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06/09/2004 01:46:36 AM · #1 |
I've been visiting the site from several different screens, and I've noticed that my screen is abnormally bright and often shows different colours than those that appear on most other computers. What's the best way to set my monitor to get a more accurate representation of brightness and colour schemes? I know the technical side of it - i.e., what buttons to push - I just don't know what levels are right. Any suggestions? :(
The worst part is that my submission for the waiting challenge looks gorgeous on my screen and totally WAY too dark on everyone else's. sad. :( |
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06/09/2004 02:00:52 AM · #2 |
I want to know too! I have a Dell, and I just hit the reset button on my monitor. Now, everything is kinda blueish. I need help!
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06/09/2004 02:01:48 AM · #3 |
You probably just need to calibrate you monitor.
First thing I did was visit the monitor maker's website and download the config and color profiles for my monitor. Then I made sure I had the latest drivers for my video card. And finally, calibrate using this site.
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06/09/2004 02:05:40 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by mirdonamy:
I want to know too! I have a Dell, and I just hit the reset button on my monitor. Now, everything is kinda blueish. I need help! |
That is most likely the color temperature of your monitor. Since light at different colors cast everything in a different hue, you need to set your monitor to match the color of the light you work in. It is similar to using white balance to make your photos look right. You will likely find it in an on-screen menu if you monitor is at all recent.
David
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06/09/2004 02:08:00 AM · #5 |
//www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html#Monitor_test_pattern
I found and tried some of these "visual" suggestions. They worked okay, but I feel like my whites still aren't white enough. Maybe I am tired. I should go to bed.
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06/09/2004 02:48:02 AM · #6 |
On the voting screen at the bottom is a bar with graduated white to black bar. Each bar should be, I believe 50% difference to the one next to it.
A lot of people have the last 3 bar solid black which should not be and will make everything seem darker then it is.
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06/09/2004 03:08:06 AM · #7 |
Unfortunately none of those have worked for me yet. When I press the Auto-Adjust on my monitor, the screen starts going crazy and changing settings a lot, and then it gets to the PERFECT setting, but then it switches to something else. Thus, I know it CAN be set right, I just don't know how to get it there.
To make matters worse, when I search for my monitor on the internet, I get NOTHING. It's as if my monitor doesn't exist. weird.
the thing that REALLY bothers me is that everything appears to be washed out and much much brighter than it already is. for example, in the "triple your pleasure" picture on the front page, I can't even see the top rim of the glasses.. the white is so overwhelming that it completely blanches out the edges of the glass. I've tried adjusting brightness, contrast, colour, gamma, etc. - almost nothing works. the closest I could get was lowering my gamma substantially (10 like low 1.x's), but then my screen was so dark I couldn't really see anything else, and if i increased brightness, I was back to square one. I don't know what to do.. I can't vote in challenges, because I've been voting people lower for having washed out images, and I'm only now realizing it's not them, it's ME. :( |
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06/09/2004 03:37:25 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by mffnqueen:
Unfortunately none of those have worked for me yet. When I press the Auto-Adjust on my monitor, the screen starts going crazy and changing settings a lot, and then it gets to the PERFECT setting, but then it switches to something else. Thus, I know it CAN be set right, I just don't know how to get it there. |
You will likely have to manually set it to where it needs to be; what other controls do you have, other than auto-adjust.
Originally posted by mffnqueen:
To make matters worse, when I search for my monitor on the internet, I get NOTHING. It's as if my monitor doesn't exist. weird. |
What is your monitor? Perhaps there are similar monitors out there that have information available.
Originally posted by mffnqueen:
the thing that REALLY bothers me is that everything appears to be washed out and much much brighter than it already is. for example, in the "triple your pleasure" picture on the front page, I can't even see the top rim of the glasses.. the white is so overwhelming that it completely blanches out the edges of the glass. I've tried adjusting brightness, contrast, colour, gamma, etc. - almost nothing works. the closest I could get was lowering my gamma substantially (10 like low 1.x's), but then my screen was so dark I couldn't really see anything else, and if i increased brightness, I was back to square one. I don't know what to do.. I can't vote in challenges, because I've been voting people lower for having washed out images, and I'm only now realizing it's not them, it's ME. :( |
There is nothing inherently wrong with setting the gamma in the 1's, that is just the numbering of the scale the adjustment tool is using; it is the gamma of the display, as determined by gamma patterns, that matter.
David
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