Topic awaiting preservation: Just like old times

Some of you may recognize this as my old sig, but I couldn't find the original, so I made it again.

The white lines! Ouch!

AHHH! My eyes! My eyes! LOL! This is much better now.

It still cuts off a wee bit too sharp.

Yep, the transparency isn't working...

The color settings on my monitor must be off cause it looks fine to me. I will adjust the settings and take a look at it.

Yup, your monitor must be quite dark.

My old monitor was rather dark, and would show the BG here as almost black...and a couple of my sigs seemed to blend in great until I looked at them from another computer =)

Just out of curiosity, how do you know you have the correct monitor settings? Isn't it all subjective?

I don't know if there is any such thing as "correct" but there is definately a point at which it is simply too dark or too light.

But, even that is rather subjective I suppose.

"Correct" is when rgb(254,254,254), for instance, is exactly twice as bright as rgb(126,126,126). It's when the RGB numbers are exactly proportional to the brightness of their respective colors on the screen (brightness = c * value, where 0 <= value <= 1).

Lots of PC monitors have very high gammas, which mean they darken the colors in the middle. (something close to brightness = c * (value ^ 2.2). 2.2 is the gamma value. Macs, I believe, usually have 1.8.) My laptop screen has a different sort of gamma curve, I believe, but it seems to be very close to correct. That sig has more problems on the dark background than on the light one. But I've seen this forum on a dark monitor, and I understand that you can't see the difference. Nonetheless, it should be fixed.

So how does one set the monitor to be "correct?" I have tried to eyeball it, but I would rather it be done right.

OK, I adjusted my monitor and changed the transparency to blend a bit better. It seems to be better now, unless my monitor is still off. Input anyone?

Looks good on this end...

You want some old times? Woo!
Talk about old times...I have gotta use photoshop more...

SLOLOEM !!! Long time , no hear .

And where have you been, young man ?

~taps foot impatiently~