Photoshop on a 20 inch monitor at 1600 x1200?

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Apr 20, 2006
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How will photoshop look on a 20 inch monitor at
1600 x1200? Thanks

I am looking to get a Samsung SyncMaster Monitor (204B)

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Roy G
Apr 21, 2006
"BOB" wrote in message
How will photoshop look on a 20 inch monitor at
1600 x1200? Thanks

I am looking to get a Samsung SyncMaster Monitor (204B)
Hi.

It will look fine.

However the only likely problem is that some of the text in the dialogue and palettes may be rather small, and might be difficult to read, depending on how good your eyesight is or isn’t.

Roy G
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BOB
Apr 21, 2006
I also want to do web design, so I guess if text will be small maybe I should look for an lcd with a smaller resolution. I want an lcd monitor(19 to 20 inches) with with a high contrast ratio, good brightness and can produce true color(16.7 million colors) I can find a lot that produce 16.2 million colors though. Do you know of an lcd monitor that will meet my needs? I am seriously getting into web design and photo retouching(career wise) I was hoping to get an lcd monitor, but I may need to get a crt, so I can lower the resolution and still have quality. This is one I was looking at.(21" SyncMaster CRT Monitor model# 1100MB ). Thank again for your help. Bob

"Roy G" wrote in message
"BOB" wrote in message
How will photoshop look on a 20 inch monitor at
1600 x1200? Thanks

I am looking to get a Samsung SyncMaster Monitor (204B)
Hi.

It will look fine.

However the only likely problem is that some of the text in the dialogue and palettes may be rather small, and might be difficult to read, depending on how good your eyesight is or isn’t.

Roy G
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Mister Max
Apr 21, 2006
I have the Samsung 213T, which is 21" 1600 x 1200. The usual text is too small for me, so I run at 1280 x 960. Photoshop doesn’t seem to suffer from being run at less than the native resolution. 32 bit color, too. It’s much better than the old 19"Sony Trinitron monitor next to it; brighter, darker, sharper. I’m not one of those that says a CRT is better, not at all.

– Max

"BOB" posted:

I also want to do web design, so I guess if text will be small maybe I should look for an lcd with a smaller resolution. I want an lcd monitor(19 to 20 inches) with with a high contrast ratio, good brightness and can produce true color(16.7 million colors) I can find a lot that produce 16.2 million colors though. Do you know of an lcd monitor that will meet my needs? I am seriously getting into web design and photo retouching(career wise) I was hoping to get an lcd monitor, but I may need to get a crt, so I can lower the resolution and still have quality. This is one I was looking at.(21" SyncMaster CRT Monitor model# 1100MB ). Thank again for your help. Bob

"Roy G" wrote in message
"BOB" wrote in message
How will photoshop look on a 20 inch monitor at
1600 x1200? Thanks

I am looking to get a Samsung SyncMaster Monitor (204B)
Hi.

It will look fine.

However the only likely problem is that some of the text in the dialogue and palettes may be rather small, and might be difficult to read, depending on how good your eyesight is or isn’t.

Roy G


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Roy G
Apr 21, 2006
"BOB" wrote in message
How will photoshop look on a 20 inch monitor at
1600 x1200? Thanks

I am looking to get a Samsung SyncMaster Monitor (204B)
Hi.

The best workaround to get high res for the image area, and to still be able to read the text on Palettes etc, is to get 2 Monitors. A big High Res for the Image and a small Low Res for the Tools etc.

Roy G
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nomail
Apr 21, 2006
Mister Max wrote:

I have the Samsung 213T, which is 21" 1600 x 1200. The usual text is too small for me, so I run at 1280 x 960. Photoshop doesn’t seem to suffer from being run at less than the native resolution. 32 bit color, too. It’s much better than the old 19"Sony Trinitron monitor next to it; brighter, darker, sharper. I’m not one of those that says a CRT is better, not at all.

I have an Apple 23 inch Cinema and a Dell 21 inch display next to each other. Both are set to their native resolution of 1200 pixels high, so the Apple runs at 1960 x 1200 and the Dell at 1600 x 1200 pixels. Text and Photoshop pallettes are no problem at all, the size seems similar to my older smaller monitors. Maybe you need reading glasses? 😉


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BOB
Apr 21, 2006
Thanks for all the replies. I have a dual monitor set up now, but I want better monitors. I have an 8 year old 15" Proview crt and a 6 year old 17" ViewSonic A70 crt. I never had a problem with either. I want to keep the A70 and get something bigger for web designing and graphic.
Thanks Again, Bob

"Roy G" wrote in message
"BOB" wrote in message
How will photoshop look on a 20 inch monitor at
1600 x1200? Thanks

I am looking to get a Samsung SyncMaster Monitor (204B)
Hi.

The best workaround to get high res for the image area, and to still be able to read the text on Palettes etc, is to get 2 Monitors. A big High Res for the Image and a small Low Res for the Tools etc.
Roy G
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James McNangle
Apr 22, 2006
"BOB" wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. I have a dual monitor set up now, but I want better monitors. I have an 8 year old 15" Proview crt and a 6 year old 17" ViewSonic A70 crt. I never had a problem with either. I want to keep the A70 and get something bigger for web designing and graphic.

High res is not really a good thing for Web designing. It would be lovely if everybody had a 1280 by 1024 monitor, and viewed your masterpiece at full-screen, but they don’t. Unfortunately it is still strongly advisable to design all your web pages so that they can be viewed in an 800 by 600 window.

I have an HP L1925 LCD main monitor (which to me seems to have excellent colour resolution), and a Viewmaster 1024 by 768 secondary monitor, which I use largely for viewing completed web pages. It is a very ordinary monitor, but any higher resolution would be counterproductive for this purpose.

The icons are rather small on the high res monitor, and my mouse working area is also rather small, so selecting the right icon (or word when editing) is rather fiddly. Any higher resolution would be nearly impractical for me.

And with LCD monitors I strongly advise working at the native resolution of the monitor.

James McNangle
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Fast Eddie
Apr 22, 2006
James McNangle wrote:

"BOB" wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. I have a dual monitor set up now, but I want better monitors. I have an 8 year old 15" Proview crt and a 6 year old 17" ViewSonic A70 crt. I never had a problem with either. I want to keep the A70 and get something bigger for web designing and graphic.

High res is not really a good thing for Web designing. It would be lovely if everybody had a 1280 by 1024 monitor, and viewed your masterpiece at full-screen, but they don’t. Unfortunately it is still strongly advisable to design all your web pages so that they can be viewed in an 800 by 600 window.
I have an HP L1925 LCD main monitor (which to me seems to have excellent colour resolution), and a Viewmaster 1024 by 768 secondary monitor, which I use largely for viewing completed web pages. It is a very ordinary monitor, but any higher resolution would be counterproductive for this purpose.

The icons are rather small on the high res monitor, and my mouse working area is also rather small, so selecting the right icon (or word when editing) is rather fiddly. Any higher resolution would be nearly impractical for me.
And with LCD monitors I strongly advise working at the native resolution of the monitor.

James McNangle

I got a 17" 1024×768 LCD panel for my laptop to reduce eye strain. bright with a very nice 500:1 contrast ratio.
Very happy with it.

It certainly won’t go any higher…
Not like the old tube would.

But on convinence alone, it’s worth a lot more than I paid for i t.

Richard

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