I Can't Believe It!!!!

[artwerx]

I was having a harder and harder time seeing anything on my monitor, so I got a new one today - a sweet, skinny, flat screen. I can't believe the color, vividness, etc.....
:eek: BUT - GUESS WHAT???? This is the embarassing part.......
My old monitor was so far gone, that I was compensating for it's darkness, etc without knowing it. Today I logged on the view my gallery and my layouts look TERRIBLE!!! All the adjusting I did washed out all my layouts, made the colors all wonky, etc.... and I had no idea!!!! And I went through NKOTB5 with my messed up layouts, without even knowing.
How embarassing!! Needless to say, I'll be 're-scrapping' everything. Oh man!

[DSanchez]

Oh I'm so sorry to hear about the layout, I know it will be more work for you but on the bright side congrats on the monitor, I had tried getting a flat panel monitor once and it was not compatible with my computer so I thought it kept messing up and sold it, cheaply thinking it wasn't too good, imagine my shock when it worked beautifuly in my friends computer :(

Hmmmm, next time I'm going for a new computer first, LOL

[MandyT]

I thought I had posted a reply - but obviously with the baby distracting me it got lost... If it is a double reply sorry!

Wanted to say - Oh dear. You have some lovely layouts in the gallery so I really do hope you can adjust the colours (hopefully you have copies of your layouts in their original layer format).

Like Dee I think your monitor loving kitty might not be as thrilled about the skinny flat monitor though!

[mercerph]

Wow sorry about your layouts all looking different. At least you're on the right track now with a new monitor. Have you tried printing any of them?? They might look different again. I tend to have the problem when I print, everything comes out looker much duller than they do on screen. Screen seems to really illuminate them. Good luck anyways :)

[DSanchez]

Oh I've had that problem, it's sometimes either duller, or darker, and on a few rare occasions too bright, alot of times it's where you get them printed but I try to stick to the same place for printing and have learned 90% of the time to compensate for what I think might be the issue before I send it out to print.

Wow sorry about your layouts all looking different. At least you're on the right track now with a new monitor. Have you tried printing any of them?? They might look different again. I tend to have the problem when I print, everything comes out looker much duller than they do on screen. Screen seems to really illuminate them. Good luck anyways :)

[Quirky]

oh man!!!! That just sucks...but just think...once you are all done how proud you will be :):)

[debra8898]

I just wanted to add.. that I have my daughter's flat screen hooked up to my laptop and that flatscreen has the colors so saturated..it's like my layouts are glowing...so a suggestion, make sure you've got the flatscreen calibrated before you change your layouts.. maybe the flatscreen isn't right either :)

[Emma]

ah, here's where ADJUSTMENT layers are your best friends!

you add a Levels or Hue/Sat adjustment layer on TOP of all your other layers to adjust the contrast/brightness. Then the Hue to fix the colors. You have a mask on those so you can paint black over the areas you DON'T want to change

it'll save you a ton of time rather than redoing it all