Monitor settings
I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with
"free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. |
Monitor settings
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newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. |
Monitor settings
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nospam wrote: In article , newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than Ł500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile or something... If you're "savy" some extra features might be unleashed from this and other calibration hardware by this free softwa https://displaycal.net/#instruments -- teleportation kills |
Monitor settings
newshound:
I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. Your Mac's built-in calibration utility System Preferences Displays will do an excellent job of calibrating your display. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
Monitor settings
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wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. Your Mac's built-in calibration utility System Preferences Displays will do an excellent job of calibrating your display. that's better than a website, but neither is particularly good because they rely on a human eyeball and not a calibrated sensor. |
Monitor settings
On May 15, 2017, Davoud wrote
(in article ): newshound: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. Your Mac's built-in calibration utility System Preferences Displays will do an excellent job of calibrating your display. Why did you assume “newshound” was using a Mac? That is a pretty wild guess considering he is using aWindows NT edition of Thunderbird. -- Regards, Savageduck |
Monitor settings
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Savageduck wrote: On May 15, 2017, Davoud wrote (in article ): newshound: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. Your Mac's built-in calibration utility System Preferences Displays will do an excellent job of calibrating your display. Why did you assume “newshound” was using a Mac? That is a pretty wild guess considering he is using aWindows NT edition of Thunderbird. Windows has an equivalent... Hardware calibration is way better and cheap enough though. Links are posted. -- teleportation kills |
Monitor settings
On 5/15/2017 2:18 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. FWIW the Duck's recent Yosemite pics look good to me, prior to the tweak the gopher and river shots would have been a bit lacking in shadow detail. I don't believe I have any significant visual impairment apart from presbyopia commensurate with my age (68). Any views or suggestions, short of adding a second monitor? I'm not a sufficiently serious user for it being worth getting a proper calibrator. undo whatever you did and don't use some random website to calibrate your display again. Not "some random website". With a bit of experience, it is not too difficult to identify ones which seem to be covering the bases well. And I picked two which were clearly independent, and got similar results from both. I'm currently using settings from the Win 10 tool. A little "brighter" than my original manual settings, but better for text than the previous sites. |
Monitor settings
On 5/15/2017 3:05 PM, android wrote:
In article , I think that there is a tool in W10 for calibrating the display by eye... Anyways: If you are spending more than ÂŁ500 on your camera AND display then: https://www.parkcameras.com/p/V15870...x-rite/colormu nki-smile Thanks for the suggestion, and the price doesn't seem unreasonable, but I have been using cameras for long enough to know that most of the nice "must have" gadgets won't actually make any real difference. I didn't know about the W10 tool, I am currently using the settings from that. or something... If you're "savy" some extra features might be unleashed from this and other calibration hardware by this free softwa https://displaycal.net/#instruments |
Monitor settings
On 5/16/2017 1:30 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On May 15, 2017, Davoud wrote (in article ): newshound: I just tweaked my monitor settings using a couple of the websites with "free" setup images and this has certainly improved my views of photos from a wide variety of sources. However I'm now finding that text in Thunderbird, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. is a bit pale and lacking in contrast. Your Mac's built-in calibration utility System Preferences Displays will do an excellent job of calibrating your display. Why did you assume “newshound” was using a Mac? That is a pretty wild guess considering he is using aWindows NT edition of Thunderbird. I do *sometimes* use this monitor with a Mac, when using Affinity, so I will try that next time. But I am not a heavy post-processor, for my modest needs JPEGs straightened and cropped in Picassa, with perhaps a touch of fill light or colour correction is enough, 99% of the time. |
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