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10/08/2003 11:11:08 PM · #1 |
I took the advice and recalibrated my monitor, the contrast and brightness levels, went back to the Dreams and Nightmares challenge and looked again.
WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MADE! Some of my 3's and 4's got bumped up to 8's and might possibly make 9's before I'm done! I had no idea my monitor was set so dark!
Deannda |
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10/08/2003 11:22:31 PM · #2 |
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10/08/2003 11:22:44 PM · #3 |
| hopefully more people will go out there and do what you did |
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10/08/2003 11:27:30 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by achiral:
hopefully more people will go out there and do what you did |
I hope so...my score is desperately counting on it!! lol
I can definately tell by the difference in comments I have received on my dreams and nightmares submission that there is a big difference in how it is viewed on different monitors. |
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10/08/2003 11:30:30 PM · #5 |
| I have noticed similar things- monitors ma ke a BIG difference! |
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10/08/2003 11:35:06 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Neuferland:
I took the advice and recalibrated my monitor, the contrast and brightness levels, went back to the Dreams and Nightmares challenge and looked again.
Deannda |
By which method of recalibrating are you speaking of to recalibrating your monitor.
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10/09/2003 12:30:28 AM · #7 |
I hope I didn't make the wrong choice....I'll check it out after voting, but I made my decision on the Nightmare challenge based on what my shot looked like on my work computer....after this thread I maybe shoulda tried to calibrate that moniter....
Let ya know in about 4 days...
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10/09/2003 12:40:33 AM · #8 |
I am battling the calibration thing really badly :(
I found a greyscale strip someone pointed me to and even on the highest settings I couldn't get eother of my monitors to see all the bands.
I am finding it frustrating, as if I can't see what I am producing I can assume that MOST people do not see anything like I produce.
However, I have found a solution .....
Next challenge that has a lot of black in it I am going to invite everyone over to my place, coffee and cookies provided, and they can vote using my monitor.
It shouldn't be a hard journey for anyone, I am only 30 mins from Brisnbane (Australia) airport :) |
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10/09/2003 01:13:05 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by natator:
However, I have found a solution .....
Next challenge that has a lot of black in it I am going to invite everyone over to my place, coffee and cookies provided, and they can vote using my monitor.
It shouldn't be a hard journey for anyone, I am only 30 mins from Brisnbane (Australia) airport :) |
I'm ready. You'll send a limo to pick us up?
What kind of monitor/computer/OS are you running?
Message edited by author 2003-10-09 01:13:53. |
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10/09/2003 10:09:14 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
Originally posted by Neuferland:
I took the advice and recalibrated my monitor, the contrast and brightness levels, went back to the Dreams and Nightmares challenge and looked again.
Deannda |
By which method of recalibrating are you speaking of to recalibrating your monitor. |
The gray strip on the bottom was not really defined for me and in another thread they linked to an even better gray strip. I have a Gateway LE500 monitor and pressed my little buttons on the front and played with the contrast and brightness until I could see all the bars. It has made a HUGE difference in a lot of the photos and my scoring as a result! My monitor's brightness was set really low, I had no idea it was so dark!
Deannda |
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10/09/2003 02:23:10 PM · #11 |
Look here
here
Message edited by author 2003-10-09 14:24:35.
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10/14/2003 05:21:28 AM · #12 |
I have a Samsung monitor, 17". It's a 750, or 705 or something, I can't tell any more as I turned them both black *laugh* (Very easy to do it and look like black originals, if anyone is interested drop me a message).
Even with brightness at 100% and then stuffing around with contrast, neither monitor can get to the point of seeing all the bars in the white-black strip.
May well just be bad monitors. Bad monitors, bad!!!! *spank*
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