Increasing Brightness

[jorisbens]

I'm trying to calibrate my monitor manually (those spectometers are a bit to expensive), but at maximum brightness my monitor isn't bright enough to see the difference between the three darkest squares on these things:

So is there a way to increase brightness even more?

Joris

 

[Pherdinand]

Yeah
turn off lights in the room
🙂

It's not only the light/dark stuff. My new lcd monitor can reproduce the differences between those sqyuares, and still, contrast sucks on real images.

A friend of mine comes over today or tomorrow with a Spyder calibratiion device he just bought. He is exalted about the results on his laptop screen. I';m curious about it.

 

[RML]

Let us know your experiences, Csab'! I too can see all the shaeds on my laptop and I too often hear my photos are too dark.

 

[J. Borger]

Spyder or other callibration devise is the (only) way to go!
Besides Laptops are not the best option for editing images.

 

[RML]

I only have laptops. I can't stand the waste of space of regular pc's and monitors. 🙂

 

[Pherdinand]

RML - buy an iMac!😀

OK, i've seen the difference before/after the calibration on my friend's laptop screen. It IS impressive.
ANd there's a considerable difference between images with attached icc profiles read by a software that can read the profiles - like PS - and by a software that cannot read them - like IrfanView - .
Still have to see MY screen adjusted with the images and colours I am used to.

 

[jaapv]

Color Spyder rocks. I bought one when the prints of a series that were perfect on my screen came back bright green...Far fewer trouble since.... There seems to be a new version at about 90$ that has a little sensor that adjusts the monitor to ambient light.