Technical - Digital - Check Your Monitor

Mike Fuller has provided the club with a test image which members should download and view on their own monitors.

• Right Click on the following link and choose 'Save Target As... / Save Image As...' Download Test Image
  
• Monitors should be warmed up having been turned on for at least 30 minutes
  
• The monitor must be viewed in a darkened room
  
• The test image should be viewed within Photoshop, or whichever software is used for image preparation, and the Zoom tool used to view each of the test patterns in turn.
  
• The top line of 19 lightness values should all be visible
  
• The highlights detector shades should be visible. The 2 lightest shades of yellow may tend to merge
  
• On the blacks detector The number 10 should be visible. Some detail may be just visible to the left of number 10.
  
• Look for good flesh tones, an absence of colour cast in the bridal white dress and mono image.
  
• All other colours should look realistic.

If members monitors show all these points then their jpeg images will be optimised when viewed on the club projector.