Please make your screen wide enough to see both arrows on this line:
The point of this page is to tell you whether your internet provider, your software, and hardware are conspiring to take away from perfect viewing.
The image below should appear as a rainbow starting and ending with red. There should be a smooth transition from color to color with no banding and no little dots, or noise. The background for this page is gray.
The following images are not a smooth transitions. If you have only limited
colors the above rainbow would look something like these:
If that's the case, you probably need more video RAM, or a different video
board.
That's color, now let's deal with tone, brightness and contrast.
Below are four boxes. One should be absolute black. Nothing on your monitor should be darker than the black box. If your monitor has a black border, it should be as black as the black box below. And nothing should be lighter than the white box.
<-you
could adjust contrast and brightness to achieve this.
"Crossover" is when your monitor's Red, Green and Blue guns don't have linear curves. The chart below has boxes that go from black, to gray, to white. No colors should be visible: no pink, yellow or green cast at all!
If the boxes pick up a color cast, one of your monitor's guns is out of adjustment. Ideally you should see every distinct box. If you have an LCD screen, move your head far to the right and left, up and down to see if the boxes change color or density.
Gamma (or contrast) is next.
This next test doesn't work on most flat LCD monitors.
(With the proliferation of LCD monitors, we will try to develop a test for them.)
Step back from your monitor.
One of these numbered boxes is about the same shade as the surrounding.
That's your "screen gamma." Many photographer's web pages are designed for 1.8 Gamma. Windows OS computers and TV monitors are calibrated for 2.2 Gamma.
<-you
could adjust contrast and brightness to achieve this.
