Don, > The Philips 200W6CS is a fine screen, I'm still partial to CRTs though, > I feel they are still a better value.
I also prefer CRTs because they're proven technology known to work. > I use a Colorvision Spyder to profile my screen, the very first step is > to set brightness and contrast. Adobe Gamma works the same way. You start with setting the white point. I don't have a Spyder and for my purposes Gamma profiling by the eye was always sufficient. > Having this changed will most likely make it impossible to properly > profile the screen to match print output. That is my fear too. > Have you tried turning on a dim light near the monitor to decrease the > strain on your eyes? Usually it is either daylight from the window or a 60 watt on the ceiling... > I have a small desk light that I turn towards the ceiling at night. > If I don't my eyes are shot after about 1/2 hour of editing. > Just be sure to profile using this setup (which I did) and you > should be OK. I'll keep your suggestions in mind. Currently I am tending towards bringing my computer to the lab and asking the guy to help me tune the monitor properly with my computer and my monitor. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
