Tony Sleep wrote:
>
> > Just a quick comment regarding monitor adjustment.
>
> I don't disagree Art. It was just that it's something which should be got
> out of the way at the outset, and mightn't have occurred to someone who is
> new to all this.
>
Fair enough. My reason for making my comment is that the other side of
the coin is that people who are new to this can be easily mislead by
professionals (scan providers or peripheral manufacturers) into thinking
that the problem is "their monitor" and therefore misdirect the
culprit. As important as monitor calibration is for "mission critical"
work, most monitors/video cards can be set up by eye to be in the
ballpark without a calibration device. I just want people to understand
that if results are vastly different with a device than what the person
usually sees, it is unlikely the monitor causing the majority of the
problem.
> Curiously enough, the worst, most worn out and least calibrated monitors I
> have ever seen have been on the desks of graphic designers <g>.
Likely due to those funny smelling cigarettes most of "them" smoke late
hours. Either that or they have such good color memory that they
mentally compensate for the monitor and end up with perfect output in
spite of it all.
Art
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