Looks much better Carole! Rod is right in that many laptop screens aren't the best for image editing. The newer ones with LED backlights are a bit better usually. Also so many of them now come with glossy screens- as do many desktop monitors for that matter. The trouble with glossy is it makes everything look so slick and contrasty that your edited images going to print or to be viewed by others are likely to not have enough contrast except on your monitor. I was about to buy an Apple laptop with a slick glossy screen recently until I saw on their site a recommendation to use a matte screen if you are doing any kind of editing- so that's what I got. Of course their cheapest notebooks and all of their all-in-one iMacs only come with glossy screens- silly. Don't forget you can hook up a desktop screen to most any laptop these days, just be sure and do calibration for that screen if you are going to edit with it. I myself am stuck in monitor limbo right now waiting for more desktop screens to come out with LED backlights- better picture and better for the environment.
~Brent
Rod
19-Jul-2008 03:01
This is a million times better on my screen, I think it might be your laptop screen Carole they arn't that good for editing picys. The clouds look more natural & I can see the tonal range from bottom to top of the mountains now as there was just blackness in the first version. The picy now looks great mate.
I'll see what I can do with the mountains and maybe just a tad lighter in the clouds but I rather like the clouds Rod! :-) CJ
Rod
18-Jul-2008 12:19
Very good try Carole but I think you have gone a bit overboard. The clouds look too over processed & the bottom is burnt in too much. Back everything you did off by about 30 to 40% & you might have a great zone picy megirl.
Very nice. I like the clouds!! Very nice!
Suggestion: I think the mountains are a lil on the darker side. It might help just to select the rocks and lighten them. Also the top most layer of the clouds can be darkened a bit.
-Cat