Forum: Photography


Subject: The importance of setting monitor gamma!

Misha883 opened this issue on Nov 09, 2002 ยท 15 posts


ChuckEvans posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 9:11 PM

LOL @ Michelle A. There was a discussion of this somewhere about 5 or 6 months ago. I think the Poser forum. It's a problem when people who tend to be serious about their gamma and monitor calibrate and post pics generated on their PC only to discover it sucks when viewed on (some) other monitors. I work in the IT section and I also do a lot of graphic work for various offices (not that I am good...just that the others are that bad!). Lots of times, my pics or website will come up in a conversation when I am at the workstation of a customer...and naturally we "go" to take a look at some of my stuff. I'm amazed at how varied the shades and colors look from what I "tuned" on my monitor. So, face it, while lots of people here may want to make sure their monitor is calibrated, there will be lots more who don't care and that barely perceptible image in dark shade or that near-white image on a white background will just disappear. It's just the nature of the beasst (beast = monitors in this case).