Small sized monitor - silly question

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I know that I'm renowned for asking daft questions, so why change the habit of a lifetime. When editing running images which will be seen mainly on mobiles and tables, I'd like to use a "small" monitor rather than the 27 inch one I normally use for my other work. Anything decent out there which I could use? The surface pro 2, which I bought on the forum, is a bit too small. The image quality is brilliant!
READY to be hammered by some members.
 
I use a Dell 19" monitor and find it fine.

If you really want it I'm sure I could sell it to you for an exorbitant figure :-)
 
A bit of spare real estate can be useful when editing, but at normal viewing distances with the monitor at finger tip length,
then even a 24" screen is more than you can take in in a single glance.

However you can certainly buy monitors in the region of 15 to 18 inches. But I would find one of that size not that useful or comfortable to sit at. And would have to use strong reading glasses to use one.

For that reason I have settled on a 25" one, as a good compromise.
 
mossienet said:
I know that I'm renowned for asking daft questions, so why change the habit of a lifetime. When editing running images which will be seen mainly on mobiles and tables, I'd like to use a "small" monitor rather than the 27 inch one I normally use for my other work. Anything decent out there which I could use? The surface pro 2, which I bought on the forum, is a bit too small. The image quality is brilliant!
READY to be hammered by some members.
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Can i ask why? Seems a bit 'daft' ;)
 
minnnt said:
Can i ask why? Seems a bit 'daft' ;)
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When I go through 750+ images from a race on my "normal" screen, I'm too picky with what will look "okay" to send out. Small imperfections are corrected etc and I'm binning quite a few images. When I look at the photos on the surface pro 2, they look absolutely fine and why did I bother spending ages on whether they were sharp enough etc. I suppose the best thing to do, is to "restrict" the size I view them in LR6. You know me MINNNT, I'm as thick as a brick!
 
This may be a daft response and if it is well ......... ;)

I'm guessing you are using your editing program full screen, why not use it windowed and make it smaller so the images within will scale and also be smaller ...:wacky:
 
PaulButler said:
This may be a daft response and if it is well ......... ;)

I'm guessing you are using your editing program full screen, why not use it windowed and make it smaller so the images within will scale and also be smaller ...:wacky:
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The only way I know to "window it" is to pull in the 3 sides of Lightroom. Is there another way Paul?
 
I'm not sure how well you know Windows or mac os, the methods are similar on both iirc (it has been a while since I used a mac). Apologies if you already know this too ...

Normally LR will open maximised (by default it doesn't but every instance I've seen it is so ...) the top right on Windows will look like this:
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note the two stacked rectangles in the middle. Click this to normalise LR and the top right of LR should look like this:
c2.JPG

If you now carefully place your mouse cursor over a corner it will change into a double-headed arrow - click and hold once it does and drag to a suitable size.

When done, click the middle single square box and it will maximise LR again, when you need to view in a smaller "monitor", just click the two squares and windows (and mac os) will remember what size LR was last normalised to.

Hope that makes sense.
 
PaulButler said:
I'm not sure how well you know Windows or mac os, the methods are similar on both iirc (it has been a while since I used a mac). Apologies if you already know this too ...

Normally LR will open maximised (by default it doesn't but every instance I've seen it is so ...) the top right on Windows will look like this:
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note the two stacked rectangles in the middle. Click this to normalise LR and the top right of LR should look like this:
View attachment 99742

If you now carefully place your mouse cursor over a corner it will change into a double-headed arrow - click and hold once it does and drag to a suitable size.

When done, click the middle single square box and it will maximise LR again, when you need to view in a smaller "monitor", just click the two squares and windows (and mac os) will remember what size LR was last normalised to.

Hope that makes sense.
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That is how I view many programs...
I am viewing TP like that now It is easier to read than spread right across the screen.
 
PaulButler said:
I'm not sure how well you know Windows or mac os, the methods are similar on both iirc (it has been a while since I used a mac). Apologies if you already know this too ...

Normally LR will open maximised (by default it doesn't but every instance I've seen it is so ...) the top right on Windows will look like this:
View attachment 99741
note the two stacked rectangles in the middle. Click this to normalise LR and the top right of LR should look like this:
View attachment 99742

If you now carefully place your mouse cursor over a corner it will change into a double-headed arrow - click and hold once it does and drag to a suitable size.

When done, click the middle single square box and it will maximise LR again, when you need to view in a smaller "monitor", just click the two squares and windows (and mac os) will remember what size LR was last normalised to.

Hope that makes sense.
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AND, the daft thing is, I've seen it on my screen and hadn't put 2 and 2 together to make 5. That's absolutely spot on. Made the background a solid colour and away we go.
Ask a silly question and get a brilliant answer!
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