Further on adjusting your monitor. If it is LCD make sure you are sitting squarely in front of it and that is pointing directly at your face.

First thing is they were designed and built by geeks - so the contrast control is for adjusting brightness and the brightness control is for adjusting darkness.

Go to Kort's site:
http://www.kramerkreations.com/

On there you will find a bar of b/w tones about halfway down.

Looking at this turn up your contrast control to full and your brightness control to full.

Then using the contrast control adjust it slowly downwards until you can see the last two squares at the bright end of the bar of tones are different. The white should still be white but the next one in is a dirty white.

Now using the brightness control turn that slowly down until the last dark square merges into the background, but you can just about see the next square is different to the background.

Check to make sure you can still see the white squares ok, If not you may have to adjust the contrast just a fraction so that you can.

This will give you a well adjusted monitor. It is not calibrating it as suggested above, because you would need to buy a calibration device for that, but it is adjusted so you get the most out of it without calibrating.

 

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
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