Debby1
April 1st, 2003, 08:52 AM
Hey all,
1 What do you all do and recommend for setting your computer
monitor? ( brightness)
2. How do you relate that to your printing ( if you sent it out? )
For example, I guess I tend to let my monitor run dark. I mean it looks okay to me. And most sites: CNN, anywhere i cruise
the pics look about right.
BUT, I got photoshop and did the monitor set up.
WHOA - it brightened my monitor quite a bit. ( the whites
were really greyish I learned)
So I put some prints on line with my new brightness and
they looked fine. But sometimes the monitor boots and
doesnt go into the new bright mode - every other site
looks about right BUT now my prints I put on line look DARK to me.
1. Are most sites and users using too dark a monitor?
2. If I correct to my monitor now, I think shots are too dark - and most surfers are using a darker monitor and will think they are UNDERexposed and amateur!
( anybody agree? )
3 also, Im afraid to send stuff out for printing. Should I calibrate it
to the adobe or what?
( I know the adobe photoshop has a bunch of different templates, but most seemed brighter than my orig.)
also, I once noticed a friends new site ( pro done) , shes a model, was WAY dark to me. I didnt comment to her out of politeness. but with my monitor UP now - it looks fine. But hers is about the only example i can think of.
This seems like a Huge ISSUE to me, and dont know why
Pros arent discussing it more!
Very confused.
Deb
Ps - I note most the pics in the gallery here, look about right
to me, on my lax ( dark ) monitor - NOT too dark like my shots.
( by the way - I dont mean my s2 is dark, but I re set the
brightness of the image in shop, got me?)
1 What do you all do and recommend for setting your computer
monitor? ( brightness)
2. How do you relate that to your printing ( if you sent it out? )
For example, I guess I tend to let my monitor run dark. I mean it looks okay to me. And most sites: CNN, anywhere i cruise
the pics look about right.
BUT, I got photoshop and did the monitor set up.
WHOA - it brightened my monitor quite a bit. ( the whites
were really greyish I learned)
So I put some prints on line with my new brightness and
they looked fine. But sometimes the monitor boots and
doesnt go into the new bright mode - every other site
looks about right BUT now my prints I put on line look DARK to me.
1. Are most sites and users using too dark a monitor?
2. If I correct to my monitor now, I think shots are too dark - and most surfers are using a darker monitor and will think they are UNDERexposed and amateur!
( anybody agree? )
3 also, Im afraid to send stuff out for printing. Should I calibrate it
to the adobe or what?
( I know the adobe photoshop has a bunch of different templates, but most seemed brighter than my orig.)
also, I once noticed a friends new site ( pro done) , shes a model, was WAY dark to me. I didnt comment to her out of politeness. but with my monitor UP now - it looks fine. But hers is about the only example i can think of.
This seems like a Huge ISSUE to me, and dont know why
Pros arent discussing it more!
Very confused.
Deb
Ps - I note most the pics in the gallery here, look about right
to me, on my lax ( dark ) monitor - NOT too dark like my shots.
( by the way - I dont mean my s2 is dark, but I re set the
brightness of the image in shop, got me?)