I've just calibrated my monitor, and am working with a new printer (7800) and while retouching in photoshop (only for a few weeks) I started to notice that all the pictures on my monitor, whether in photoshop or just on the net, all look slightly vertically elongated. Meaning everyone looks kind of slender. I have another older system that I compared it to and this monitor definately "thins up" the people.

I have a Dell 1907FP with factory defaults of 1024x768, with the ability to go up to 1280x1024

At higher settings the elongation seems to disappear but the screen seems sort of oversharpened.

My question is what do photographer/retouchers generally set their monitors to.

Thanks in advance.


Michael

You should use LCDs at the highest settings they can display - this is their native resolution.

The only other option is to set them at exactly half their native resolution in each direction - but it's kind of a weird thing to do.