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03/08/2006 08:05:08 AM · #1 |
This is my pic for the Painting With Light challenge. I am not complaining about my score or asking for a critique. I am just curious about a comment from someone who said the background was strange and looked to be compressed. I don't see that at all and I'm wondering if anyone else sees it. I sent that person a PM but she hasn't responded to me. Thanks for looking!
Edited to say she just PM'd me and said she sees the background as if it were a gif with 2 different levels of black. I stil don't see it even after lightening it up a lot in PSP.
Message edited by author 2006-03-08 08:09:41.
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03/08/2006 08:08:43 AM · #2 |
I don't see any strange color or artefacts.
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03/08/2006 08:12:23 AM · #3 |
Nope, there's nothing wrong with the backgruond as far as I'm concerned. There are, though, two dead(or hot I guess) pixels on the left side of the angel.
(spell check)
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03/08/2006 08:12:44 AM · #4 |
I don't know what kind of equipment she has, but it sounds more like a graphics problem on her end, with not good enough equipment to display a smooth gradient between blacks. I get the same thing when I look at photos on my older monitor.
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03/08/2006 08:13:52 AM · #5 |
I have that magnifier for firefox that lets me zoom way in, which if I use it, WAY in, and look carefully as I scroll, I can see just the hint of soem BG artifacting, but it's virtually unnoticeable at magnification and utterly unnoticeable at normal viewing size. It may be that if her monitor is set at a limited number of colors as opposed to the "millions of colors" most of us use, it is standing out more for her, especially if her contrast is way up.
Robt.
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03/08/2006 08:14:15 AM · #6 |
| Probably she just needs to clean her screen ;-) |
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03/08/2006 08:43:13 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I have that magnifier for firefox that lets me zoom way in, which if I use it, WAY in, and look carefully as I scroll, I can see just the hint of soem BG artifacting, but it's virtually unnoticeable at magnification and utterly unnoticeable at normal viewing size. It may be that if her monitor is set at a limited number of colors as opposed to the "millions of colors" most of us use, it is standing out more for her, especially if her contrast is way up.
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Bear - what is this magnifier - whats the extension called ?
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03/08/2006 09:07:44 AM · #8 |
So, Im the one writing that comment in the first place.
I dont see that any artifacting from my screen at work, and probably not on my own PC either. But I did from the Sony Vaio that I used when I gave the comment. I guess the VAIO screen/graphique card is not correctly calibrated.
Ill have a look again from the vaio and make sure to calibrate it correctly !
best regards
:)
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03/08/2006 10:06:15 AM · #9 |
Falc - with Firefox all you do is right click on any image, and it'll give you the option to zoom in. You can zoom all the way to 400%.
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03/08/2006 10:11:11 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Falc - with Firefox all you do is right click on any image, and it'll give you the option to zoom in. You can zoom all the way to 400%. |
I'm running firefox 1.5.0.1 and that option is not available on right click. Sure its not an extension?
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03/08/2006 10:36:22 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
... I am just curious about a comment from someone who said the background was strange and looked to be compressed. I don't see that at all and I'm wondering if anyone else sees it.
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It appears the issue is that the background is not pure black and has sublte tones that on some monitors something in it can become visible. It does not look pure black in your submitted image.
To check I downloaded the image. Of course, after downloading and looking with PS there has been one more conversion of it and the artifacting is more easily seen. Looks to me to be the old 8-bit color tones issue where the image contains a subtle range of tones which 8-bit color cannot display and/or your camera cannot record. It comes out as discontinuous jumps from one tone to another that are in the shape of pixels. This problem is most commonly seen in the sky of landscape images. I could see it in the background of your image.
After using levels to set a black point the problem is fixed.
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