Cover Photo on Homepage

[Kevin O'Beirne]

Suggestion: Perhaps the forum administrators could "brighten up" the wet-plate images submitted for consideration for the homepage of this website. Many of the images posted--including the one that's on the homepage right now--are so dark with such poor contrast that it's almost difficult to read them. I little brushing up, brightening, and sometimes increased contrast with Adobe Photoshop or a similar program would do wonders for making them easier to view.

[MomKelly]

Are you sure it is not your monotor?

for a long time, I could only see the images correctly at home until I got a new monotor at work. now they apear just fine.

Personally I think if you allow photoshoping to improve the images for some to see you might as well allow photos taken using modern methods and photoshoped to look like wet plates.

Personally I think you would open a whole can of worms....and well the whole thing will degrade.

Catherine Kelly

[Eric Tipton]

Kevin:

Might be the monitor. I brightened this image in Photoshop (and each month) with the idea that I have to account for older models so everyone can see it. On my office and home computer, it shows up very bright - almost too bright (but not quite).

Since it has been brought up, has anyone else had the same problem?

[edwardwatson]

Looks bright to me, as Eric said, almost too bright on this month's image.

[HOG.EYE.MAN]

Everything looks fine to me. At work, I visit the AC on 5 different computers sometimes.

[trippcor]

Eric,
On mine, it does not have a lot of contrast between the background and the subjects of the image. They are faded together and the detail is hard to see.

[Eric Tipton]

I went ahead and tinkered a bit and increased the contrast, but kept the brightness the same. Have a look and let me know if that helps.

[toptimlrd]

I've noticed on the image I have submitted a couple fo times that it looks more washed out on line than it does on my computer. Unfortunately it also seems to lose its detail. I do photoshop it to brighten it so maybe I should post it in its natural untouched state and try once more to make the cover. As to the image this month, it looks grat on both of my laptops and my home computer, of course they all have LCD screens so I don't know if a CRT monitor may be different.

[trippcor]

Looks better to me. The detail is much clearer.