> blue2lip wrote:

>> I just purchased this HP Pavilion laptop computer and as I am a
>> professional photographer, it is important that I can see extreme
>> detail in the images I work on. I just worked on 14 images in
>> photoshop and sent them to my assistant to get out to the lab. When
>> she brought the images up on her computer, she was able to see where
>> I had darkened the black background to cover the pants and parts of
>> the white flesh showing on the customer I had photographed. Even
>> though I know exactly where the imperfections and corrections are,
>> when I bring these images up on this computer, I am not able to see
>> the detail she was seeing on her computer monitor. Is there any way
>> to adjust this monitor so that the details are exposed, and thus,
>> corrections can be made? If this is not possible, I need to find out
>> what laptop computer works for professional image manipulation
>> through photoshop or other image manipulation software.

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> For that gross a mismatch, I doubt it's the quality of your monitor, but
> it's possible. What resolution do you have the monitor set for? Minumum,
> it should be 1280 x yyy or higher. 800 x yyy or lower will help to mask out
> some of the details, which is not what you want.
>
> I don't know Photoshop any longer (I currently am using PaintShop Pro 9
> and/ore 10) but I hang out with a lot who do. I think there is a tool or
> section where you can "set up" your monitor. It usually consists of
> modifying colors and grays in panels until a center section exactly matches
> the parts on each side. Visually it looks sort of like you're doping out a
> moire pattern and exactly matching colors/patterns. It's easy to do. Not
> as accurate as say a Pantel panel, but I think plenty for what your problem
> is.
>
> The newsgroup cnews.corel.com has a corel.PaintShopProX group there and
> you'll find a lot of photoshoppers there too. There are some usenet PSP
> groups too, but ... they're full of the usual shenanigans so culling out
> real info can be more difficult. They can likely help you out with setting
> up for things like that.
> If you go there, share your operating system/version, cpu version/type,
> photoshop version, amount of RAM, Video Ram if applicable, and your video
> card model # at least; that will get you a much better targetted set of
> responses.
> To be brutally honest, your post as it is, is poor to terrible for
> getting much useful help; way too little detail. The first thing that came
> to my mind, for example, was whether you were using a clone tool, a copy
> tool, a mask, how many overlays; all that sort of thing when you apparently
> tried to replace certain pixels in a cleanup effort. Then, reading it
> over again, I decided that you're in a more basic area and probably need
> more basic assistance than that.
>
> Assuming you were able to do this same work on a previous machine with
> photoshop and had no problems (you included no info that way), then it
> certainly should be able to be done on your HP with TrueColor and 24 or 32
> bit video settings at 1280 or greater. In particular, for instance, if you
> are set for 16 colors, you'll never see the kind of things your'e talking
> about. BTW, I'm not saying things lke 800 x 600 because I don't know the
> shape of your screen; 4:3 or 16:9 or whatever, so I leave it at 800 x yyy.
>
> At this point I'd be careful of investing big bucks in a professional
> monitor: There are too many other areas that can give the problems you talk
> about, including your video card and/or Video RAM, etc etc etc.
> It wouldn't hurt to try another borrowed/whatever monitor, but I suspect
> that isn't your problem for what you've described.
>
> HTH
>
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