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11/28/2009 01:42:47 PM · #1 |
I am having issues with the difference between the display of a photo on my husband's I-Mac versus my HP desktop that is Windows Vista. If I edit a picture on his computer, and it looks excellent, and then I put it onto my computer, it looks horrible. I have tried recalibrating my monitor and all that, and it doesn't help. Does anyone know if there's anything I can do? I could understand if it looked just a little bit better on his computer, because he has the 24 inch I-Mac, but when it comes over to my computer, the pictures look washed out and oversaturated. Any clues as to what can be done???
I know, I know, I should get a Mac. I'd love to, but they're expensive!!! |
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11/28/2009 01:54:34 PM · #2 |
Make sure both are calibrated, or if you don't have a calibration device, here is an earlier thread that links to some sites that can help you visually calibrate.
Also, make sure both computer displays are using the same color profile.
You may not be able to get them exact, but I'm sure you can get them closer.
Message edited by author 2009-11-28 13:54:44. |
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11/28/2009 02:13:44 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by houstonian:
I am having issues with the difference between the display of a photo on my husband's I-Mac versus my HP desktop that is Windows Vista. If I edit a picture on his computer, and it looks excellent, and then I put it onto my computer, it looks horrible. I have tried recalibrating my monitor and all that, and it doesn't help. Does anyone know if there's anything I can do? I could understand if it looked just a little bit better on his computer, because he has the 24 inch I-Mac, but when it comes over to my computer, the pictures look washed out and oversaturated. Any clues as to what can be done???
I know, I know, I should get a Mac. I'd love to, but they're expensive!!! |
What sort of display are you using on the PC? What video mode are you in? (color depth, resolution?)
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11/28/2009 03:08:55 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Originally posted by houstonian:
I am having issues with the difference between the display of a photo on my husband's I-Mac versus my HP desktop that is Windows Vista. If I edit a picture on his computer, and it looks excellent, and then I put it onto my computer, it looks horrible. I have tried recalibrating my monitor and all that, and it doesn't help. Does anyone know if there's anything I can do? I could understand if it looked just a little bit better on his computer, because he has the 24 inch I-Mac, but when it comes over to my computer, the pictures look washed out and oversaturated. Any clues as to what can be done???
I know, I know, I should get a Mac. I'd love to, but they're expensive!!! |
What sort of display are you using on the PC? What video mode are you in? (color depth, resolution?) |
i have a 24 inch imac in 1920 by 1200 on the default color settings and she has a 20 inch hp monitor that is set to 1200 by 720 on the 32 bit color setting, what happened is she used the preview editing tools to resize and bump the brightness/contrast and when she went back and looked at it on the pc, it looked washed out and the colors were off, black looked green, yellow looked white, and other colors were off... |
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11/28/2009 03:26:41 PM · #5 |
| i have an HP 2009m monitor |
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11/28/2009 05:01:30 PM · #6 |
| Do images on DPC look OK, or do they also seem washed out and saturated? |
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11/29/2009 02:31:46 PM · #7 |
| on dpc they look fine, she edited them on the mac, and then saved them to a flash drive to put them on her computer. I am thinking it is something with the compression of the file or something like that because we changed the settings on both monitors to try and correct the problem and that didn't work, I don't know what's up but i wish someone knew |
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11/29/2009 03:21:12 PM · #8 |
Most likely your Mac is set to the Mac (pre Snow Leopard) default gamma of 1.8, and your Windows PC is set to the Windows and Snow Leopard default of 2.2. See if this link helps.
~Terry
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