| Jethro 2007-01-10, 6:20 pm |
| On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:29:47 GMT, Jethro <Wilson@somewhere.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:05:34 +1100, Rob <mesa@mine.com> wrote:
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>Can you tell me what you get for 'uptodate' screen drivers? What dies
>such a driver really do?
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>I just bought a 22" wide-screen LCD monitor, and am playing with
>photos. Right off the bat I notice that the photos are elongated
>horizontally (to fill the full screen-width I guess). As a result, I
>have to agree that 'What you see on a wide-screen might not be what
>you'd see on another screen or in print'. In fact, the photos are NOT
>elongated on the printed paper, and so look quite good,
>proportionally, to the original - BUT NOT QUITE THE SAME AS THE SCREEN
>IMAGE. It even causes me to wonder if I draw a circle on the screen,
>and then print it, will I still get a circle? I haven't done that
>yet, but I plan to.
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>I don't know how much this distortion would affect trying to edit
>photos in Pshop, but I fear it might. I am sitting here trying to
>decide if I made a wrong move buying the widescreen LCD, since I
>wanted to use it in part for photo editing.
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>This is why I ask you - would a correct screen driver render a screen
>image without elongation? And how would it show up? Would the screen
>window itself be what it used to be on my old VGA monitor? Namely
>quite square?
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>Now maybe I am 'way off-base here, and the image-elongation would not
>negatively affect me. What do you think about all this? Should
>widescreens be used for graphic editing?
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>Thanks
>
>Jethro
>
I just made a test in Pshop. I created a new window with a close to
perfect circle in it. The circle was filled with black. I printed it
and lo - I got a vertical ellipse, not a circle. This, despite the
fact that print preview showed the perfect circle. I really expected
this, and it seems logical that this would happen, since the printed
image was not wide. But if WHYSINWYG. then how can one do effective
editing?
Thanks
Jethro
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