Image Quality on different monitors - Help

Hi after doing a a fair amount of airbrushing, i was quite pleased with the (attached) results, using a new technique i found on the forum...all was well.

Then by chance I viewed the image on another monitor..LCD again and to my horror the airbrushing looked ghastly...my original monitor had been calibrated but now i am wondering if this is to blame....

So any views on the attached airbrushing good or bad would be welcomed..and any good calibration techniques also welcomed

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Welcome to the forum. Is the image above sRGB or Adobe RGB? What methods do you use to save your files for web?

Hi thanks for the welcome..the image is sRGB, all originals are saved as photoshop..but then the final image is flattened and saved as a jpeg to allow me to save on website.

Do you start in sRGB? Or do you convert at some point during your editing? I am not at home on my calibrated monitor but the skin doesnt look bad to me. Are you sure the other monitor is set up properly? Perhaps it is not set to its native resolution. Or maybe it stretched the image to fit the screen.

sRGB is used throughout so no conversion takes place..i am not aware if the other monitor is calibrated...although it was a better quality monitor than mine which is why it raised concern...to say the airbrushing looked ghastly is an understatement it was definatley a delete and start again moment

sgps wrote in post #2907884
sRGB is used throughout so no conversion takes place..i am not aware if the other monitor is calibrated...although it was a better quality monitor than mine which is why it raised concern...to say the airbrushing looked ghastly is an understatement it was definatley a delete and start again moment

It definately doesn't look that bad on my monitor, but I can check again when I get home.

thanks much appreciated

Other than the fact that you lost some sharpness in attaching the image _ it looks fine on my calibrated monitor. Use a image hosting service and you won't lose the detail.

Add: it even looks better on my new installed Apple Cinema series

In2Photos wrote in post #2907908
It definately doesn't look that bad on my monitor, but I can check again when I get home.

I looked again at home and it seems fine.

Looks fine here on my calibrated monitor.

Interesting that you should post this topic as just last evening I had the almost identical experience. I was visiting a friend of mine who has a new LCD monitor. I had a look at my website and nearly had a heart attack. My friend however has said that he's sure that something isn't right as a lot of images look quite poor so he's checking further to see if there is a problem with his monitor.

This morning I called a few other friends to ask them how things looked on their monitors and all reports were good, so I'm feeling a bit more relaxed now.

many thanks for your responses.

I guess i can put it down to the fact that calibration is worthwhile. I just have never witnessed the changes being so dramatic and noticable before, so it was interesting to hear that this is not an isolated incident.

Lesson learnt I guess "ensure all monitors are calibrated"

sgps wrote in post #2912910
many thanks for your responses.

I guess i can put it down to the fact that calibration is worthwhile. I just have never witnessed the changes being so dramatic and noticable before, so it was interesting to hear that this is not an isolated incident.

Lesson learnt I guess "ensure all monitors are calibrated"

Hehe, good luck with that. The image should still look fine (although maybe some color shifts) on a non-calibrated screen. I still think your friends monitor was not set to its native resolution.

The airbrushed look looks a little overdone to me. My monitor is calibrated. I don't think it looks ghastly, it just looks a little too soft. I think the odd look on the girls face on the left is intensified with the airbrush effect. Overall nice job though. Was this an Implied nude? Or, was it an actual nude?

i beleive the image is softer than the original due to reshrinking without any sharpening to allow it to be attached.

I havent really tried airbrushing before, as i prefer to keep the image as natural as possible. However, the technique i found on here seems to be less invasive than most so i have been experimenting to get it down to a minimal acceptable level. I dont think its far off just a matter or personal preferences now.

the shoot was implied

I have had the experience where I have edited on a monitor and it looked fine, and then when viewed on a different monitor I would see obvious editing artifacts that were just not visable on the other one. Turns out that for me this usually happens when the 2nd monitor is brighter than the first, revealing imperfections that were just lost to darkness on the monitor where it looked good. Like I had this pic where I did a bunch of cloning in a dark black area and it looked good after my edit, but on the brighter monitor all sorts of brush strokes and blobs were revealed.

I am not sure if this is a good method or not but now when I am done working with a pic I temporarily jack the brightness all the way up and see if any imperfections are revealed. Not everyone has a profiled monitor and someone might look at your pics with their brightness set at 1000%