When I used a CRT, I got almost perfect color matching with prints. I could actually hold the prints up next to the same image displayed on the monitor, and they matched. I have never succeeded in getting the same fidelity with an LCD. I expect a little variance these days. However, CRTs do lose considerable brightness with age.

Images I create look quite different in Photoshop, Irfanview, Windows Media Player, and Firefox. So if I'm seeing significant variation in the appearance of an image depending on software, even when using the same monitor, you have to see how impossible a task it is to ensure your viewers, on a different machine, see what you see on yours.

The lighting in the room changes my perception of an image. Also, what I've been doing all day also changes it. If i just went out for a run on a sunny afternoon, it will take hours before my perception of color/contrast/etc stabilizes, even if I sit in a dark room. I've spent painstaking hours converting color photos to b&W (and doing a little manipulation here and there), only to look at the same photo a day later and think it too bright or too dark and so on. Right now, I'm having to rework hundreds of these photos, as my monitor is picking up artifacts that were invisible to me before.

Your images all look within the correct range of colors and contrasts to me. However, in those where you show two varieties of the same image (B&C, F&G), I would probably layer them together to get a midpoint between them.

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