{"id":16,"date":"2010-05-23T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nirajkedar.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2010-08-09T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:53:43","slug":"why-do-pictures-appear-dull-on-my-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/why-do-pictures-appear-dull-on-my-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do pictures appear dull on my monitor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Folks,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">To truly appreciate a picture on a computer, it has to be viewed on a color corrected\/calibrated monitor. While there are sophisticated hardware tools available for this purpose that sell for hundreds of dollars, there are softwares available too. And the good news is that some of them are free.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Check these out:<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">http:\/\/www.e-cobo.com\/stockphotos\/quality\/calibration.php<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">http:\/\/www.hex2bit.com\/products\/product_mcw.asp<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">With Adobe Gamma(this doesnt need a tutorial. But anyway..):<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">http:\/\/www.nature-photography-central.com\/simple_monitor_calibration.html<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">For the technically inclined:<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">http:\/\/www.normankoren.com\/makingfineprints1A.html<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">Happy viewing..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, To truly appreciate a picture on a computer, it has to be viewed on a color corrected\/calibrated monitor. While there are sophisticated hardware tools available for this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}