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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Cheers for that Calibrator Phil  ...
See? that version you reworked definitely looks clipped on my screen, soooo the images I have been posting since having this monitor must have looked quite white and washed out on soem screens  ...Hmmm? what do do...? This image (like many of my NB work) has been absolutely loved by some, even had the comment "your best image yet" ??  while others haven't liked it so much  so monitors and personal taste are clearly at play here  ...bloody narrowband...
Mike |
Attached image shows the Levels dialog in Photoshop for your full image. The histogram does not touch the black edge and the 'hump' is quite shifted to the right. On a good quality monitor, that should look a little 'grey' even in the darkest parts.
Pushing the black point up 10 is about right, but even up to 20 does not actually clip much data but the image does start to look a little clipped. It might ideally be done with a curves adjustment to spread out the dark end rather than a fairly crude levels adjustment.
Lots of monitors cannot display full range of blacks/whites and so display many images as clipped in either or both ends.
Checkout this page:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS.../CALIBRATE.HTM
On my main monitor I can (just) see every step on both the white and black test charts. But on my crummy netbook screen, I cannot see anything in the bottom half of both test charts.
Phil