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Adjust Your Monitor
The images have been reduced in size, downgraded to 72dpi, converted from TIFF to JPEG format, and then compressed - all to improve display times. I also can’t control the configuration of your monitor - maybe your monitor is darker than mine or maybe it is adjusted a little more on the blue side than mine or whatever. Besides there is no way that an image being actively projected at your eyes from a monitor is going to look the same as one viewed by reflected light on a piece of paper and since I tend to aim all my processing toward printing there is bound to be some difference. Hopefully we aren’t too far off though. One thing that can help is to adjust your monitor using standardized target images. Below are two images that you can use. Target 1: Adjust your monitor's brightness and contrast so that you can see a difference between all 13 shades of grey. You have to look real close sometimes especially at the extreme ends. Some monitors may be better than others and you may not get all 13 - do the best you can. This is the most important setting. Get this one down and you can probably skip the rest of this page. If you are the persnickety type, read on. Look at the blocks and see that they are neutral white, grey, and black and do not have a blue or yellow or whatever tint to them. If they are tinted, adjust your monitor's color temperature until they are neutral. You may have to get your monitor or video card instructions out to learn how your system handles this setting. Let's hope it never comes to that.
Target 2: This image helps you check your monitor's gamma setting. I won't go into the details of what gamma is since I would probably be wrong anyway. Suffice it to say that your average Windows type monitor should have a gamma close to 2.2. I think Macs are usually around 1.8. Look at the image below from a long way away or squint your eyes. One of the blocks should blend with the background and sort of disappear. The number in the blended block is your monitor gamma. Again, you may need your monitor and/or video card manual to figure out how to adjust the gamma on your machine.
Here are a few other links on the fascinating topic of monitor adjustment and color management. http://photographerusa.com/screencheck/index.html http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/viewing.html
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