Radial Gradient Issue
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- Claymantis
http://dougshimizu.com/grey_site…
The radial gradient used on this site shows up differently on other screens. On my screen it has a nice smooth transition into the black... on other screens it looks like a grey ball with blurry edges.What gives!
- detritus0
The 'other' screens, in which it is failing, would be smaller form laptops, perhaps?
- Claymantis0
The other screen is a 30" apple cinema.
I'm not sure about other screens, but I would think there would be variation on other screens.
- detritus0
Actually, scratch that - I thought I was asking something, relevant, But probably not.
There were a few models of small laptops taht came out with reduced colour gamut, including one of the macbooks/mac laptops, so I was wondering whether that might be the root of your problem.. though the symptoms would be different, I think, so ignore me.
- They also shipped a bunch of smaller iMacs and tons of their laptops with 6bit displays. Bitches!monospaced
- Aye, that's what I meant I think.detritus
- detritus0
My best guess would be that the birghtness/contrast is fucked on those machines, with too much of a lean toward the white top end.
- Claymantis0
Hmmm... Yea it could be the screen settings...
I am on an imac and I also have 20 inch apple cinema.
IT looks fine on both. But when I put it on the 20 inch cinema... its a just a grey circle with blurry edges...Does it look ok for you?
- Aside from calling it 'middlewear', yes :)detritus
- yea I know its gay.Claymantis
- johndiggity0
gamma issue
- monNom0
I can see where the circle ends on my screen. You probably need to adjust your monitor.
1. Go in photoshop
2. set your RGB colour space to monitor colour.
3. open a new document
4. Fill black
5. marquee a square inside and cmd+h to hide the ants
6. cmd+m to open your curves palette.
7. click the black handle and increase the output 1 by one until you can see the grey box. If you output number is higher than 3-5 you're not seeing a lot of shades of dark grey.You can increase brightness or reduce contrast to make those into visible. do the opposite for your highlights to ensure you're not seeing significant clipping of light colours.
- inkpink0
yeah if i switch to the default Mac 1.8 gamma i can see banding.
as i understand, we should all be using PC 2.2 gamma.
- inkpink0
oh right, forgot OSX 10.6 is now using 2.2 gamma as default.
that explain the differences between computers; 10.5 users and others on 10.6?
- quack0
unrelated: the width of that site is ridiculous
- inkpink0
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