Does your monitor suck? Also: Photoshop, GIMP both suck.

[scythe]

http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

"The colors in this image should all look the same when viewed from a distance (on a system which assumes gamma = 2.2)":

Here's one for Macs (which assume gamma = 1.8):

If you are using a low cost TFT display, the third column of two squares may show blueish, with a very different luminosity from the other squares and that luminosity also changes tremendously when you move your head up and down. These are gamma and color problems partially own to LCD technology and partially engineered on purpose to increase the brightness at the behalf of display quality. These gamma problems can partially be coped with using calibration hardware and/or software. I used xcalib to get an approximately correct display.

The whole article is pretty damn cool, too: apparently most common software gets image scaling completely wrong. If you have a cheap LCD, this picture is fun:

[Pheidippides]

If you have a cheap LCD, this picture is fun:

Yep, my laptop is enjoying that one greatly. Cool.

[squibbles]

If I were to printscreen what I see, and upload it, would that printscreen then appear identical for everyone, regardless of their screen quality (assuming I am using the worst possible screen, and that nobody could view a /worse/ version), or would it do the same magic changing image stuff?

[Rhekatou]

Mine's white with a "Windows Parental Controls has blocked this webpage" sticker on it.
Gah, my screen must be horrible.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

If I were to printscreen what I see, and upload it, would that printscreen then appear identical for everyone, regardless of their screen quality (assuming I am using the worst possible screen, and that nobody could view a /worse/ version), or would it do the same magic changing image stuff?

I dunno, would you be able to show us a spider sitting on your monitor by pressing PrintScreen and pasting?

[T3chno]

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Then yes.

AlsowheredidyoubuyyourmonitorIneedone.

[Vyacheslav]

Search newegg for them, Suki. Good prices.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Search newegg for them, Suki. Good prices.

I know about NewEgg. What I don't know is what they call the ones that can scan the screen from the user's perspective, like in Techno's screenshot.

[Vyacheslav]

Silly me, didn't realize that was a joke on Techno.

[Neil_Bryan]

Wow. I didn't know everything about pictures, image editing software, and computer screens were all complicated.

Anyway, I have a CRT screen that has lost the display of the colors red, green and pink. Red is displayed as black, green as yellow, and pink as blue. Plus, the shades of blue had been a bit lighter for some reason.