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Old 10-30-2002, 02:53 PM   #1
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Monitor Calibration




Out of happenstance this morning, while roaming through the forum, Cynthia (our wonderfully transparent, until you truly need her, head of all monitors) suggested to me that I might take the time to calibrate my monitor.

I quickly jumped over to Virgil's site and did the gray scale calibration. Yikes! It now seems apparent to me that everything I have posted, and everthing I have viewed, is bogus by a significant amount. I assumed that my scanner just had a mind of its own and so I would re-jigger the brightness and whatever else to bring the image to what I thought was true. My only hope is that everyone else is out of adjustment by the same degree in the opposite direction.

How 'bout this: We somehow steal, beg, or borrow Virgil's gray scale. When you get your ticket to join the forum this would be one of the required stops along the path. Members could stop by for a tune up every now and then.

Maybe I'm the only d.a. here and everyone else keeps their monitors well tuned. It just seems reasonable, however, that if we are going to judge one another as we do, we should at least all be seeing the same apple.
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Old 10-30-2002, 04:20 PM   #2
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Mike,

Actually, what I was talking about is a manual lightness/darkness adjustment on your monitor...usually buttons of some type or a dial. As I understand, true calibration is a software adjustment, but perhaps I'm misinformed.
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Old 10-30-2002, 06:10 PM   #3
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Cynthia,

That is what I did, I adjusted my monitor buttons until I could read the gray scale correctly. Calibrate, adjust?
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