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[MrPing1000]

Hmm this is something I've been noticing for a long time now.

Take for example this picture

(thanks suerte)

In this picture I can barely see anything just about make out the right outline of his face and his left eye. Cannot see his forehead at all. But if I highlight the picture I can see it better. It only happens with pictures though, my desktop is bright and the same thing for when I play games. Sign of a shitty monitor? It is kinda old (must be 4 years or so)

 

[demi]

Suerte can't take pictures worth shiaaat:

A quick run in Photoshop (Auto Levels) and voila!

 

[MrPing1000]

I can see that fine, it happens in game screenies a lot as well.

or take this one

left of the 2nd ridge above his nose to the light bit excluding his eye is one black blob, if I highlight it I can see much more detail.

And below the tip of the bat symbol (I can't quite see the bottom of it) its a black blob again like most of his cloak cept for the shoulders

 

[DaCocoBrova]

GammaGammaGammaGammaGamma

 

[MrPing1000]

GammaGammaGammaGammaGamma

if i put that up everything is too bright though

 

[DaCocoBrova]

You need to go into your display properties and trade off gamma for brightness or vice versa. What card do you have? Slight incremental adjustments should make a big difference.

 

[gblues]

You might need to have your monitor calibrated. If you've got Photoshop, it installs a control panel you can use to color-calibrate your monitor yourself. It won't be as accurate as a hardware-based calibration technique, but it'll be good enough for what you need.

I dunno if there's a standalone version of the calibration tool, though. So if you don't have Photoshop, I don't know where else to get it.

Nathan

 

[MrPing1000]

You need to go into your display properties and trade off gamma for brightness or vice versa. What card do you have? Slight incremental adjustments should make a big difference.

9800pro

 

[Burger]

Wrong wrong wrong wrong.

Adjusting the gamma will just wash out your image. It *WILL* aleviate the problem, but your black level is still screwed.

What brand monitor do you have ? The fact is that with age CRT monitors will get darker and darker. You are seeing the early stages of this, you can't really tell from bright things like webpages, but it's becoming very noticable at the lower end of the spectrum.

It's only going to get worse, I put up with it for years and I wish I hadn't seeing as how monitors are so cheap. I threw my 5yr old Phillips 17" out and got a Viewsonic 19" LCD. The difference is striking.