I just got a 19 inch flat screen monitor. When I looked at poser images I've done, they were incredibly lighter then they were on my old monitor. I tried the adobe gamma program but it didn't seem very effective. I tried the calibration tutorial here with the same result. It then got me thinking that images I put in the gallery or my website could be a lot darker or lighter to the viewer then they are to me. Which sucks big time as we all spend alot of time getting the light nuances correct and to think that is potentially all in vain is a drag. So is there any advice as to a progam or way that I can calibrate my monitor to some kind of standard that would minimize variations with other monitors. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help. Bill

Pantone has a few hardware monitor calibration kits. I just got one the other day. It helped some, but I have 2 different monitors and even after the calibration I played with one screen a bit so it better matched the other. One problem is that even if your monitor is spot-on, perfectly calibrated, very few other people's monitors are. And MAC vs. PC monitors are also different in how they display things. In other words, ya can't win. ;-) Cheers!

A good first aid can be found at www.dpreview.com . It's a set of greyscales, and you should ideally see the difference between all of them. Also take into account the reflection of the room and of what you wear, the light conditions,... Ideally, you should calibrate your monitor every forthnight. The main problem with flatscreens is that when you look at the monitor and make your nck a bit longer or shorter, you get completely different contrast/lightness, and there is no way to make shure that you are looking each time under the exact same angle. So there is no conctancy. Not even on the most expensive models. Their contrast ratio is also (still) lower than a good CRT's. So you won't see the same saturated blacks or whitey whites. Should you happen to own Photshop, then you have a good calibrating app.

Adobe Gamma is for CRTs only - if you want to set up an LCD you need a hardware device.

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How old was your old monitor? It may have been fading; this could be the reason the new one seems so much brighter. In any event, I agree with Crescent. While accurate monitor calibration is absolutely necessary for print, you can forget matching every other monitor out there.

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