Many if not most of us now use the Flat Screen LCD monitor. Of those that do, most probably are the lower cost technology TN type screens that also do not have a height adjustment.
When setting these monitors up, we need to pay attention to a couple of things.
1. Make sure that the screen is not too bright. Typically monitors are set up from the factory to look outstanding in a well lit store. At home, they are too bright and when you edit pictures, the print will appear significantly darker than the printed picture. Most times, the brightness needs to be turned back down to 50% or even less.
2. And even trickier situation is that, the TN type lower cost panels shifts in color and brightness with the angle that the screen is viewed from. TN type LCD screens need to be viewed directly from the front. Your eyes should look directly at the middle of the screen. You can test the effect of this by simply rising or lowering your eye level. What makes this more of an issue is that the lower cost screens do not have a height adjustment. They typically supply an angle adjustment only. While in theory this might help it makes the sweet spot even smaller than if the screen is viewed directly from eye level. To make the effect of shifts in color and brightness less, you should physically raise or elevate the base of the monitor to minimize the effect of this shift.
When setting these monitors up, we need to pay attention to a couple of things.
1. Make sure that the screen is not too bright. Typically monitors are set up from the factory to look outstanding in a well lit store. At home, they are too bright and when you edit pictures, the print will appear significantly darker than the printed picture. Most times, the brightness needs to be turned back down to 50% or even less.
2. And even trickier situation is that, the TN type lower cost panels shifts in color and brightness with the angle that the screen is viewed from. TN type LCD screens need to be viewed directly from the front. Your eyes should look directly at the middle of the screen. You can test the effect of this by simply rising or lowering your eye level. What makes this more of an issue is that the lower cost screens do not have a height adjustment. They typically supply an angle adjustment only. While in theory this might help it makes the sweet spot even smaller than if the screen is viewed directly from eye level. To make the effect of shifts in color and brightness less, you should physically raise or elevate the base of the monitor to minimize the effect of this shift.
