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<p>[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1466557, member: 36248"]I too have multiple Monitors side-by-side (or side-by-each if you are Canadian). The same coin image look very different on each. Not just color, but contrast and brightness can be very different depending on the monitor type, connection type (VGA,DVI,HDMI, Display Port, etc) and local settings for each monitor. Even if I were to calibrate all my monitors at home and at work, it's still completely useless to do so, since 99.9% of the general public have crap monitors and crap calibrations. So, most everyone here at Cointalk is going to "see" my coin photos differently from me, and differently from one another, even if the original image I create is technically perfect. For that reason, there is very little value in wasting time getting your whitebalance, contrast, etc at 100% of ideal. 90% should probably be the goal, so that your coin photos are good-enough on the majority of monitors out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I have mild red-green color deficiency, and many others here have known and unknown color blindness, so even if everyone if the world has a perfect monitor, perfectly calibrated to a set color space (think <b>sRGB</b>), you CANNOT fix everyones eyes! Oh, the futility![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 1466557, member: 36248"]I too have multiple Monitors side-by-side (or side-by-each if you are Canadian). The same coin image look very different on each. Not just color, but contrast and brightness can be very different depending on the monitor type, connection type (VGA,DVI,HDMI, Display Port, etc) and local settings for each monitor. Even if I were to calibrate all my monitors at home and at work, it's still completely useless to do so, since 99.9% of the general public have crap monitors and crap calibrations. So, most everyone here at Cointalk is going to "see" my coin photos differently from me, and differently from one another, even if the original image I create is technically perfect. For that reason, there is very little value in wasting time getting your whitebalance, contrast, etc at 100% of ideal. 90% should probably be the goal, so that your coin photos are good-enough on the majority of monitors out there. Also, I have mild red-green color deficiency, and many others here have known and unknown color blindness, so even if everyone if the world has a perfect monitor, perfectly calibrated to a set color space (think [B]sRGB[/B]), you CANNOT fix everyones eyes! Oh, the futility![/QUOTE]
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