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7 Is my coloring too vibrant?
15 years ago
I've noticed something with my 2 recent colored submissions:
[ thinking pose - by Konda http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4779874/ ] (NOV 25 EDIT: I lowered the contrast on this submission on account of this journal)
and [ it gets worse (color) - by Konda http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4837602/ ]
I created them on my XP tablet but when I use our other PC and view my submissions, the colors are much stronger and almost neon-like. So I'm wondering whether this monitor is too strong or if it's my XP tablet screen is not as vibrant. (which could make sense considering it's a laptop and an old one at that) If it's the latter, that would end up causing me to pick colors that are more vibrant than I realize.
So if you're reading this, I would like to ask you if the colors in those two submissions are too strong? Or does it look fine to you?
[ thinking pose - by Konda http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4779874/ ] (NOV 25 EDIT: I lowered the contrast on this submission on account of this journal)
and [ it gets worse (color) - by Konda http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4837602/ ]
I created them on my XP tablet but when I use our other PC and view my submissions, the colors are much stronger and almost neon-like. So I'm wondering whether this monitor is too strong or if it's my XP tablet screen is not as vibrant. (which could make sense considering it's a laptop and an old one at that) If it's the latter, that would end up causing me to pick colors that are more vibrant than I realize.
So if you're reading this, I would like to ask you if the colors in those two submissions are too strong? Or does it look fine to you?
But faces on your pictures http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4779874/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4837602/ - they are more mature, then on http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1270872/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/view/775156/ and other early art... i like more childish faces.
Anyway, as others have said, if the color isn't matching what you intended, then yes, it's probably the fault of your laptop. Cheap laptops often have screens with poor color quality. You might want to hook your monitor to your tablet laptop just so you can glance at it periodically to see what the colors will look like while still being able to color on the tablet. If your laptop has the ability to adjust color balance (sometimes hidden in the BIOS) you may consider trying that too.
Anyway but here's the thing. For all I know the PC monitor is at fault rather than the laptop monitor. I've always considered the PC monitor pretty lousy (it's an LCD/flatscreen monitor) compared to our CRT monitor. Not sure how to explain the LCD, it feels vaguely pale, yet bright colors manage to come out bright apparently.
Even before I got my laptop this year I would notice that pictures look different on our CRT vs. our LCD, the CRT being the brilliant one.
But to address your main problem, I have to say I'm hard pressed to tell you what to do. I wouldn't be surprised if every single one of your fans owned a different model of monitor, and some may not even be using the color balance presets - I know I used to own a CRT monitor that leaned just a touch too much to the red, so I had that turned down slightly. One thing you can try that might help decide you - use something like Google image search to browse pictures where you have a pretty good idea what the color balance ought to look like e.g. shots from a favorite TV show. Compare how they look on both the laptop and the PC and which looks less wrong to you, go with that.