Take a word of advice from me and set everything to 1.00
in the Monitor Gamma Dialog. You'll be glad you did. The
reason is this. The adjustment only influences how images
appear in PSP. If you adjust images with the Monitor
Gamma in effect, they may look fine in PSP but will look
wrong in every other piece of software. (There is another
issue related to the color patches appearing incorrectly
at some resolution settings in Windows, making your
settings unreliable. I can't say if this influences your
situation.) You would be better off adjusting your monitor
using the calibration images available for download here:
http://www.jasc.com/monitor1.asp. This will optimize your
viewing for all applications.
As for your observations about how images look, I would
expect them to look very much brighter with a gamma of 1.5.
This is a pretty dramatic difference by image processing
standards unless your images were unusually dark. In
Colors > Adjust > Gamma Correction or in Colors >
Histogram Functions > Histogram Adjustment I would not
expect to have to increase gamma to more that 1.2 or 1.3
for a decent original image. None of this necessarily means
very much unless your monitor is properly adjusted.
Quote:> After seeing a posting discussing this adjustment I looked it
> up in the Paint Shop Manual. I opened the gamma window and the inner
> squares in the Red, Green and Blue settings were much darker than the
> outside areas. Per the manual "drag the red, green, and blue slider
> controls to adjust the dittered areas until they are of equal
> brightness". The dithered areas are the outside rectangle so I
> assume that means to adjust the sliders until the inner rectangle
> blends in with the outer rectangle. I can do this. The red
> adjustment is 1.64. Green is 1.54 and Blue is 1.88. The inner
> rectangle in the last block is matched well too. Some of my pictures
> look different then they did (these were done some time ago) and the
> more recent ones look okay for color but seem a little light now. Am
> I doing this adjustment right? Do the numbers sound about right?
> TIA
> Hank/ NC
> Response by e-mail not expected but to respond remove
> anti-spam ending ".uk"
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