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Calibrate the Color on Your Monitor
By: Kris Driessen
Are the colors you are seeing on your monitor true? If the fabrics you order don't seem to match the fabrics you receive, you may need to calibrate your monitor. Click here for special tips for AOL users.
Take a look at these two pictures. If your monitor is properly calibrated you should see 21 distinct and equal steps of each color in each one. If not, check the manual for your monitor to learn how to adjust it. Photoshop has a calibration facility if you have v.5 or above. Click here for more information.
AOL Users! Did you know that your graphics were compressed? Go to your settings, then click on preference and Internet Properties WWW. AOL Internet Properties should come up. Go to the Web Graphics tab and pick "never compress graphics" and click okay. Be prepared to be amazed at the quality of the graphics you now see on the Internet!
To speed up surfing, clear your cache. On the AOL Toolbar -- second group of options - [My Files/My AOL/Favorites] choose My AOL --> Preferences --> WWW. You will get a pop up box (looks the same as the IE Internet Tools). On the General Tab screen in the Temporary Internet Files box, click Delete Files.