When I am trying to get a scan of my artwork just right, I notice that the richness of the color, the contrast/brightness, etc. depends on what angle I have my laptop screen at. I’ve been working with photos in photoshop for YEARS and have not pondered this question much. I HAVE thought about it, but there just seemed to be a natural place for the screen to be. But for some reason w/ the drawings it’s bothering me a lot more. I suppose this is also an issue with regular flat-panel monitors. And also crt monitors that are set to real bright or real dark. Heh, back around 2000, while looking at my online photos from a computer that was not at home, I noticed that all my photos online were over-brightened. Turns out I forgot that my CRT monitor at home was turned way down, the brightness, so I had been overbrightening my photos to compensate for that and not realizing it.
So anyway, I don’t know why, but now that I’m dealing w/ scanned artwork, it seems that the image changes more when you move the angle of the screen just a little, whereas it’s not that drastic w/ photos.
Here’s an experiment I did- I took photos of the screen as I changed the angle of the screen and nothing else:
(that’s my trying my hand at coloring a sketch in photoshop w/ my new Wacom tablet, LOL, terrible)
Small: http://myotherstuff.net/pookieart/comparisonsm.jpg
Large: http://myotherstuff.net/pookieart/comparison.jpg
I know you can get monitor calibration spiders and such, but I am have spent too much money on stuff lately and am just not going to go there right now.
Idunno. It just seems that with scanned artwork, there is more of a visible change with a small angle change in the screen. One of my drawings will need just a little tweak of brightness and I don’t know whether to adjust it in photoshop or move my screen.
I know, everyone sees different things because of monitor types, monitor settings, monitor calibration, system (macs see color differently than PCs!) **, and more. I need to just go to bed, LOL.
** = "found the link!"
