggest Adobe RGB, then tweak the monitor to look similar to your MacBook display.
Look up an SMPTE color bar image or similar image, basically just an image with a full range of colors, blacks, and whites. (Like a printer test page)
Display the test image on both your macbook monitor and your tablet. Make sure that it’s the exact same image, being displayed in the same program.
Adjust your tablet’s display settings using the monitor calibration menu (OSD) until the images match as closely as possible.
For the Kamvas pro 16, you can access the OSD menu either by pressing the power button for 3 seconds or from the driver settings.
Options in the OSD menu include gamma, contrast, temperature, RGB, brightness, and backlight.
Display brightness will make a huge impact. Try to set both displays to same settings.
Gamma has to do with how your monitor displays light & dark. Temperature for a monitor should be about 6500K, probably leave this one alone.
There should be a saturation option under color, and i brought that down to 41 from 50(default, i believe). It looks fine for the most part.
Likely the most helpful setting will be the color balance (RGB). Adjust the RGB sliders until the red tint is gone.
Since the macbook display are decently color accurate, What you are trying to do is make the image on your huion tablet match the one on your macook as closely as possible. Don’t change any settings on your macbook monitor.
If the tablet display menu is in your way, you can actually alter where it appears on your screen in order to give you a better view of the SMPTE color bars. It’s going to be in Other > OSD H(orizontal) / OSD V(ertical) Position.
You’ll never be able to get them to match exactly by this method if that is what you are looking for. To get them close, you’ll need to understand the display settings for your monitor and adjust them accordingly. This will probably take a fair amount of trial and error but you’ll get there eventually.
Pro tips for Calibrating your Huion Monitor by Eye:
1. Use USB-C cable to connect: If your macbook has M series Chip, connecting the huion display to your macbook via full-featured USB-C to USB-C cable so that you can can adjust OSD menu in the driver.
2. Turn off the True Tone: Macbook’s True Tone changes the screen tone continuously, but Huion monitor doesn’t support True Tone.
True Tone is switched on by default, which will affect the accuracy of screen calibration, turn it off during calibration.
If you don’t know how to do it, following this: Open up “Displays” in your System Settings. Click on the “Built-in Displays”. Uncheck the “True Tone” option.
3. Set mode to native: The Huion on-screen OSD can be a bit confusing at first. You have to set the mode to “native” to be able to adjust things like RGB levels, contrast, etc.
4. Creat a Color profile in Mac: In macOS, click the System Preferences icon on the dock (the grey gear on the right), Then click “Displays.” Click the “Color” setting on the right.
You can click all of the available profiles and see how they apply to the screen immediately (creat one or customize it for your huion external monitor).
Conclusion
Huion Kamvas Pro 16 display have a color accuracy of around 120% sRGB, which is pretty damn good especially at the price and with the features.
If you calibrate your screen to be as close to your macbook as possible, anything you make on your tablet will translate well to another screen.
Color correction is quite fragmented and theres no standard yet which works on everything.
Adjust OSD display setting so that it make you comfortable to do work , you can easily achieve the colour very close to your macbook screen by these setting.
If you still can’t calibrate the colors on both screens to match, I’d recommend editing on the huion kamvas display & then make color adjustments from the macbook.
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