Quote Originally Posted by rossmum View Post
I'm quite aware of that. I have better night sight than most of my friends. However, I'm also quite aware that on a moonless night, there are still going to be things you can't see worth shit. I don't want to overbrighten it (and not nearly as much as you did) because then it will look like shit on my monitor. Mine. I created this to look right on my monitor, not yours. I don't know what settings you use, for all I know you could have your brightness at 0% and your contrast at 5%. I have them at 10% and 100% (of what my monitor can do by itself) and it looks fine to me. Sure I have to squint if there's glare off the dust on my screen, but in normal lighting conditions it's fine. If you can't see it, either do something about your monitor settings or don't bother to look at it at all. I want useful crit, not people trying to customise my work to fit their bloody settings.


Or, you know, on the leeward side of a large building on a moonless night (although that's irrelevant anyway, since it's not dark at all on my monitor). My goal was to reproduce what I'd see in that environment, and I more or less nailed it (if anything, there's too much colour). It might be entirely wrong on your monitor, but that's your problem, not mine. I don't want to fuck about with guesswork when it comes to deciding the level of brightness, colour and contrast i use.
If you don't want critique on something, or if you're not going to accept critique, then don't post stuff.

If you're wanting something to look good to you only, then there's no point in showing it to other people, when everyone else agrees that it looks like crap.

I made it that bright just so that people could see what was actually in the image, I wasn't trying to fix it for you.

I looked at it on two different monitors, Conscars couldn't see shit, CorndogMan couldn't see shit, neither of my monitors could make out any images on it... Nobody commented on anything in the actual image (either because of how you exploded at both CorndogMan and Conscars... or just because they can't see shit either....) but you're right. It's us, not you.