To the polls!

[foxgrrl]

So, I'm doing some CSS tweeking on my LJ, and I'm wondering how to make it look best for everyone — or at least for most people viewing it. I'm not going to assume everyone uses the standard VESA modes — I certainly never do, because I'm a VESA Rebel! — But I also didn't want to put this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_display_standard in the poll.

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Edit: Ok, yeah when I created this poll I was thinking of 4:3 aspect ratios, even though I never even run in any of those myself (I'm at 1280x800 at this moment). The only thing that I really need to know is how wide your screen is, so that I know how many columns of pictures, at what size, will fit comfortably across your screen. I don't know if everyone is seeing 1, 2, 3, or even 4 columns of 264px wide images. (I write the html layout so that it'll automagicaly work everywhere, but when I'm trying to group things together, I don't know if I'm going to leave a single photo floating by itself.) Up until now I've been trying to keep things in groups that are even multiples of twelve, but that's a lot of work.

Also, Yes mean style=mine, No means the LJ Default.

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[Poll #878475]
Also, can everyone tell me if they can see the difference between X, Y, and Z on this grayscale chart, shamelessly stolen from http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/common/grayscale.gif

I'm posting all of my photos on the assumption that everyone can see the difference. Also, at my current gamma setting, the O box matches the gray [#777777] of the border. (And I can see the difference between A, B, and C too.)

In other news, I've been reading up on one of my favorite drugs, and supposedly it damages the judgment center(s) of the brain, turning the user into an inhuman monster, with no sense of morals or ethics. (And in general, a bad decision maker. Like, say, shamelessly linking to someone else's grayscale chart.) For those of you who know me in person, would you say that I'm an inhuman monster?
[Poll #878476]

Comments

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

Another reasont hat EVERYONE should calibrate their monitor once a month. The pucks are under $200 now; there's not a lot of ecxcuse if you have a good, fairly new computer for not making sure the dynamic range is correct and adjusted properly when trying to view the work of other people, or watch video, or... Yeah, you get the picture. I use a GretagMacBeth Eye One Display, the 1st gen. puck (which can be had used for as cheap as $100), and the grayscale charts are bang-on; the basics of the monitor profile are loaded into Windows at startup, so there might be slight color casts here and there, but the white, black, and gamma re all bang-on, and most of the color cast is gone (this is a particularly large issue for laptops, and presumably, for LCD monitors as well). OS X goes one better, and color-manages EVERYTHING internally, so you can profile your monitor and then EVERYTHING will display accurately in EVERY program, plus the OS.

The more I get to know you, the more wonderful I think you are. I tend to lump anti-drug messages into the "reefer madness" camp; while there are drugs that'll fuck up your life and make you sick and insane from addiction (coke, crack, meth), if you are not using drugs to escape your problems (or do it for that purpose once in a while as a mini-vacation, but not at an increasing rate over time), what's the problem? Then again, I *am* a libertarian in principles if not party...

[varaviksne.livejournal.com]

All versions of MacOS going back 20 years have managed the gamma, not just OS X.

On the monitor I'm using right now, I can just barely see the differences between ABC and also XYZ. If I move my head left, right, or down, ABC become more distinct and XYZ become indistinguishable. If I move my head up, then XYZ become more distinct and ABC become indistinguishable.

I never run my browser window full screen (I'm on a Mac afterall). On either machine I might use, I see two columns of your pictures.

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware of that, but then again, I didn't use a Mac much at all between around 1993 and a year or two ago; I only became "color-aware" with publishing and whatnot and being a pro digital photographer in perhaps the last 4-5 years.

Are you using an LCD monitor? This is one of the things I hate about many of them; get at ALL off-axis and the gammma changes terribly...

[varaviksne.livejournal.com]

Yup, I've an LCD. My only color CRT started dying years ago.