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Website Calibration

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Posted by Dave Travis on June 9, 2006 at 4:28 PM
I have a Sony 19" Trinitron. I'm getting ready to scan and load my trannies to my site. Is their such a thing as a "standard" brightness/contrast that works for most web users? Do I have to calibrate for the web?
Thanks.
Posted by Richard Voninski on June 9, 2006 at 4:33 PM
Calibrate your monitor and apply SRGB to your images.

RichieV
Posted by Scott Bacon on June 9, 2006 at 8:21 PM
What?! Dave Travis has a website! Ahhhh! Is the sky falling??? :razz: :wink: :biggrin:

Like RichieV said, the best you can do is properly calibrate your own monitor, so you know your pics will look right to others who have monitors that are calibrated, or at least close.
Posted by Dave Travis on June 10, 2006 at 11:03 AM
Scott, what the heck am I thinking??? :biggrin:
Should I try and use the .PNG instead of the .JPG?
Something about gamma, what the heck is gamma??? :confused:
Posted by Scott Bacon on June 10, 2006 at 4:52 PM
Dave, .PNG hasn't really caught on much for photo use. I'd stick with .JPG. This page explains gamma pretty well. I use a gamma of 1.8.
HTH :smile:
Posted by Scott Bacon on June 10, 2006 at 4:55 PM
This page is pretty good too...
Posted by Dave Travis on June 13, 2006 at 2:22 PM
OK, here's what I did.
I've got the monitor set at 1024x768 32bpp.
I used Viewsonic's Colorific calibration tool, and have the gamma set between 1.8 and 2.0, about 1.9, this roughly matches the brightness of my prints. I'm using the sRGB "profile" within Colorific for the monitor. The color, brightness, and contrast matches my prints pretty close, but not the original slides, but I'm not selling them anyway.
Thanks for the advice, and for a good laugh go to: www.davetravisphoto.com. :biggrin:
Posted by Brent Murphy on June 13, 2006 at 2:35 PM
Dave - Your site isn't working at all for me on Firefox. Works in IE, though.