Re: Monitor settings

blue2lip wrote:
I just purchased this HP Pavilion laptop computer and as I am a
professional photographer, it is important that I can see extreme
detail in the images I work on. I just worked on 14 images in
photoshop and sent them to my assistant to get out to the lab. When
she brought the images up on her computer, she was able to see where
I had darkened the black background to cover the pants and parts of
the white flesh showing on the customer I had photographed. Even
though I know exactly where the imperfections and corrections are,
when I bring these images up on this computer, I am not able to see
the detail she was seeing on her computer monitor. Is there any way
to adjust this monitor so that the details are exposed, and thus,
corrections can be made? If this is not possible, I need to find out
what laptop computer works for professional image manipulation
through photoshop or other image manipulation software.

For that gross a mismatch, I doubt it's the quality of your monitor, but
it's possible. What resolution do you have the monitor set for? Minumum,
it should be 1280 x yyy or higher. 800 x yyy or lower will help to mask out
some of the details, which is not what you want.

I don't know Photoshop any longer (I currently am using PaintShop Pro 9
and/ore 10) but I hang out with a lot who do. I think there is a tool or
section where you can "set up" your monitor. It usually consists of
modifying colors and grays in panels until a center section exactly matches
the parts on each side. Visually it looks sort of like you're doping out a
moire pattern and exactly matching colors/patterns. It's easy to do. Not
as accurate as say a Pantel panel, but I think plenty for what your problem
is.

The newsgroup cnews.corel.com has a corel.PaintShopProX group there and
you'll find a lot of photoshoppers there too. There are some usenet PSP
groups too, but ... they're full of the usual shenanigans so culling out
real info can be more difficult. They can likely help you out with setting
up for things like that.
If you go there, share your operating system/version, cpu version/type,
photoshop version, amount of RAM, Video Ram if applicable, and your video
card model # at least; that will get you a much better targetted set of
responses.
To be brutally honest, your post as it is, is poor to terrible for
getting much useful help; way too little detail. The first thing that came
to my mind, for example, was whether you were using a clone tool, a copy
tool, a mask, how many overlays; all that sort of thing when you apparently
tried to replace certain pixels in a cleanup effort. Then, reading it
over again, I decided that you're in a more basic area and probably need
more basic assistance than that.

Assuming you were able to do this same work on a previous machine with
photoshop and had no problems (you included no info that way), then it
certainly should be able to be done on your HP with TrueColor and 24 or 32
bit video settings at 1280 or greater. In particular, for instance, if you
are set for 16 colors, you'll never see the kind of things your'e talking
about. BTW, I'm not saying things lke 800 x 600 because I don't know the
shape of your screen; 4:3 or 16:9 or whatever, so I leave it at 800 x yyy.

At this point I'd be careful of investing big bucks in a professional
monitor: There are too many other areas that can give the problems you talk
about, including your video card and/or Video RAM, etc etc etc.
It wouldn't hurt to try another borrowed/whatever monitor, but I suspect
that isn't your problem for what you've described.

HTH

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