The jpg didn't look right in the thread below this. Mabey you need to view the jpg. out of the browser. Here's a try. If you save it from this screen and cannot see any text in the grey, this won't work for you. Sorry I tried. Here goes. I had always wondered myself why some peoples images look light or too dark online. Photoshop has a calibrator available under the help pull down menu, but even still this works great. Here is a picture I use to make sure my mintor brightness isn't too dark or light. 1)Turn off the all lights except monitor. Pull shades 2) View picture against a dark background. 3) In each region is a line of text saying "Can you see this" 4) If you can't see it in black. Monitor brightness is too high 5) If you can't see it in white---setting to light 6) An ideal setting will either allow you to hardly see the text in the black and white region. Or both lines of text will be invisible. 7) the two lines in the grey region should be equall to each other in difficulty to read. 8) Tweek the brighness setting on your monitor while viewing the image.

"I had always wondered myself why some peoples images look light or too dark online" Bear in mind (as I'm sure you know) that the Macs use a different gamma setting, by design- Mac images look dark and contrasty on a PC, PC images look light and washed-out on a Mac. But your adjustment idea is still good, some people still adjust far from the "correct" gamma. When I teach PhotoShop Advanced I do the monitor settings, but I tell my students it is a can of worms, and I am suprised how "uncalibrated" many peoples eyes are- even with me standing behind them, prompting them, they still come up with distinctly "weird" setting!

Attached Link: http://www.brycetech.com/pagestuff/calbar.jpg

There are 20 color bars above...ranging from Black to White. If you can not see all 20 bars, you need to adjust your monitor's brightness and contrast until all 20 are visible. Not doing so, can result in images appearing too light or too dark. this has become a "standard" on many sites in the bryce community since its showing...and its something that should accompany any image that may be "questionably" dark. It accompanies many of the images at my site and the game "driven" made with Bryce and Raydream thats there too. BT http://www.brycetech.com/ BT

heyas; well, a gif would work better for greyscale ;) i can see the grey text okay. hmm, now i can see the white text, but not black. bummer. and i can see 19 1/2 bars on bt's scale... i think i'm doing pretty good. ;) hmmm... should that be 'if you can't see it in black, monitor brightness is too LOW'? ;) i turned up the brightness 'til i could see the words in the black, but that makes the black background of the page lighter than the black in your image. i rather insist on the black of 'empty' space being as black as it can be. ah well.

Bloodsong, you are right it should say "Low". When I'm tired I type too fast and forget to re-read. There is a lighter black around the black section. The text in black shouldn't be clear, just as hard to read as the white.