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03/29/2009 11:56:00 AM · #1 |
| OK...so I am sitting their editing my photos. I like one, upload it to my site, put it on the slideshow, sit back to watch it, THEN notice the dodge/burn marks or under/oversaturated areas. When I look from one point, it looks clean, from another, looks dirty. Where should I put my monitor? I am going through all my photos from a distance now to get an idea of which ones need re-editing. |
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03/29/2009 12:04:21 PM · #2 |
Sounds like your monitor has either a TN panel, or a one of the VA flavors (PVA, MVA...). From your description, it seems that VA is more likely. What you're seeing is color and gamma shift. It's why folks pay much higher prices for s-ips panels.
What you can do is to always view the monitor from as close to on-center as possible, and adjust it to produce correctly-rendered images when viewed that way.
If you monitor has a more recent VA panel, it may have quite a high contrast ratio, which may make shadow areas appear to lose detail... until they are viewed on another monitor, and then you see editing that you'd thought was invisible. |
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03/29/2009 12:25:36 PM · #3 |
Take this with a grain of salt...it's not your monitor. True, if you get a different viewing angle it looks different--but that's minor. What you might want to look at is your PP. If you're just dodging/burning on the same layer you're setting yourself up to overlook the dodge/burn marks. It's often repeated but worth thinking about--figure out how to get what you want by editing the entire image area at once. Do all your global changes before you spend time on the little touches. Then, someday when you get another monitor, you won't have to go back & re-edit. And, you will have a great PP workflow that will work on any monitor. [eta] If you can figure out how to do it, make the leaning-back angle of view the same as the leaning-forward angle of view. I've gone to reclined editing (lazyboy) and when I want a closer view instead of leaning forward, I zoom in. Saves my eyes & my back. Of course, sometimes I fall asleep while editing, but I have great dreams!
Message edited by author 2009-03-29 12:32:04. |
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