Screen Resolutions, etc.

[AcadieLibre]

What screen resolutions do you use, what monitors do you use and are they calibrated.

My Macbook Pro has a different look and colour to my photos then my apple cinema display. They are both Calibrated for my printer. I run my resolutions at 1600 x 1050. My Macbook Pro is superior colour wise, my photos that I look at on the cinema display look like dark in areas people point out, on my Macbook Display image is not as dark and it is what I print from.

My big pet peeve about showing photographs online is they never look the same from one monitor to the next.

My Second Set up is a Comapq Presario Laptop with a second monitor which is an LG 17 wide screen , now when I view images on that setup because my resolution is 1024x800 the images are larger, they look different on the two monitors then on my Mac set up. All my monitors are calibrated but because different companies do their displays different it makes a huge deal when viewing photos on line. So now I look at each photo on each display so when someone makes a comment about darkness I can look at the photo on the various monitors to see what they see.

Not sure what I would do with a single monitor set up, would send me loopy, not seeing what others see and why they see it.

So what set up do the rest of you have?

[jjeling]

Im using a standard 19" LCD monitor. I do not have a monitor calibration system. There are several ways to visually adjust your monitor but it will never be spot on. The images that I have printed off are printed at a professional shop. Most of the time they adjust the image brightness and I have never complained. I am friends with most of them and know the owner quite well. As far as monitor resolution, I have recently adjusted it to 1600x1200. It used to be 1280x960 or something like that. The higher resolution is much when using the net, but I find it useful when editing images. The windows in photoshop are much smaller in proportion to the picture now. I no longer have to scroll around the image to see areas I need to see. It is also just a standard PC monitor connection. It is digitally capable, but my PC is not. Oh well. It still works, my eyes take the pictures anyways.

[Mad Aussie]

I have twin 17" LCD's calibrated only visually with online websites and then the monitor image of various photos compared to actual, professionally printed versions of the same photo. I figure if it looks the same on the monitor as it does after being printed by a professional printing lab then it can't be too bad. I run 1280x1024.

For backup I can use my wife's Laptop and 19" LCD setup, our server with it's twin 17" monitors or evenmy daughters single 17" monitor. I don't bother though ... happy with the look on my monitors being identical (to my eye at least) to professional prints.

[djKianoosh]

1650x1080 - 21" screen. that's a typical iMac resolution but that's on a pc for me.