Friday, January 16, 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m deep into final layout for the February issue of Horizons magazine.\u00a0 That\u2019s where all my focus and energy has gone this week.\u00a0 My office is a maze of papers and Post It Notes.\u00a0 Last year when I bought a new computer, a wide screen monitor came with it.\u00a0 The new monitor had taken some getting used to, since everything was not only wider now but bigger as well, but I got used to it pretty quickly.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
I did have a problem learning to resize photos, since the wider screen stretched out the photos and there was no adjustment for that in the monitor settings.\u00a0 I\u2019d think I was doing fine, then I\u2019d see a photo in Horizons Magazine that made someone way too tall and skinny.\u00a0 I\u2019d grumbled about it to myself for about a year until I just today realized: I can go back to my old monitor.\u00a0 I had forgotten that was an option.<\/p>\n
Somehow in the busy-ness of work, I\u2019d forgotten that I had a flat panel standard width monitor I could hook it up if I wanted to.\u00a0 Which I just did.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Everything looks smaller and narrower, but it looks on screen exactly as it will look on the printed page.\u00a0 All my photos look the right size and \u2026 well, I just can\u2019t believe I forgot for a year that this was an option.<\/p>\n
I wonder what all else is an option for me that I have either forgotten about, or just not considered for myself.\u00a0\u00a0 How about you?<\/p>\n
After Note<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 Ok, now I remember why I don\u2019t use this Dell monitor.\u00a0 I need something with better resolution and more advanced contrast settings. It worked fine on my old computer.\u00a0 Drat.\u00a0 Back to my Hanns G HW191 19\u201d wide screen monitor – I wish it had a setting to not use the entire width of the screen unless I wanted to\u2026\u00a0 whine, whine, whine\u2026<\/p>\n After: After Note:<\/em><\/strong> I have a new appreciation for my 19\u201d wide screen monitor which I just reconnected.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes you just need a little contrast to appreciate what you have.\u00a0 I love my wide screen monitor!<\/p>\n