Comments on: DreamColor for DreamWorks http://www.planetphotoshop.com/dreamcolor-for-dreamworks.html Online Photoshop Tutorials, News and Tips Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:09:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Glenn Chan http://www.planetphotoshop.com/dreamcolor-for-dreamworks.html/comment-page-1#comment-1539 Glenn Chan Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:05:50 +0000 http://www.planetphotoshop.com/dreamcolor-for-dreamworks.html#comment-1539 The 30-bit color (10bits/channel) will need a 10-bit video card + the corresponding color to take advantage of that. I believe ATI is coming out with such a video card... hopefully the software (e.g. Photoshop) will support 10-bit output to the monitor too. I think this is the unique thing about this monitor as there are others out there with wide gamut (e.g. NEC) and 1000:1 contrast ratio. The CRT can do better than 1000:1 contrast ratio on dark scenes (bright scenes have lower contrast due to flare) and when the CRT has little glare from lighting (LCDs are much more resistant against glare/ambient lighting). In a dark room, the blacks on a 1000:1 LCD will still be glow in the dark: http://colorcorrection.info/monitoring/surround-effects-part-2/ (*The image there is from my Macbook pro, which is not 1000:1. But I've seen other 1000:1 LCDs and they still look glow in the dark. There is the ecinema DPX monitor... $38K... with >15,000:1 contrast ratio and it has true blacks that are slightly better than CRT's. But it's not priced for the Photoshop market.) The 30-bit color (10bits/channel) will need a 10-bit video card + the corresponding color to take advantage of that. I believe ATI is coming out with such a video card… hopefully the software (e.g. Photoshop) will support 10-bit output to the monitor too. I think this is the unique thing about this monitor as there are others out there with wide gamut (e.g. NEC) and 1000:1 contrast ratio.

The CRT can do better than 1000:1 contrast ratio on dark scenes (bright scenes have lower contrast due to flare) and when the CRT has little glare from lighting (LCDs are much more resistant against glare/ambient lighting). In a dark room, the blacks on a 1000:1 LCD will still be glow in the dark:
http://colorcorrection.info/monitoring/surround-effects-part-2/
(*The image there is from my Macbook pro, which is not 1000:1. But I’ve seen other 1000:1 LCDs and they still look glow in the dark. There is the ecinema DPX monitor… $38K… with >15,000:1 contrast ratio and it has true blacks that are slightly better than CRT’s. But it’s not priced for the Photoshop market.)

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