Reply #3: It's your individual mac's brightness setting [View All]

Might also be the brightness setting of the PC in question...

You posted a (very hot) picture in the Yowzah thread, but on my Mac, it looked way dark. I looked at the "histogram" of the file in photoshop, and it was, in fact too dark. I corrected it thusly:



The histogram should show that the brightest point of the picture is actually white, and the darkest is black.

on edit: I did a screen cap that shows how in the original (dark photo) the bell curve stops at about 2/3 of the way across the scale, indicating that the brightest pixels are not white, but actually fairly dark, and most of the pixels in the image are on the dark end of the scale. The bottom photo shows the adjusted image with the bell curve fairly balanced within the scale, a little heavy on the bright side because of the light background and white posters. This is a good picture to do this exercise with actually.



So, a simple way to adjust your computer would to look at the picture above, and adjust your brightness/contrast settings so that it looks "normal" on screen. Send this picture to the PC you were talking about and see how it looks there. it may look too dark, again, due to an improperly calibrated monitor. There are more sophisticated calibration methods, but for just casual use, this should work.

Also, on edit, most PC users never calibrate or adjust their monitors, and use them at the settings right out of the carton, which are usually on the dark side.

:) Yowzah yet again...

G