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Evan Werkema wrote: > Unfortunately, there's one other element over which the scanner > artist has little control - the machine the viewer uses to view > the image. I discovered just how great the variation from > system to system can be when I was putting together some simple > web pages a few months ago. I took the images off my PhotoCD and > played with the brightness/contrast until they looked "right" on > my display. After the pages were up on the site, I went around > to various other computers to see how the pages looked. To my > surprise, the images looked washed-out on most of the machines I > tried, and the color registration varied greatly as well. As I > browse the web, I often come across pictures that look dark or just > "funny." I used to wonder what the web authors were thinking, but > now I wonder if they were just tweeking their pictures until they > looked "right" on their systems, too. Here is the answers and the partial solutions to that problem: http://www.cgsd.com/papers/gamma.html We should be so lucky that people will actually read and try to understand this. If you do, I would start off by reading the section: 'An Explanation of Monitor Gamma', which is the first one in the third section down the page. Dave Cohen Photographer, Member ASMP Action Photographic Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/home/ ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
