My cintiq 21ux is dark. Blacks are deep and things look the way I want them. However when move that image over to my ASUS monitor, everything is brightened and the contrast is lost. The image now looks terrible because the darks are all washed out and it reveals all these imperfections in the gradient that destroys the image. I've messed with the brightness and contrast all I can in standard mode and simply all it does is make my screen dull or make my screen bright. Contrast seems to do the same thing as brightness. If I switch it over to "theater" mode, then things look much more accurate but now I am here thinking, holy crap, this drawing may look right to me, but everyone else is going to look at this washed out garbage. Its as though I have to choose to paint for my cintiq or to paint for my asus.

I've done adobe gamma adjustments and countless other guides for proper settings. Now I don't even know which monitor is accurate and these calibration guides are useless. I'm not sure what I'm painting is what you're getting and that frustrates me greatly. I don't have a bad monitor, its a very up to date and quite stylish ASUS LED monitor. So I'm very upset.