Previously on Fuyoh!:

I took a photo of this figure in almost the same pose over two years ago. I’ve improved a lot since then, I think.

Perhaps not.

I had a nagging suspicion my photos would look different when viewed on another display device so I copied over an entire year’s worth of Fuyoh! photos to my PSP’s memory stick earlier.

Sure enough, the photos looked different on the handheld but I wasn’t prepared for just how different the photos looked. Colours looked washed out and edits (especially my attempts at lightening dark areas) were far too obvious and embarassing. It was very dispiriting to discover the photos I had worked on for such a long time didn’t look the way I wanted them to look.

I doubted the problem was due to the PSP’s LCD screen, which is fantastic, so I assumed my 17-inch el cheapo CRT was the culprit. With that thought in mind, I experimented with the monitor’s brightness, contrast and its Vivid feature to see if it helped.

The good news was photos looked roughly the same as they did on the PSP. The bad news was my eyes would hurt if I spent more than five minutes staring at the monitor.

I then tried to calibrate the monitor with Adobe Gamma, an applet that was included with Photoshop Elements. This proved to be a better solution but I’m still not sure if I got it right. If I erred, my photos will either look too dark with details obscured or too light with the colours washed out.

(This would be a subtle invitation for you to let me know.)