How many people calibrate their monitors? In the caedes.net gallery and the comments I notice many people think some of my (and others') photos are too bright or have low contrast or bad colour saturation while I find a lot of other photos too dark. Many of them belong to said people. Could it be that I calibrated my monitor wrong (I followed instructions on a site I can't find right now) or do most people simply not calibrate their monitors at all?

Btw, in my experience most LCDs are way too bright and need negative gamma correction, but I may be wrong...

Oops, sorry, I see a similar question was recently posted in another section.

But my question still stands. How many people here (and in general) actually calibrate their monitors?

I can't say that I have ..

I once had a graphics card go bad on me and smear black text to the left and right .. I had to turn up my brightness to compensate until I could get a new card .. and in doing so, I think I developed a taste for a brighter screen .. it used to be darker and more contrasty

it's always a gamble posting an image that is designed to be "just so" .. because others will, no doubt, see it differently

I do calibrate mine. Then I fine tune the sharpness, vibrance etc.

~raises hand~

I do!! Once a day, whether I'm in the mood or not...uhh, OH...calibrate!! 8~O

Yes...Pantone Huey here!!

I do, too, and I notice the same thing, Rob.

i always seem to sound like a dufus (doofus?) how do you calibrate a monitor? i have a pc which uses a trinitron monitor and an apple laptop with which i use an apple cinema display.