Computer Graphics with Photoshop - More detail with an LCD, so...?

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More detail with an LCD, so...?

Derek Fountain

2006-09-05, 6:17 pm

I have a 22" CRT monitor in storage at home in Australia. When I moved
to England I bought an LCD monitor. It's not as good as my beloved CRT,
but it works well enough.

I noticed when I started using the LCD that it shows more details.
Images that looked fine when I created them on the CRT now look over
sharpened, and I can see JPEG artifact banding in skies that I couldn't
see on the CRT.

I never really worried about it until now, when someone else mentioned
exactly the same thing in rec.photo.digital. It got me wondering what I
do when I get back to my CRT monitor. If I just carry on as before, I'll
know that people looking at my images on an LCD monitor are seeing
banding and other artifacts that I can't see. Other than arranging some
workflow that involves proofing on an LCD monitor, what can I do to
counteract this?

Robert

2006-09-12, 10:17 pm

"Derek Fountain" <nomail@hursley.ibm.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 22" CRT monitor in storage at home in Australia. When I moved to
>England I bought an LCD monitor. It's not as good as my beloved CRT, but it
>works well enough.
>
> I noticed when I started using the LCD that it shows more details. Images
> that looked fine when I created them on the CRT now look over sharpened,
> and I can see JPEG artifact banding in skies that I couldn't see on the
> CRT.
>
> I never really worried about it until now, when someone else mentioned
> exactly the same thing in rec.photo.digital. It got me wondering what I do
> when I get back to my CRT monitor. If I just carry on as before, I'll know
> that people looking at my images on an LCD monitor are seeing banding and
> other artifacts that I can't see. Other than arranging some workflow that
> involves proofing on an LCD monitor, what can I do to counteract this?

Is the banding and artifact really there or is the sharpening an artifact of
the LCD.

I noticed that the color on my LCD varies greatly depending on the angle I
look at it. With a 24inch, there is a drastic angle distance from side to
side. I need to sit quite a way from it to keep the angular variation down.

Nicholas Sherlock

2006-09-12, 10:17 pm

Derek Fountain wrote:
> I noticed when I started using the LCD that it shows more details.
> Images that looked fine when I created them on the CRT now look over
> sharpened, and I can see JPEG artifact banding in skies that I couldn't
> see on the CRT.

Many (Most?) LCDs cannot display the full 24-bit colour, they can often
only display 65K colours, which gives the awful banding effects that you
describe.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

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