Originally posted by Olyuzi:
I don't know if this has been spoken of before but I feel that the window color of entries during voting, that is the border surrounding the pictures, needs to be a neutral grey, rather than the white it is now (at least on my monitor). A white border will cause the image to appear darker, as I think was the case with my purple entry, "Dessicated Blush," which the purple looked so much brighter on my monitor before uploading to DPC. Especially with portrait style format images, there is more white showing and probably has an effect of constricting the pupils more and causing less light to reach the retina, making images appear darker. I have also read in books that a white border will make for darker looking images and a black border will make images appear brighter. So, in all fairness to the intended look of the image by the photographer, I think DPC should adopt a neutral grey window for challenge voting. |
The current color is a neutral 18% grey. If it appears white to you, your monitor may need to be adjusted.
-Terry
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