I have a Samsung SyncMaster P2570 26" LCD but many times when looking at pictures they will look much darker on my lcd. My sister brought over a CD of wedding pictures, they looked at them on her laptop and they looked great. We popped the DVD in on my computer but many of the pictures were so dark you could barely make out who was who. I turned up the Gamma way up and bumped up the brightness and contrast a little. But bumping up the Hue as I have it set to 0%, it made everything so washed out whitesh looking......but the pictures then looked much better. Calibration tools cost too much..Text and websites look fine and pictures generally look ok at my settings, not great......I have a GeForce 8500 gt graphics card running at 1920 x 1000..any help, ideas or suggestions? Rudy __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6282 (20110710) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------