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From: mhuang@ninkasi.bu.edu (maohai huang)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:36:59 -0400
To: ruether@fcinet.com (Bob Neuman" )
Subject: Re: "Bob Neuman" website is running...
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In article <5k512v$6vq@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> you wrote:

: um, the truth may be revealed...! ;-). I have made every
: (desperate! ;-) attempt to make the photos "read" on a
: variety of monitors, but some will still be outside the
: range I balanced the image color/saturation/density/
: density-range/contrast for, alas. If the photos do not
: have a good overall look to them (with good blacks), you
: may want to adjust the contrast and brightness of your
: monitor... (the standard settings are often not ideal,
: anyway...;-)

there are some pages about monitor gamma such as
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rwb/www/gamma.html

i tried to make a fool-proof gamma calibrator in my page at
http://buast7.bu.edu:80/~mhuang/ant/ant.html
but i doubt how many reader really bother to adjust the monitor...

- mh