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Hi All, My web site has a number of large-ish Jpegs on it. These have been rendered either in Poser6 or LW8.5 , then post processed in Photoshop CS. Re-touched, hair fixed, text added, sharpened, etc.... Then, twice a week, I upload them to my site. The jpegs look great on MY monitor (Dell LCD), my wife's monitor (Samsung LCD), my daughter's monitor(Sony Trinitron), and a couple of laptops I've checked. But, on the PC's where I work, the jpegs look miserable! Way too dark. The company has hundreds of these old, no-brand PC's with cheap Savage 3d graphics, and seven year old Samsung 17" monitors. Nobody's emailed me and asked why the renderings look rotten. Could my company just have lucked out and hit on the one graphics/monitor combo that can't handle jpegs correctly?? Is there some Image Ready trick to optimize things? I don't know quite what to make of this. Thanks! Gordon

Your image looks great to me! Don't know what to tell ya!;o)

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Well, that's good!! I hope they look great to everyone. I dunno. It may be those flaky old Samsung SyncMasters they have at work. Or, the no-brand PC's were improperly calibrated? I think our NetOps people spec'ed those machines out, and had them built by some econo operation. Like I say, there are hundreds of them around the company, and every one I've checked displays my renderings way too dark. I work on a UNIX w/station most of the time. Only use the PC for MS Office, email, and the internet. It's just kind of hard to explain to my co-workers why my site looks so miserable.

Looks Great on my monitor Gordon_S.
And Thank You for ending my night with a smile!!

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That's my goal in life! To help lighten things up. Everyone takes things so deathly SERIOUSLY these days. Life's too short for that. I just checked the image display for my site on a couple of other computers. On a UNIX box, with an ancient version of Netscape for UNIX on it, the jpegs display properly. Everything else is scrambled all over the page, though. Probably because it's about a 5 or 6 year old Netscape version. Or Unix's display parameters are just too different. On a Dell laptop, the jpegs look fine, too. Hmmm... I hate to just assume that they look okay everywhere except where I work. Should probably do a forum survey or something.

Looks just fine :) Tihomir

Color calibration is something you'll have to live with. I've had the same problem, but in a way so has everyone. A lot of the cheaper LCD monitors wash colors out, etc. and differing gammas and phosphor properties mix things up a treat. Something that looks good at home can look like absolute crap on other monitors, but you just can't control that with JPG (which doessn't embed ICC info).

I checked, as well... Four different makes of monitor, ranging from View sonic to Dell... even my daughter's sys at her place...E-machine.... looks good to me.... I like your sense of humor, too.... those are FUNNY. Lou.

I'm sorry, I don't get the joke. I thought that dead mimes were a good thing. Anyway, your work looks good on my end. A Compaq flat-screen.

Looks good on mine - HP 19" CRT. That's funny! -Lew ;-)

cheap shitty no-name brand monitors... there ya go, you answered your own question. Plus these monitors are probably getting a lot more use than yours at home and elsewhere, AND the settings are all going to be wacko anyway, so no wonder stuff looks crap the same goes for the PC's that we have at the school where I teach - all sorts of crappy looking screen as the kids stuff up the settings and generally abuse them

SeanE's, lundqvist's and Karosnikov's monitor walk into a bar.... and even with colour calibration they would have observable differences (not funny but horrificly true)