Viewing

Welcome to my Dorset photos Viewing page, which will enable you to determine your monitor's calibration for white and black points - and also the important gamma setting.

A lot of people have their monitor brightness setting turned up far too high for accurate viewing of digital photographs, so if you find yourself in two minds as to whether I have messed up every single photograph, please read below to check your monitor calibration.



White and Black Points

First of all we will check the white and black settings on your monitor. Below is the DT6.biz monitor calibration guide.

Please read the instructions before viewing the toned panels. The differences you will be looking for on the black and white panels are only just perceptible, so bear this in mind when inspecting the panels. You will need to allow your eyes to adjust if swapping back and forth between the black and white panels whilst viewing.

If you can see everything you should be able to, then you can see the same as I can and my Dorset photos should display correctly on your monitor!

Gamma


My monitor's gamma setting is calibrated to the standard value of 2.2, which is recommended for Windows, the internet sRGB colour space and the popular Adobe RGB (1998) colour space. This is very important setting for digital photography.

To check if yours is the same, stand back about 8 feet from your monitor and look at the panel below. From that distance the striped outer area of the image should blend in and appear exactly the same tone as the centre section. If there is a tonal discrepancy between the two parts of the image then your gamma setting is incorrect and should be calibrated.

Further Information

If you find that your monitor's gamma setting is incorrect you can adjust it using the free application available from QuickGamma. For a quick explanation of why this is an important factor, follow the link and read the paragraph on QuickGamma's home page.

Further essential information for setting up your monitor correctly can be found on Norman Koren's excellent page 'Monitor Calibration and Gamma', which can be found here. The Gamma and Black Level chart half-way down the page is particularly relevant in that the QuickGamma application is based on it.