More detail with an LCD, so…?

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Derek Fountain
Sep 5, 2006
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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?

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Robert
Sep 8, 2006
"Derek Fountain" wrote in message
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.
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Nicholas Sherlock
Sep 10, 2006
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


http://www.sherlocksoftware.org

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