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7 Aug 04

+ 6pts to the Curvaceous Miss Molly by John down under

Adelaide, Australia


This is my workspace with my new 21" main monitor and 17" secondary monitor (portrait orientation) running off a dual DVI NVIDIA card (great multimonitor and multiwindow support).
Some of you may remember that my CRT monitor blew up while I was moderating C9, which precipitated my upgrade to LCD.
The Eizo FlexScan L985EX main monitor is superb for image viewing, although too slow for video editing. At the time of this posting, I have yet to calibrate with a colorimeter.
The second monitor is angled in to form another curve in this setup.

I don't suppose anyone else will be brave enough to include a curvaceous rear end of a loved one in C14! ;o)
You can see the 'Curves' dialog sitting among the Photoshop palettes on the right hand monitor as I bolster Miss Molly's curves.
The PS CS elements I have open on the right hand monitor are (from the left) the main toolbar, History palette, Layers palette, Histogram, Actions palette and Info palette (at lower right), plus of course the Curves dialogue sitting on top of the History and Layers palettes.
Molly is keeping an eye on the night-time neighbourhood through the window while the Australian Football League goal umpire signals a goal (6 pts) on the digital TV window on my second monitor, or perhaps he is actually trying to signal 6 pts for Molly! ;o)






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Minolta DiMAGE A1
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Guest 15-Aug-2004 10:51
Don, I've e-mailed you about the image quality of my main monitor vs a CRT. My main LCD monitor is an absolute joy to work with, but it is also kind of expensive. I would use it over a good CRT any day as the image quality is better in every way than my old CRT monitor and better in many ways than even very good CRTs. Good CRT colour is hard to beat, but my monitor is capable of coming close. Once I calibrate my new monitor, I'll know even better how good it is. Cheers, John
Guest 15-Aug-2004 10:05
G'day Philip. It might not shout curves, but there are the curves of Molly's rear end and the more subtle curves that are being applied in Photoshop. In case you didn't read the caption, the Curves dialog is open on the right monitor and in fact its effect is being previewed on the image on the left monitor. Thanks for stopping by to look and comment. Cheers, John
Philip Potts 14-Aug-2004 17:51
John, while I like to overall composition of your entry, I just don't get the feelings of "curves." Gonna, have to give you the 4 points on the other entry. LOL
Donald Lynch13-Aug-2004 04:25
JDU,
I like the way it seems that Molly is watching the game. I try to pick up every game when ESPN airs them here in the States. BTW how good is the color and pic of the LCD over a CRT?
Konica Minolta Users11-Aug-2004 01:43
Hey John, you're driving Assar nuts again. He's sitting by my computer drooling.
Cheers!
Fred
Claudio Gatti10-Aug-2004 22:58
Ahhh, you go for techno-lust! I have to say a pretty impressive setup. Congratulation

Claudio
Guest 10-Aug-2004 12:40
Thanks for the comments.
Maybe an ant will appear yet ... or not. Time will tell. :o)
Cheers, John
Guest 09-Aug-2004 23:40
Nice John, I just checked to see if anyone else had the PS "Curves", and you beat me to the punch....line, that is. Very nice set up. My monitor is cranked up all the way just to see the dang images. The one piece of equipment that gets looked at the most and overlooked the most. Again, nice job.
Guest 08-Aug-2004 16:17
I like your Sennheisers :o) .. And, you're watching Aussie rules footie ... ? Oh Gosh, I'll never understand that game. Few of them tried to explain, but I'm hopeless.
Konica Minolta Users08-Aug-2004 03:51
Very nice set-up! But where's the ant?
Guest 07-Aug-2004 13:39
Oooo baby...I think Suzanne Sommers is going to be jealous. Implants or digital enhancement? I like the curves in a very linear composition.
Bob
P.S. I also have a new case of monitor envy.