I only just realized a few days ago, when I saw one of my images on someone else's monitor, that my images can look very different depending on the brightness setting of the monitor. Some images that I thought were pretty good look like crap on a brighter or darker screen. So I was wondering, is there a standard or average brightness that most people are using? I have an emachine monitor and it's set to 89% (whatever that means). Any adivce appreciated.

yeah i just checked they are alittle dark on mine too...and i have my brightness and contrast set too 100...maybe you need a new monitor or a better one ? i have a cmv witch also comes with images settings text settings etc etc...i just use the image setting good luck

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I wrote a small piece on my website concerning monitor gamma, with a few really useful links. There is confusion concering gamma and arguments to use a gamma of 1.8 (print standard), 2.2 (sRGB standard), or a compromise of 2.0 for web. It is a bit of a minefield when creating images just for the web, because you can have people view your images from a range of 1.8 (approx Mac standard) to 2.5 (average uncalibrated PC setting). Don't feel too daunted by all the information, it is worth the effort to see images in all their glory. Even with my conservative and play safe settup of a gamma of 2.0, about 50% of the images I view are horribly washed out, and I imagine that to many people with an uncalibrated monitor and system my images seem dark. Hope this helps. Cheers

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I found it worthwhile to buy a monitor calibrator (Pantone Spyder 2 for about U$170). Have my whitepoint at 6500K and gamma at 2.2. While this won't make my images look good on the out of adjustment monitors, they will be correct on many (properly adjusted) monitors and i can tell my clients that i'm using international standards. Same reason i run code validator software against my CSS and HTML work. And more Renderosity images look good now than before calibration, so quite a few Rendo artists must be "well adjusted".

There is not "THE absolute setting". Those settings depend a lot on your environment. How the light situation is where the monitor stands. Each monitor needs regular calibration. As working for print i calibrate my monitors so that they are as close as possible to the printed results i have created. Gives a good indication then about the final result. But one thing i learned. Never trust what you see, it will look different on another system (or in print). Wasn't there the joke about NTSC? As abbreviation for "Never The Same Color"? Windows systems normally use a gamma of 2.2, Macs 1.8 - the rest you must do with a calibration program. There are good and better ones out there.

Thanks for all the advice, guys.

Also, men see color differently than do women. As men grow older, their ability to differentiate gradations in colors deteriorates.

lol paula thats a joke i know it

Sorry - I am not kidding. Just do a web search and you will see that many more men than women suffer from color blindness of one degree or another. Also as people age, their color sensitivity changes.

I can confirm what Paula says...and being a professional artist, thank god my colour blindness doesn't cause me too many problems lol. Cheers

lol cheers...good one!!!