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01/29/2008 12:40:27 PM · #1 |
Really sorry for being weird, but during voting I happened to look at my 'best of' entry on another monitor and I was absolutely mortified.. It wasn't a case of looking a bit more darker or slightly lighter.. It looked like complete and utter rubbish.. all pixelated and brightened.. looked like it was taken from a mobile phone from the 90s.. I almost pulled my picture out..
I have absolutely no problems about my average, just wanted to know if it really looks like that for everyone.. am I the one whose monitor is set up all wrong..
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01/29/2008 12:43:13 PM · #2 |
It doesn't look pixelated to me.
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01/29/2008 12:43:45 PM · #3 |
Looks fine here.
The computer where you viewed it:
1) any accelerator being run?
2) 16 bit colour instead of 32 or true colour?
Just a couple of things that can make it look the way you describe.
Message edited by author 2008-01-29 12:55:09. |
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01/29/2008 12:43:57 PM · #4 |
| Right now I am on the worst monitor, as far as graphical resolution and representation, of all my computers and it looks fine. None of what you described. |
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01/29/2008 12:54:28 PM · #5 |
I'm guessing it was being viewed through something like AOL or MSN with acceleration turned on.
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01/29/2008 12:56:08 PM · #6 |
| Looks great on my comp... |
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01/29/2008 01:01:49 PM · #7 |
^__^
Thanks guys!! I really did think I was going a bit mad back then, editing a picture and making it look horrid.. Glad I didn't pull it out..
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01/29/2008 01:33:11 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by UrfaTheGreat:
Really sorry for being weird, but during voting I happened to look at my 'best of' entry on another monitor and I was absolutely mortified.. It wasn't a case of looking a bit more darker or slightly lighter.. It looked like complete and utter rubbish.. all pixelated and brightened.. looked like it was taken from a mobile phone from the 90s.. I almost pulled my picture out..
I have absolutely no problems about my average, just wanted to know if it really looks like that for everyone.. am I the one whose monitor is set up all wrong..
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My monitor has been recently calibrated with a Spyder3 and overall, the levels & tones look fine, just seems a bit harsh/too sharp. We easily want to sharpen up a lot in our images, but our brain can play tricks on us in that a softer image can look sharper and more natural. I often will apply a soft focus filter then resharpen. We really don't see as well as our images often look on a monitor in front of us. I have been recently skewing my editing to the softer look, often done simply during resizing using Bicubic smoother or Bicubic, rather than Bicubic Sharper.
Take a look at the before & after here:
-----------Original-------- -------------Edit------------
Open each in a new window, then switch between them in the task bar to see changes.
All I did was to open yours, add a warming filter to shift & richen the tones, then applied a soft focus filter lightly in a new layer via copy (light pass of gaussian blur can do the same), faded it back to suit, then bumped the contrast slightly. Was about a 2 minute process. |
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01/29/2008 01:48:52 PM · #9 |
yeah, i would have to say i like the warmer tones Brad
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01/29/2008 01:50:25 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by leaf:
yeah, i would have to say i like the warmer tones Brad |
I agree.
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01/29/2008 02:27:18 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by leaf:
yeah, i would have to say i like the warmer tones Brad |
I agree. |
ditto ... warmer tones are preferred by me also .. |
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01/29/2008 02:30:56 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by bdenny:
Looks great on my comp... |
No issues here either.
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01/29/2008 02:41:42 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Brad:
Originally posted by UrfaTheGreat:
Really sorry for being weird, but during voting I happened to look at my 'best of' entry on another monitor and I was absolutely mortified.. It wasn't a case of looking a bit more darker or slightly lighter.. It looked like complete and utter rubbish.. all pixelated and brightened.. looked like it was taken from a mobile phone from the 90s.. I almost pulled my picture out..
I have absolutely no problems about my average, just wanted to know if it really looks like that for everyone.. am I the one whose monitor is set up all wrong..
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My monitor has been recently calibrated with a Spyder3 and overall, the levels & tones look fine, just seems a bit harsh/too sharp. We easily want to sharpen up a lot in our images, but our brain can play tricks on us in that a softer image can look sharper and more natural. I often will apply a soft focus filter then resharpen. We really don't see as well as our images often look on a monitor in front of us. I have been recently skewing my editing to the softer look, often done simply during resizing using Bicubic smoother or Bicubic, rather than Bicubic Sharper.
Take a look at the before & after here:
-----------Original-------- -------------Edit------------
Open each in a new window, then switch between them in the task bar to see changes.
All I did was to open yours, add a warming filter to shift & richen the tones, then applied a soft focus filter lightly in a new layer via copy (light pass of gaussian blur can do the same), faded it back to suit, then bumped the contrast slightly. Was about a 2 minute process. |
wow! There is so much stuff, I've never considered before..I'm off to bed now.. but will come back to re-absorb.. *turns into a sponge*
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