[DireZen]

Hi everyone. I'm brand new to the forums. I've been coming here everyday the past few months to read all the great threads here- the speedpainting one in particular is phenomenal! I'm learning so much from everyone here!

anyways I'm currently trying my hand at digital paintings but I'm running into a big problem and can't solve it. i tend to work with a very dark palette. i have two computers, one with a very bright high contrast LCD and a really old one with a CRT. My problem is that I've calibrated both monitors, and those gamma-test grayscale images look fine on both monitors. however, when i view my paintings on the LCD, they look perfect, and on the CRT, they are unbelievably dark. Somehow, though, other people's paintings (like in speedpainting thread) look fine on BOTH.

My paintings are very dark, but this is something I do intentionally. I've tried to make the adjustments on my LCD that would make the image look normal on the CRT but when I do so, it then looks fine on the CRT and completely washed out on the LCD. (all gray and ugly instead of just brightened.)

I've tried Curves, Levels, Brightness, saturation, various color profiles, etc.. I'm seriously stuck. No matter what I do, it looks like crap on either the CRT or the LCD.

This is a very small portion of my painting, which is particularly problematic. On my LCD, this raven has grey highlights on his feathers and his beak stands out from the black background. On my CRT, however, you can't see them at all. It's completely black except for his blue eyes.



I've been struggling with this problem for 2 days and cant get my painting to look right. Maybe i"m just making some stupid mistake in my choice of values, but I really need help

Can anyone give me some advice?? or tell me whether they can see the gray highlights on their monitor?

thank you
-matt[/img]

[crigg]

Im pretty sure its your CRT, try using the monitor calibration program. I am using a LCD monitor and I can see everything fine too. Looks alright to me. I cant really give you a CRT comparison though.

[DireZen]

okay well at least i know other LCDs look ok. thanks for the feedback crigg

[Affected]

just to be sure, I'll mention this: don't import you monitor profile into photoshop. Load that in your os' display properties.

But if it's a really old crt, then it's best before date may just have been a long time ago. CRTs tend to stuff up in the dark end as they age.

[Immortal_Souls]

There could be another reason, it's more difficult than the previous ones mentioned but it could be your eyes need checking!

To put it simply "You're going 'BLIND' DireZen!!!"

Just messin!
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