Is this the same monitor you use for color correction? :)

Dave T2

Grazie, try my custom trick I mentioned a month or so back. If you're using Microsoft's Explorer browser just changing the settings under Tools/Internet options/fonts can make a BIG difference.

If you want to go the extra step try unchecking different options under accessibility, formatting. When I was having more trouble with my Bell's Palsy and could hardly see at all I wrote a quick custom style sheet using really BIG bold fonts to make it easier for me to see. Should work good to for some LCD screens.

BB - It's the "read" items that I wish to be lighter. Yes, a month ago I did take heed of your advice, but did not get what I want.

No, I don't do colour correction on this monitor I have an analogue TV for that. But there again you R pulling my . . . . leg . .

As being confused with another colleague here . . I'm honored and . . might I say, somewhat flattered that you believe I've acquired that level of expertise with V4. Thank you. Too kind.

Grazie

Consider leg pulled.

Dave T2

What is the exact problem? I don't understand what this thread is about?

JBJones

Okay dokey . . . I'm feeling awake. . . here goes . .

When you view this Forum, the unread posts are in a DARK blue. Once having been read, they appear in a LIGHTER blue. However, the dark and light blues, for me, appear very similar . . making it difficult for me to see the difference and therefore I can't clearly ascertain which posts I've read and those posts I haven't read. What I'm asking for is that SOny-Forum webmiester would consider making the READ posts appear in a "lighter" maybe even a "light" GREY, so that I can clearly tell which I've READ and those I haven't read . . . . nothing more nothing less.

Grazie

Hey Grazie! Is this da monsta? FYI, my old inspironette and new m60 do not have this difficulty. Very distinct colors. Sounds like a system setting problem. Cheers from snowy colorado. DGrob

Maybe its your laptop's LCD screen?

On a properly calibrated monitor unread posts should be black. Threads you read are a teal blue, when you hover over a link prior to clicking it should be a medium gray.

Looking at the source (of this web page) you get: these values:

A:link{color: #000000; text-decoration: underline}
A:active{color: #999999; text-decoration: none}
A:visited{color: #3f5a70; text-decoration: underline}
A:hover{color: #666666; text-decoration: none}

Click view source under View at the top of your browser. The values are in hexadecimal.

The easy one is black: 000000. The other extreme is FFFFFF or white using hexidecimal explained briefly below.

You can quickly convert between RGB and hex values here:

http://www.colorcombo.com/bghex.html

So if you enter the hex 3f 5a 70 at the above site the colors of the page background will change accordingly.

The 99 99 99 should give you a mediumish gray.

For those wondering what the heck hexidemical is, its just another numbering system based on 16 that unlike the decimal system we're all more use to uses the numbers 0 through 9 then uses A-B-C-D-E and F. Which is probably more than you want ot know. I got carried away again. ;-)

BB - Thanks for your IT wisdom. Much appreciated. It bothers me somewhat I need to go to these lengths to "tweak" colours to show what I need.

Knowing my own levels of incompetence, I'll most likely make a hash of it and result in my getting the microwave to switch on and the hot water kettle to play Jimi Hendrix! - Oh, just received a "Warning" that my mouse batteries are running low! This I understand and I can make the necessary "adjustments" - I take out the batteries and pop in some re-charged ones . . easy! I like this. . . .Anyways . .. as I said your wisdom and experience on these more "fundamental" elements of the "Dark Art" of IT scares me to death. Apart from anything else it - IMHO - shouldn't be this hard. All I want is for the read posts to appear as . . well . . being read . . . HExi whatnots truly leave me waaaaaay behind. - yeah? I'm sure if you were sitting here in my place you would fix this in a trice . . . I've not come from an IT background and quiver every time NAV throws a wobbly and I'm reduced to reinstalling the whole Symantec pack!

UPDATE . . . : I've left my wishes with this Forum's WebMiester. I've given him - I know it's a "him" 'cos he gave me his firstname - a "screen-grab" of the situation: READS almost appear as UNREADS in terms of colour-ways. I hope he can come up with some good news.

Look lads, thanks for the support - and no Grobsie, it aint the MONSTA!, it's my DellBoy that I've now allocated the position of purely my Internet access and office workhorse. The MONSTA! will solely be my S-V4 Creative laboratory. I've temporalily plugged the DellBoy into one of the 17" Samsungs - ppphhoooarrh, what a screen! NOW I can see the value of large real estate!

Okay, I aint pleading "Victim" here. I know my limitations . . and in a funny old way see myself as a litmus of that which the averagely competent Forum User is prepared to accommodate, in terms of "tinkering" with things that are at a fundamental level. If it is this hard for me, then the chances are that there're others that also maybe having this issue and don't wish to raise their heads above the IT parapet - yeah? I'm prepared for others to come back at me saying things like -"So you've got IT and you don't wish to help yourself?!?! Well you don't deserve to be on the planet?!?" - well, come on out and say it - c'mon!

. . . BB I do wish you were here . . . well you aren't and me appearing to be intransigent - which you haven't said, neither have others, yet - is well founded in fear.

Oh, BB, your comment, "On a properly calibrated monitor unread posts should be black" . . well they are - mebad. The Unreads are, on second and really careful viewing - BLACK. I say this because I need to get my angle of attack of my eyes to the screen at quite a steep, maybe 45 degrees from the Screen plane - yeah? Then I can see unreads as BLACK and the READS as the teal blue, as you say. . But sitting in my "normal position", with my eyes slightly downward looking, with the flattie slightly tilted upwards, making my sight line at right angles to the screen's plane, I can't get enough colour difference between BLACK and the TEAL BLUE.

My very best regards,

Grazie

Well I bit the bullet.

I rumaged around the the View and saw the "visited" colour format. I even went to the website you said - excellent site eh!!?? - I located a hexi-whatnot that appealled to me - #63e9ff - it's a type of torquoise, very nice, fits in very well with the colour way of the rest of the Forum setup and is very restful. But can't, as yet, make this the "preffered" visitied thread colour. Of course this is because everytime I refresh or go back to the Forum openning screen my "temporary" settings are being ignored.

Well I have learnt a lot. I haven't yet got what I want, but I've taken that first Giant step - yeah?

BB, how do I force my own settings to AND only to the Vegas forum openning screen? I don't want to have this affect others forums or other websites I go to . . yeah?

Do you have the next step in this tute on this issue you are helping me with?

. . . . apologies for being a woozie on this in my previous post . . .

Best regards,

Grazie

Marquat - No Sun coming onto screen. Blind in place.

Thank you for acknowledging my difficulty, "I agree that the already-visited colour is hard to detect" - I as begining to thnk it was only moi! [ oh that's the extent of my French . . well maybe a bit more . . .

Also your pointers to where I can "dabble" further to setting my flattie. Here yer go . .what is a ".CSS " ? And how does this affect the situation I'm in . . hmmm?

Grazie

Oui! D'acord! [ . . . . is that any good - ;-) ]

Grazié

Thanks - much appreciated.

G

Grazie,

I don't want to sound rude, but how do you edit video on a monitor when black looks like DARK blue at your viewing angle, instead of black? For that matter, how do you calibrate a monitor like that?

JBJones

Nope, you are not being rude. This is something I really need to get "right". It wasn't too long ago after reading Prof BB's threads on correctly setting one's own analogue monitor, that I was then able to see how good my budget MATSUI TV really was - yeah?

But, Mr Jones, if I need more tuition and a place that I can get free and open support as to any of my NLE issues - V4 related of course - I'll come here - Is that okay with you? This whole matter of getting enough of a differential between Read and UNREAD posts is where I'm focussing on. I'll take your comments in the way they are meant too - both Supportive and Encouraging.

Yours Gratefully,

Grazie