Re: [APML] Monitor settings

["Mike Cook, AF9Y" <mwcook@concentric.net>]

Michael,

    What color space were you using in PhotoShop when you made your
tests?


From:           	"mstecker" <mstecker@dslextreme.com>
To:             	<astro-photo@seds.org>
Subject:        	Re: [APML] Monitor settings
Date sent:      	Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:40:44 -0800
Send reply to:  	astro-photo@seds.org

> Hello Warren:
>      I also find monitor calibration a difficult task.  I do not have a Compaq computer,
>      but use an IBM clone with Windows 98.  Supposedly the Adobe Gamma is supposed to
>      calibrate your monitor to their standard (ICC).  I find two problems with this.  The
>      first is that a lot of people don't use it and the second is that the calibration
>      parameter is nebulous or uncertain when you adjust the brightness of your monitor in
>      Adobe Gamma.  I have the contrast on my Viewsonic Graphic Series G771 set at 100 and
>      the brightness set at 90 (unfortunately some of the newer Viewsonic monitors do not
>      have quantitative settings).  Some months ago I ran a test on two monitors (my
>      Viewsonic and a Samsung).  They were both calibrated with Adobe Gamma and I tried to
>      make several web page photos using both monitors.  I adjusted the images in Photoshop
>      so they would look the same on both monitors.  I then published both sets of photos
>      on a single web page and asked several people to view these images on their monitors
>      over the internet. The responses were quite variable.  Some liked those prepared on
>      my Viewsonic, some the Samsung and one person thought they were equal.  This just
>      shows you how variable monitor calibration is.
> 
> 
> Michael Stecker
> mstecker@dslextreme.com
> 
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> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Warren Keller 
>   To: apml 
>   Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 8:23 PM
>   Subject: [APML] Monitor settings
> 
> 
>   Hi guys,
>                I asked this awhile back, but with no responses, thought I'd try again. I
>                find every online step wedge to be quite different and in fact the various
>                representations of Chuck's does not look the same in several mirrored
>                sites. Even my scanner's program has one. It is for this reason that I am
>                constantly adjusting and am never convinced my processing is 'right'. If I
>                set to Chuck's, my eyeballs get ripped from their sockets.
> 
>   I believe my Adobe gamma stored settings are good, but I'd still like some of you,
>   especially Compaq owners, to just look at their monitor's Brightness/Contrast settings
>   and tell me what ballpark you're running at. 
> 
>   Thank you! Warren
> 



Mike Cook, AF9Y
http://www.webcom.com/af9y
mwcook@cris.com




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