RE: FLASH: Major monitor gamma difference between WIN/MAC?!?

[Eric Dunham]

Well, I know it's a bit expensive, but if you use Adobe Photoshop's Gamma

Control Panel Applet, you can change the settings of your PC from default

Windows to default Mac.


HTH,

Eric Dunham


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Subject: Re: FLASH: Major monitor gamma difference between WIN/MAC?!?



Bob Shuster wrote:

> >

> ...For example, I have a movie with a black background over which I am

> animating a white object.  I'm using the alpha settings of the white

> object to make it semi-transparent.  On the Mac, 10% alpha is

> definitely subtle, but visible.  The same thing in Windows is

> invisible until around 40-45% alpha!

>

> *Is* it just me, or has anyone else noticed this?  How does one deal

> with it, short of detecting which platform the viewer is on and

> tailoring content to it?    - Bob Shuster


No, it's not just you.  Half of the "cool" black background sites I look

at (on my PC) seem like they were designed by someone who didn't care if

his/her audience was actually able to see anything.  Subtlety is

certainly better than garishness, but if you want to design for all

audiences, I think you have to use more contrast than many

black-background-designers do. Alternately, you can just design for a

specific audience and decide you don't care what the rest think.


Anyway, thanks for bringing up a good point. Is there a tool--similar to

the one someone mentioned previously for the Mac--that would allow PC

users to see the gamma settings that Mac users see?


Regards,

Helen

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