monitor madness

[Sierra Rose]

I'm going nuts with getting the monitor ratios correct. Here is an image of two babies. The one on the left is an older drawing that I don't like and with skin colors I no longer want. The one on the right is my new baby with differing proportions and skin color. The one on the right moves much better.

On the monitor where I see the drawing I'm doing, the baby on the right with the higher cranium looks right. But when I move my preview window over to my other monitor, it elongates too much. (stretches in height). Also when I see it on my internet computer, it looks wrong and the baby on the left looks better....even though one reason I gave him up was the shape and size of his cranium looked too squashed after I drew him.

If you can ignore the color differences and just focus on the this ratio problem...can you see the one on the right as being correct or does it look to stretched to you? And what do people do with the fact that everyone's monitor may not be the same?

I want to set my "drawing" monitor so I see correctly, but I don't know how...the gadgets that do that have no default or normal. Is there a way to do this so both my monitors are the same?

It's alarming to see your drawings change so much....and I wonder if I drew them wrong in the first place because my monitor was distorted.

Do I need to buy a new monitor with better ability to control the settings maybe? Has anyone had to solve this kind of problem?

[Paul Fierlinger]

Sierra, have you tried to fidget with screen settings under Properties? Right click on your desktop and go to properties/settings,screen resolutions. Move the slider a bit and look at the diagram of the screen above, which will tell you what your image will look like.

[Sierra Rose]

We are talking about the adjustments for the monitors themselves. The properties settings are Windows' settings, which is different.

I may have to buy a new monitor where I can get better control. There is some software where you can control the monitor settings with mouse and keyboard I haven't tried yet.

It sounds like you've never had any problem like this, eh?

[Paul Fierlinger]

Sorry, I've never had that problem -- I thought you might have just "thought" it was the monitor. Other than that I have no idea, but yes, the Government wants you to buy a new monitor; it would be a patriotic good deed.

[Sierra Rose]

Well I traded the places of my 2 monitors so the one that gives me more control settings is now my drawing monitor. And I am having to change the drawings to get rid of the elongated look I unwittingly created. Thank God I haven't painted yet.....or thank whomever controls these things in the Universe.

But when I get back from Italy, I will look into getting a new monitor...a flat screen one perhaps. Oooo la la....the anticipation.

BTW: Norman is reading Summer of Hummingbirds and sharing enjoyable passages. My turn next. Thanks for the tip.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Next; Requiem, Mass by John Dufresne. I'd love to be around long enough to turn that into an animated feature. It's funny, witty, outrageous, eccentric, superb writing and in my opinion the best book he has yet written and I think I liked all the other ones (maybe there was one I didn't care for). This must be particularly enjoyable for anyone who grew up Catholic.

[idragosani]

But when I get back from Italy, I will look into getting a new monitor...a flat screen one perhaps. Oooo la la....the anticipation.

Oh, yeah, you will love using the flatscreen! I can't imagine ever having to use a CRT ever again! I never could quite get the CRT screen to be in the correct proportions, it always seemed slightly distorted on one side or the colors weren't even across the screen.