Quote - moriador: Yeah, my friend's monitor was one of the older ones, and when i was looking at 3d art on it, not only was everything too bright, but there was like a dull gray to the pictures, like the gamma was set too high. This was on default settings. The background of this forum was a very light gray too.

But there definitely was a problem on my end. When i did that werewolf render, at least 95% told me it was washed out, but i wasn't noticing it because my monitor is much darker than most LCD's. The other 5% told me they turned their brightness down a lot because it gave them headaches or hurt the eyes. After all the help here though, and using comparisons on other people's LCD's with my CRT, i think i've gotten pretty close to what i should be seeing, which involved me increasing my brightness from my video card settings by 25-30%. This was particularly problematic in the brightness of colors. Like in picture A i posted. On my monitor it was a dark orange hue on his face that looked really nice. But everyone was telling me it looked tan or light orange. Which still looked nice on the LCD, but wasn't what i intended.

I get you. Perhaps the solution is to have two monitors. One that is adjusted to your gaming and viewing preferences, and one that either 1 - gives you an idea of what most crappy monitors out there show or 2 - is well calibrated for the purpose of print making. Because, frankly, trying to get a single monitor to fulfil all your needs may be asking too much.

I can't imagine working with only one monitor any more. Well, I guess if it were 40", I might have enough work space. :) My secondary monitor cost me less than $100. I use it to test images that will be posted on the web to see how most people will likely see them, to hold the "tools" in my software interfaces, and to allow me to very easily transfer data from multiple documents.

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