Beyond Brightness and Contrast

When you occasionally open advanced display properties on your PC you might notice there is a tab for controlling gamma parameters. I was always curious why gamma controls might be required and more importantly how to use them properly. Despite this fact I never had enough courage to get my teeth into the topic until today...

Leaving aside a boring story of what finally pushed me beyond brightness and contrast monitor controls I just want to promote an excellent tutorial by Norman Koren on monitor calibration and gamma.

Linux users might want to start with Monitor calibration under X article at linux.com which originally led me to the Norman's site.