Can you work on a brighter monitor setting -

[The View]

I know it is wrong to work with the maximum brightness setting on a monitor.

It would make your images too dark.

But I'd find it more agreeable if I could than on a dimmed monitor.

COULD ONE DO THIS?

1. Edit an image monitor set to bright.

2. Adjust for this making the image too dark by using the brightness slider.

WELL...

I have the impression it is not quite the same image.

Have you ever experimented with this?

Thanks!

[The View]

I'd just like to know: is there any way to avoid working on a muted display. After all, it's hard to see the colors well if the screen is turned to minimum brightness.

[Nill Toulme]

I'd just like to know: is there any way to avoid working on a muted display. After all, it's hard to see the colors well if the screen is turned to minimum brightness.
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Many office-type LCD displays can't be dialed down to a proper brightness level for critical photo processing work and still display properly.  If that's the case you just have to do the best you can, and making an after-processing-but-before-printing brightness adjustment may be it.

Nill
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[rdonson]

I'd just like to know: is there any way to avoid working on a muted display. After all, it's hard to see the colors well if the screen is turned to minimum brightness.
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A couple of thoughts:

Are you calibrating and profiling the monitor?  
- If not then it doesn't really matter.

What is the intended use of your images?
- web postings? may not matter
- printing on your own printer?  It will definitely make a difference.
- sending your images off to a lab?  They'll probably auto-correct anyway.

[Wayne Fox]

How bright is the ambient light?  My monitor is typically at full brightness until I do image work, then I turn it down to where I set it when I profiled  it.

At first it looks pretty bad, so I normally surf the web, do some emails, grab a snack ... anything  until my eyes adjust.  As long as the room I'm in is pretty dark, it's amazing how my eye adapts and things look just fine.

[The View]

A couple of thoughts:

Are you calibrating and profiling the monitor? 
- If not then it doesn't really matter.

What is the intended use of your images?
- web postings? may not matter
- printing on your own printer?  It will definitely make a difference.
- sending your images off to a lab?  They'll probably auto-correct anyway.
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Thank you! You really targeted my points of concern.

I calibrate using an Eye One Display 2.

My photos are presented in three ways:

1. To the client coming in - I need brightness here.

2. On the web. I found out, that even when adjusted on a too bright monitor, most people's monitors are even brighter. As you said, doesn't matter.

3. I print using professional production houses. I'm sure they do their own correction (too warm, for example). I don' t know if it helps to give them an absolutely correct file.

So, does this mean I have to work on different monitor settings? One for client representation/watching images on the screen, and the web...

... and a second, dimmed down to 120cd/m2 for print preparation?

Other than many people, I like a bright screen.

(If this is plainly wrong, I  may have to change my personal preferences).

[The View]

How bright is the ambient light? 
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That's another point. I do a lot of editing at night, but at least 25% during the day.

Looks like I  need two profiles?

[walter.sk]

That's another point. I do a lot of editing at night, but at least 25% during the day.

Looks like I  need two profiles?
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I have light-blocking shades on my windows, and they are close to 100% effective.  That way, the light is pretty constant whether I edit during the day or night.  I could use wide gaffer's tape to seal the edges of the shades to the edges of the window frame but haven't found it necessary.

I use one profile on an old Diamond Pro 2060u CRT monitor, which I reprofile every 2 weeks.

[The View]

I came to the result that too bright a monitor is very bad, as it gives you the illusion of higher contrast - and then you get a flat image.