My eyes literally hurt drawing on this monitor. And because the color are so washed out. I don’t plan to color it yet.
Have you guys ever draw in this kind of monitor. Cheap monitor with tn panel.
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Can relate, I have made some funky colouring decisions because of my monitor. Hopefully one of these ideas will help ease your eye strain?
If you are on windows, you should be able to alter your colour calibration by following these steps:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/learning-center/how-to-color-calibrate-your-monitor
Or you could go to settings (windows) → display → colour management
If you don’t have windows, there should still be some sort of way to alter the appearance of the display, either in settings, or maybe on the monitor itself?
And final option is to make sure that the room around you is well lit. I know it probably sounds silly, but a screen in a dark room can cause terrible eye strain. Make sure you are seated a good distance from the screen too. :- )
I remember not even knowing there is a difference in colors on monitors, back in the days. I never bought cheap monitors ever again after a nasty surprise, seeing all my artworks on a good one and all the colors were almost completely different.
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Do you happen to wear glasses?
If so, I’ve heard that using well adjusted lenses with a comfortable frame can make huge difference.
Art is a life long hobby, so I hope you will resolve this as soon as possible.
edit:
I remembered that I had also suffered from eye strain, and turning down the monitor’s brightness helped a lot.
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Oh yes TN panels are horrible, you just can’t use them for art.
When my main monitor died, I had to use a borrowed one with TN panel for a few days, but just like in your photo, the colors at the top and bottom of the screen were vastly different because it’s so dependent on viewing angle…
Thank goodness they don’t seem to be in many new products anymore, but it feels like there must have been a huuuuge pile of leftover 1366 x 768 TN panels somewhere that got put in all the cheap notebooks out there…took ages until 1080p became the most common resolution, of which most are probably some variant of IPS panels.
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what a familiar experience
yeah, let’s do that. I hope we can get new monitor later.
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i have seen many VA panel monitor, have you used one? i want to know how it compare to regular ips
I didn’t wear on, though i feel i would need one soon
VA is better for contrast, IPS is better for viewing angles. OLED is best for both qualities, but I wouldn’t choose one for a monitor personally as burn in is an inherent risk, especially with static images (I have personal experience of that on a TV).
My current monitor is an IPS, and it’s still going strong after many years. I’m happy with the image quality, but would like a higher-res screen when I eventually upgrade. My previous screen was an expensive VA, but I’m happier with this IPS. I did notice the contrast shift with the VA.
IPS tend to be good for painting because you’ll see less variation due the angle.
I just recommend staying away from LGs if you don’t have the money to buy a new display every year. Had a fair share through the years, and they were sturdy little things. I trusted the brand until my last one. Broke a little over a month after the warranty ended, LG rep just smiled and shrugged. A quick search showed that coincidence has been happening a lot with LGs and while I don’t think it’s on purpose it seems to be a result of shoddier components usage.
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Yes my previous monitor was a PVA panel (Eizo EV2333W), and my current one is IPS.
The PVA devinitely had a much better black level, even though IPS improved a lot from the monitor I had before the Eizo, I was a bit sad to lose that quality.
But the PVA has this angle dependend effect called “gamma shift”, essentially the midtones become brighter as you move away from perpendicular viewing angle. That is a bit annoying, but not anywhere near as bad as TN panels where colors never look the same across the screen…
IPS panels on the other hand suffer from a glow effect that affects dark colors with changing viewing angle.
I’m still torn between the two technologies, VA definitely has so much nicer contrasts, but overall, IPS has the more stable image reproduction. VA used to be much slower on image changes and cause ghosting (it was okay on my Eizo with max overdrive setting, but clearly visible in some situations), but it seems this issue is solved, they’re now actually faster than IPS, a lot of HDR gaming monitors use VA panels…
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thanks for all the replies. @Mythmaker @Celes @Lynx3d.
Btw i actually have never heard Ezio brand
Eizo is (at least it was) a famous company when it comes to high quality displays from the CRT age, and they also had modern flat-screens, but I don’t know if the company survived in this area.
Michelist
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