I download a lot of pics here. There are so many that I like. I am a wallpaper changing fool, as I love art in many forms. I am probably not the only to do this, but I have to run many, but not all, through Picasa to alter the contrast and brightness, to bring out the true beauty of some. There are many photo editing tools, but Picasa is easy and simple to use and you can, through Picasa, easily and immediately set it as a desktop background. Just a though for those who may not have thought of it. Thanks, xtalg.

of course, there is also the possibilty that your screen settings are way off which is why you need to bump up the contrast all the time....just a thought mind you....

:-)

....or perhaps the images have horrible levels. o.O

just curious.. do you suppose you could give a few images as examples?

Smashing idea! (if u even think about saying my "Prassino" image is too dark...Every1 has said it is too dark.)

I used to get tied up with this a whole lot. Having seen my images on many different monitors there's no way of winning. I've eventually settled on ensuring that what I see on my monitor is what comes out of my printer and nothing else matters...............unless, of course, you don't print you images:)

try this ... take a look at the pics in your OWN gallery .. and tell us how you think they hold up to your sniff test

Confucius say: ... man who consider all outcomes before taking a step, forever spend life balanced on one foot

Rrrright. Ok! Moving on:

Basically, if you go to Here.

If you can see the stars (um, noise/dots), the outline of the mountains, AND the text, then your monitor is fine. If you have hard time seeing them/cant see them at all, well, it's your monitor.

...or it could be the fact that the images on caedes need adjustments.

I see dead people ... what's that say about my monitor? :oPP

Not sure if Picasa is listed on the Free and Open-Source Softwares
page, you could add to that ever growing and helpful list if you wish.

it probably means you need to stop surfing deadpeople.com

Hey guys, thanks for the comments, some of which were funny, esp the deadpeople comments. I really did not expect any comments, esp so soon. My monitor is really ok. I scan in family pics sometimes, they all look like the orginal, but I sure can improve them with Picasa. I can't give you any examples from my own gallery, as I do not have one and probably could not figure out how to upload anyway. I am just an image ho, I do paint water media stuff on a daily basis, and I am keen on brightness, contrast and such stuff. Photography is an art of its own. If your lighting and setting are off, your pic will be off as well. Many, if not most of the pics here, are in perfect balance, with no need to manipulate. I went "here" and took a look at "Prassino", sure enough it is dark as hades. Could be my monitor. I bought used and it is old, but I can still manipulate the contrast and brightnes of images with it. I just adjust so that the theme looks good and every thing else fall into place. It is just easier running images through Picasa. Perhaps some of you could run your photographs thru Picasa and see for your self. Anyway it doesn't matter. I just get the pics to look what looks good to me. I am not promoting Picasa, but there is a whole lot of manipulation tools that can manipulate images. I have used just about every free photo tool out there including the Gimp and a free trial download of Photoshop. Some may like other ones better. It is just a personal choice with me. I am not sure if it is "free and open-source in the Linux sense, but it a free download, free to use as long as you like and is made by Google. The easiest way to find it is to type "picasa" into your favorite search engine. If you don't like it, it is easy to uninstall. There is also a Linux version on Google Labs. Thanks again, xtalg (Gordon)

gordon, what i was suggesting in my earlier comments is that perhaps you can point to a few works from this site, so others can see (or not) what you're seeing, and we can all be on the same page here...

congressional page? ... give 'em a break

Hi, sorry to gate crash the current discussion. Can someone please help me. I have a photo that looks really nice until you get to the top right hand corner where it is horribly over exposed and completely runing the rest of the image. i have paintshop pro. Is there anyway i can fix this problem with this program!? please help?

why don't you post it ... we won't hold it against you

and link to it back here

Keifer is right. A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say!

Well i didnt really wanna post a rubbish image. Everyone on this site is so talented i really dont like posting images that dont cut it! Plus i dont know how to link :(

oh, i guess that would be noah's cue...

to link ... ((copy this to a text file))

place this -----> .... <@ href=" ......... in front of your address

and this -----> .... ">HERE</@> ....... at the back end of your address


you will have -------> ..... <@ href="http://www.caedes.net">HERE</@>


1) .. replace the @ with a lowercase a

2) .. make sure you did not leave off the little "quote" symbols (surrounding the address)

3) .. change the word HERE to be what ever you want the world to see

4) .. needless to say, your address will be different .. :o)


there is a brief descriptor of this at the bottom of the FAQ's

you can "practice" by editing any of your comments

No! Bad keith...! (see what happens when you dont read all the threads/posts/etc)... =P

This monitor calibration test might help... HERE