Monitor Brightness
polycounter lvl 18
I could use some help. Everything looks right to me on this monitor. My work monitor looks great as well. But I recently noticed that my drawings and renders, etc. that look fine on my monitor, look bright and washed out on my screen at work. I showed some co-workers my stuff and it didn't look the same. The room lighting probably plays a role in the difference.
What's the best way to find exactly what settings these displays should be? Any charts I can follow? Also, at what elevation and angle is an LCD best viewed? I noticed my monitor is a shade darker if I move my head up or down some. I want everything to look the way it should...especially my images.
What's the best way to find exactly what settings these displays should be? Any charts I can follow? Also, at what elevation and angle is an LCD best viewed? I noticed my monitor is a shade darker if I move my head up or down some. I want everything to look the way it should...especially my images.
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What's the best way to find exactly what settings these displays should be?
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get a mac?
get a mac?
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Ewwww.
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Thanks. I'll give these a try on both.
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get a mac?
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Ewwww.
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you are retarded
why do you think most print companies use macs?
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get a mac?
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Ewwww.
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you are retarded
why do you think most print companies use macs?
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The only time I've worked with a Mac and printing was probably the single worst computing experience of my life. It was at a skills canada competition for graphics design, and those things had more troubles than I thought possible.
Also, the original reason was that macs were tailored towards graphics and worked better with them from a benchmarking point of view. However, the last study I saw the PC had overtaken them and was actually faster in those things. Might have changed again, but it was not looking likely at that time.
[edit]Oh, and so as not to start another debate on macs versus pc, I really don't think one is better than the other. Personally I find PC much preferable, however I realize that some people enjoy Macs. I just like bugging em, hence the "Ewww.".[/edit]
At work we have a full time guy that callibrates everyone's monitors in the whole studio. When going for a THX certified game the work area lighting has to be a certain way and a THX certification guy will test all the art monitors and will award a pass or fail.
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I'm sorry, but what in the world does THX have to do with color? Aren't they strictly involved with audio? I work with people who color correct films in high definition for petes sake and they have nothing to do with THX whatsoever.
Check out their site. They list "Video equipment requirements and calibration" as one of their services for games.
Most non-artist types either leave their monitors at their shipped defaults, or adjust to their eye. Some games come with monitor setup utils, but generally they don't, and users adjust as they see fit.
get a mac?
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Color management is a factor of the monitor and graphics card, which can vary, even in a mac. So, just getting a Mac might not help you out at all, although they'll probably calibrate it for you before you can buy the machine.
The reason why many print pros use Macs is that they tend to handle large Photoshop files better, due to memory usage. That and the fact that until recently, Adobe used to design new apps for Macs first is the reason why print pros still use Macs.