Just wondering what others here do to set their monitors brightness/contrast? I was thinking, a render I do may look good on mine, but too bright or dark on others. Is there a set standard? I have tried the grey scale gradiant (about 10 shades of grey from white to black). But if I set mine to see all 10 clearly, its too bright for most everything else. Any ideas or opinions, etc? -Bruce

Depends on your monitor.LCD ??? However set it how you feel best, because I haven't seen one monitor that shows my websites or art the same.

all is relative even monitors lol

striving, Yes there is a standard, but it looks too bright to most people and thus they set their monitors darker or with age the screen output just gets darker. You might check the archives here. There's a free site somewhere that shows how to adjust your monitor but off hand I don't remember the URL. - TJ

Attached Link: http://bryce-alive.net/calibrate/

Thanks Gog! that's the one I was talking about. there's also a limited time free trial of a software that helps you calibrate which is much better; I had problems getting my monitor in line just using the info there. I would have mentioned that too except my mind is extremely lazy today for some reason. Must be all the turkey; Triptophan?(sp?) Its worth the time you'll spend finding the site from the Bryce archives. - TJ

Thanks all. I will check that out. Appreciate it. -Bruce

I use a program called Colorific for Windows, it sets a standard and can control most monitors for true screen-to-printer matching, as well as matching monitors to other, non-similar monitors... If everyone used Colorific, there would be a true standard. It should be incorporated into the OS, be it Mac or PC or Xbox or whatever... But given the current state of LCD monitors, I can't imagine ever converting to them. Atrocious for games, and they are never quite bright enough for me!

If you want a true standard then already is one, pantone, use a pantone set for setting your printer, you could then calibrate your monitor from the pdf at the URL I mentioned. Problem is if trying to go calibrate all the way to print, papers, ambient light etc all screw things up. The only way to truly calibrate a system is using Light meters etc, (lots of money)

I disagree, Gog. Pantone is just a utility to match colors to themselves, for print, and for matching colors to other printers. While it is effective for SOME uses, such as 4-color CMYK printing, it doesn't take into account more complex processes, such as 6-color or 18-color printing, at all... On the other hand, Colorific incorporates not just Pantone, but every color-correction scheme ever made. True-Internet color, Film-Gamma Color, etc. It also adjusts ICM (internal color management), if you have Windows anyways. I have no idea how that works on a Mac, they have their own set of standards as far as I know, which is why in the production level they are used mainly for ease-of-design, but very rarely for printing. My brother works for a graphics company in Tukwilla, and they use Colorific on their ridiculous half-a-million dollar Vue-Tecs as well as on every computer machine that's not fruit-based. They use Colorific for vinyl, paper, plastic, fiber, metal, wood, and clay printing... Colorific is the mathetmatical true standard, and the professional standard as well for matching monitor to printer. If everyone had it, or it came stock with Windows, we actually would all see the same thing on our monitors, of course allowing that your monitor can handle it and is functioning properly.... But wehn it comes down to, just to placate ya Gog, Colorific is just a software version of a light meter really... (not trying to sound like a Colorific-pusher, i'm really NOT on their payroll I assure you!)

Lol got a URL for Colorific???

Aye, Gog, you can read some more about it at colorific.com...