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11/10/2002 08:27:54 PM · #1 |
| Well I am curious... would it be possible to develope a standard for monitor and or video card settings so that the voters would see the same things the photographers saw when they were cropping, balancing, adjusting, etc... this could make critiques regarding darkness, lightness, etc., easier to understand... anyone have thoughts or ideas about this? thanks |
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11/10/2002 08:42:37 PM · #2 |
There is no real way for everyone to see the same thing. Many people don't calibrate their monitors. Some monitors are not even capable of being calibrated. I have some monitors at my office (Gateway 2000 17") that look like crap no matter what I do to them.
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11/14/2002 12:25:56 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
There is no real way for everyone to see the same thing. Many people don't calibrate their monitors. Some monitors are not even capable of being calibrated. I have some monitors at my office (Gateway 2000 17") that look like crap no matter what I do to them.
I used the Adobe Gamma calibration tool that comes with PhotoShop. My photographs look exactly the way I want them to look and when printed, they match what is on the screen quite well. But, in my last two submissions, I received comments about my photo being too dark. This is disappointing because those who do see them as I intended them to be seen, appreciate the lighting. I have to realize that when I take a photograph I must consider that many people will be viewing it on monitors that make it look much darker than meant to be. I wish I knew if my monitors are too bright or others are too dark. |
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11/14/2002 12:33:38 PM · #4 |
| Me too. I'm getting comments about one side being too light but it's fine to me. *sigh* been down this road too many times. |
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11/14/2002 12:37:15 PM · #5 |
The Adobe gamma tool gives a resonably good setting - not as good as a hardware calibration tool, as there is too much variance in terms of your subjective feeling on what is 'grey' or black etc, but still much better than most people have set.
We are going to at least have a greyscale tone chart soon so that
people shouldn't have as much problems with too dark/too light monitors,
but there isn't much we can do for colours being off balance.
There certainly isn't much we can do for room lighting or wall colour though which also impact how things look. |
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11/14/2002 12:41:13 PM · #6 |
| Gordon, that's great news! |
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11/14/2002 12:56:38 PM · #7 |
Another interesting aspect I learned about when showing friends this site on their computers is the discovery than many people are unaware that their systems are capable of the 16+ Millions colors of the "True Color" setting of their monitor/video card combination. Most are running the 64K color setting and that pushes colors and intensities around quite a bit. I've just been intentionally lightening the shots on my monitor and then check them on a cross section of work and/or friends monitor to get a consensus on what may look good for the challenge.
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11/14/2002 01:37:50 PM · #8 |
Any tutorials around for calibrating monitors without any special hardware?
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