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Color/Monitor Issues
17 years ago
Commissions:
yargo : Should hopefully finish up today
trakefur done, pending approval
mideonwerewolf WIP
Tibaltwolfy : Pending
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Okay this is driving me crazy. I dont know how anyone else is seeing my submissions but I've got to know why I'm having this problem.
I run on two desktops. One is connected to the cintiq, which is what i do all the art on (and is running XP), and one I use for games and internet (running Vista). Typically, I sketch, paint, and edit pictures entirely on the cintiq and then port it to my gateway to upload it. Typically this isn't a problem, but most of the time the colors on the two are off. Something I've painted on the cintiq will look how I want it (for instance, on Trake's commission I had the browns perfect. They were much more rich and natural looking) but when I port it over to the gateway it looks like someone has chucked a yellow, low-opacity layer over it. I've adjusted the colors on the monitor to try and match it up with the cintiq numerous times but I cant even come close to getting it right. I dont know which one is the correct coloration and which is screwed. If it's the cintiq that needs adjusting, then I'm painting with a veil and when I submit them they're going to look like garbage on anyone's computer other than my own. But if it's the gateway then I'm going to ignore it and quit letting it bother me.
The problem is that since I only have two extremes, I cant exactly check it, and I suppose it depends on the person looking at and their monitor settings.
Anyone have any advice?
yargo : Should hopefully finish up today
trakefur done, pending approval
mideonwerewolf WIP
Tibaltwolfy : Pending==============================================
Okay this is driving me crazy. I dont know how anyone else is seeing my submissions but I've got to know why I'm having this problem.
I run on two desktops. One is connected to the cintiq, which is what i do all the art on (and is running XP), and one I use for games and internet (running Vista). Typically, I sketch, paint, and edit pictures entirely on the cintiq and then port it to my gateway to upload it. Typically this isn't a problem, but most of the time the colors on the two are off. Something I've painted on the cintiq will look how I want it (for instance, on Trake's commission I had the browns perfect. They were much more rich and natural looking) but when I port it over to the gateway it looks like someone has chucked a yellow, low-opacity layer over it. I've adjusted the colors on the monitor to try and match it up with the cintiq numerous times but I cant even come close to getting it right. I dont know which one is the correct coloration and which is screwed. If it's the cintiq that needs adjusting, then I'm painting with a veil and when I submit them they're going to look like garbage on anyone's computer other than my own. But if it's the gateway then I'm going to ignore it and quit letting it bother me.
The problem is that since I only have two extremes, I cant exactly check it, and I suppose it depends on the person looking at and their monitor settings.
Anyone have any advice?
The computer I do the majority of my artwork on is connected to a very old-style monitor. One of my pictures' (In the Morning Light) light source is hardly visable on this one, but was fine on the computer I completed it on.
I can feel your pain though, I used to have two CRT setup before this LCD and syncing them was complete ass XD