Screen Brightness Test

TerraS · 12 Jan 2007 at 03:33

I am trying to work out if my images are showing up correctly on peoples monitors/LCD screens.

Can you let me know if this photo I took of Brad Pitt is showing his jacket as a grey colour, or is it very dark black on your monitor.

Please let me know if your monitor is CRT, LCD or a laptop LCD. Thanks!

skiba · 12 Jan 2007 at 03:50

looks like a black suit on my macbook...

Moredhel · 12 Jan 2007 at 04:05

Black on both of my monitors.

Raymond Lin · 12 Jan 2007 at 04:24

Black here too.

TerraS · 12 Jan 2007 at 05:45

So it is hard to distinguish from the background?

Tonks · 12 Jan 2007 at 05:55

On my Dell laptop the background is black but the suit, tie and shirt are all dark grey, charcoal greyish. Very easy to distinguish between the background and the clothes. On second looks the clothes all appear to be black but a lighter black than the background, a light black or a dark grey?

Is it supposed to be like that?

tigerstyle · 12 Jan 2007 at 05:56

LCD and the suit is definitely black

but it's distinguishable in all areas, only the lower outside parts of his arms where the suit is folding does it blend in, infact scrap that, all of the outer edges of his arms are a bit 'is it background or is it suit?' his shoulder tops are ok

Wile E. Coyote · 12 Jan 2007 at 07:12

thepedster said:
LCD and the suit is definitely black

but it's distinguishable in all areas, only the lower outside parts of his arms where the suit is folding does it blend in, infact scrap that, all of the outer edges of his arms are a bit 'is it background or is it suit?' his shoulder tops are ok

Same on my laptop lcd

Shoei · 12 Jan 2007 at 08:08

black on my NEC 1760NX LCD panel.

Flibster · 12 Jan 2007 at 08:22

Monitor 1: Sony 24" GDMW900 *which was calibrated many months ago...*

Can't see the suit, shirt is just visible.

Monitor 2: Sony 24" GDMW900 *which was never calibrated*
Almost black suit - can see it nicely though.

Monitor 3: IBM 21"
See monitor 2.

I think I need to recalibrate monitor1

denz1968 · 12 Jan 2007 at 08:31

Black on my Acer LCD. However some areas of the edges I.E shoulders are easy seen, but lower in the arms it is difficult to distinguish the edge.

Wile E. Coyote · 12 Jan 2007 at 08:37

Wile E. Coyote said:
Same on my laptop lcd

In work now looks the same on hp tft

robmiller · 12 Jan 2007 at 08:56

Very dark grey here—that is, you can tell it's a black suit, but it's easily distinguishable from the background at every point.

17" SyncMaster TFT here.

SDK^ · 12 Jan 2007 at 09:12

Mitsubishi 930SB Pro CRT - Calibrated

Black suit, back shirt and tie
The background is a much darker black and the clothing is visible but it's still black.

mrgubby · 12 Jan 2007 at 09:21

Background is black & suit/tie/shirt are what I would call charcoal grey. I can see all of his lower arms .

Samsung 215TW TFT

Colin_da_Killer · 12 Jan 2007 at 10:42

background pitch black, suit charcoal grey/black. (CRT)

JBuk · 12 Jan 2007 at 10:59

looks like a black suit and easily viewable against the black background

DR_D · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:09

NEC 1970GX LCD connected via DVI cable running in native mode

The suit looks charcoal to me, stands out fromt he black background.

On second look it could be black with a bit of a shine

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 12 Jan 2007 at 12:18

He does not blend into the background at all. There are very distint differences between blacks of his tie, shirt, suit and background. Facial exposure is nice too

Edit: CRT Display.

A.N.Other · 12 Jan 2007 at 13:07

I can quite clearly see the suit, shirt and tie. The suit's a dark charcoal-grey for me against the jet background.

I've got a Xerox lcd.