Color
If you play around with photos, images and videos, this area is likely the ones that concerns you most. Setting up your monitor to reproduce 'correct' color correction may not be of concern to the average user, but it should be. Gamers can also use color correction features to brighten or darken scenes, enhance colors and specular highlights - think of it as manual 'tone mapping'. The color corrections controls we're going to discuss here applies to the desktop - we'll discuss overlay (video) color controls later on.AMD
We're not particularly fond of AMD insistence to separate hue / saturation controls on the AVIVO Color page and everything else (brightness, contrast, gamma) on the Color page. More so since the Catalyst Control Center is unable to save changes to hue / saturation inside a profile. Thankfully, everything else seems to be in order. New to Catalyst 7.6 in Vista is the Black and White Levels section. Everything else is pretty much the same in Windows XP. You can set brightness, contrast and gamma for all channels or individually for each channel. At least this way, you should have some measure in controlling hue or tint.
The AVIVO Video page offers similar control, but only applies to overlays. The usual color control settings are there, though gamma is missing on the Vista version. For those using multi monitor setups and extended displays, you can use theater mode to manipulate overlays on your secondary monitor(s). The Basic Quality section controls how AVIVO perform video deinterlacing, including pulldown detection. As usual, you can see a preview when cycling through default profiles in Presets and each sub section (Basic Color, Basic Quality). If you have a Radeon HD2x00 graphics card, there are some additional options here as well.
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