Mixel ([info]mixelmagic) wrote,
@ 2008-03-27 07:50:00
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MONITOR!!!

...

I love this thing.

I was considering getting a 12" Wacom Cintiq after Dave Cheung bought one and seems to like it, triggering a research spree.. Which led me to the realisation that for £hundreds less I could get an obsceeeeenely nice display instead... (Cintiq was still tempting, but its un-portability lost it for me, I'd want to move it around, or what's the point? it'd be replacing one of my displays too, so that'd be a huge downgrade in screen space...)

Took me days to calibrate the Samsung, but its absolutely gorgeous.. Colour reproduction is spot on (lol, NOW it is), it displays more of the RGB gamut than any other display costing <£1k (that I can find on the internet anyway), it pivots, it's 24" 1920x1200, the colour doesn't change at all regardless of viewing angle.. It has enough inputs for me to plug every console I own (from within the last 10 years anyway) into it simultaneously.. It does Picture In Picture too. - That may seem like a daft feature, but I might have to move the consoles down into the basement when there's a 2 year old running around at console height knocking over PS3s etc, so it's all good.

So, yes it was expensive but I spend over 60% of my time looking at my monitor/s I'd estimate, so I didn't want to compromise on a "good value" panel again. My other monitor's over as a secondary display now, which is great. It never was a good screen for art though, and was a daft purchase. :/ It's good to use as a giant EyeTV/IM/irc/iTunes screen though. :D

Fear it..

Umm, the polar icecaps are overrated anyway.


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[info]spooky_chan
2008-03-27 01:49 pm UTC (link)
pivot, pivot!

good choice. I played with a Cintiq at the last convention i went to, and hated the experience. [probably because the morons had all old systems across the board, including an old Mac to run these things [bad move]- and the salesman denied it was lagging, when clearly it was! It took him awhile to finally admit to it... it was depressing.]

And hey, why are you buying new tech stuff.. all money belong to baby now! ^_~



i know this goes without saying- but post baby kat-mixel hybrid when it arrives! =D

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[info]mixelmagic
2008-03-28 09:04 am UTC (link)
That does seem silly of them plugging it into machines that can't cope. XD Saying that, if it's just a monitor with a wacom built in it should work on a really low spec.. My "old" G5 is no spring chicken, so maybe it wouldn't have liked it either! Couldn't be happier with this monitor though really. :)

Another thing I like about the Intuos is how your hand doesn't get in the way.. People seem to gloss over the advantages of a tablet workflow.. Once used to tablet I really don't think a Cintiq speeds people up much? Maybe I'm wrong. :)

I have a bit of an issue with pivotting, I dont think my slightly suspect flashed graphics card likes it, and i lose some of the bottom of the screen (dont ask me why!).. Saying that, after trying it I'm not sure I'd use it because of the weird way I work in photoshop..

When you're pivotting in PS what do you do with all the palettes? I like to have everything open and down the side, so every time I've had a new monitor they've got smaller and smaller.. In Portrait I guess you just shut them and open them as you need them?


Ooh yes, there'll be lots of photos. :D

Wow, blah blah reply!

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[info]spooky_chan
2008-03-28 03:09 pm UTC (link)
I have no issue in pivoting. It just resizes the screen appropriately and viola, vertical screen. ---Though if you pivot inbetween a photoshop session, or if photoshop remembers where you places boxes, some might still be in the space when you go back to normal res, making them impossible to get at.

It's easy to fix by going back to the previous res and moving the boxes to a neutral area that should show up when you pivot again.

-as for having palettes and stuff open in ps doing portrait mode- I just have layers [in layers i have actions placed with it], main tool box, and that's it. I don't need much, just the basics. :)


i have no idea if i wrote anything that made sense.. i'm like half asleep typing here. I swear i mis-spelled a lot of easy words as i was typing this up.

and yeah- about contiq, the hand does get in the way, which is obnoxious!

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[info]mixelmagic
2008-03-28 06:39 pm UTC (link)
Samsung didn't bother including (or programming any, lol) Mac drivers, so I'm doing the pivotting manually, something somewhere is getting confused. I'll experiment with it again at some point.. I think it /should/ "just work"

If I can get it to work right I'd probably make a photoshop layout profile thing specifically for portrait, as I'm so stuck in the way i do landscape I'd not want to be wibbling that profile's around. :) I'll probably try aligning them all along the top, that will be weird!


I have history, layers.. pretty much most things. XD Might as well post a screenie..

Is my usual layout.. @_@ possibly palette overkill but I use the history (and history brush) quite a lot, so need those, I have custom colour swatches under the colour thinger (especially for CMO stuff)..

You made perfect sense too, hehe.

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