VIEWING THE IMAGES ON YOUR COMPUTER:

Images on the web are low-resolution and their colors are compressed. Prints of these images will be much sharper and more detailed and will have a wider color range than seen here. Also, most computer screens are not optimized for viewing images. You may be seeing an even poorer representation of the image.

In order too see them as well as possible look at the step wedge below, which has 10 shades of gray. If you cannot distinguish all the shades, especially the darkest two, adjust your screen's brightness control (usually marked by a little sun) toward its maximum value until the blackest tone just lightens to gray. Then bring it back down until it just becomes black again. Then set the contrast (usually marked by a circle with a white and a black half) for pleasant viewing brightness. You should now be able to distinguish all the shades of gray.

Many screens also have a color cast that will mask the true colors of the images, but that is beyond the scope of this quick-fix.

The best viewing for any use of the computer is in low ambient light, but you should make this adjustment in the light conditions in which you will be viewing your monitor.