New monitor advice

[DavyG]

Thanks for the further advice Jim, I appreciate your help.

I'll play around with Photoshop and the printer profile, hopefully this will help me learn a bit more.

Dave

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by Tormentil

I always thought CRT's were better for image processing than TFT's ?

That's also my understanding.

Jim

[WhiskyBottle]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

That's also my understanding.

Jim

Me too, but my CRT's are ex-works and have been around a bit. The flat screen is much crisper with more contrast. It's also got more screen area so that makes image processing much easier.

[Jim Ford]

Originally Posted by WhiskyBottle

Me too, but my CRT's are ex-works and have been around a bit. The flat screen is much crisper with more contrast. It's also got more screen area so that makes image processing much easier.

I've seen it stated that the default brightness of a TFT monitor is usually far too high. Do you calibrate your TFT monitor, 'WhiskyBottle'?

When my CRT display starts up, the screen looks nice and bright and contrasty, but when the calibration profile kicks in it looks much more subdued.

Jim

[JennyS]

I've been reading this thread with interest as I need a new monitor, mainly for photo editing.

But there is a question that I haven't been able to find an answer to: on a 22" widescreen monitor (Max Resolution 1680 x 1050) will square images display as square or will they appear slightly rectangular?

Explanation/clarification would be very appreciated, but not too technical please, as I'm a bit challenged on that score

[WhiskyBottle]

Jim

I don't have any calibration devices (yet...). But yes the monitor was way too bright out of the box. Easily toned down though.

I'm now after a matching TV based on the same monitor to replace the CRT

Jenny

The pictures display at the correct aspect ration, at the correct size, or a fraction of. They don't stretch to fill the screen as you see on wide screen TV's which always seem to be full of fat people

The benifit of this is there's room at the sides of the picture for the editing toolboxes.

The exception to this is if you the picture as a windows wallpaper with the fit to screen option.