Brightness of uploaded pics from GT4 to USB...

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If you go to this link , to me most pictures in their seem too dark. Also, whenever I upload a GT4 pic from my USB drive, it appears really really dark. As soon as I download the pics from the USB, I edit the pics by making them brighter but now I'm hearing complaints about it.

So my question is this:
Do the pictures uploaded to your USB from GT4 appear too dark after downloading them onto your computer?

You could see the pictures I brightened up (for use on my monitor) to test whether it's way too bright (meaning a problem on my computer) in that same link.
 
It means you need to up the exposure of your photos before saving them to your USB device. I am not sure as I don't have the game but I do know that the exposure is something some people forget about.
 
Do this:

Take a random pic with all camera settings zero'ed out, and stay at the save screen after you saved. Then, transfer it to your computer and open it so you can fine tune the brightness of your TV by looking at the pic.
 
I've noticed this as well. I upped the exposure and the pics came out OK, but the thing with that is, if you want to view them from your PS2 they'll be too bright on the TV. So, now, pics that I'm going to upload I just brighten them up in Microsoft Photo Editor.

I think the look of picture actually changes slightly as well if you up the exposure when taking them.

Pics I've upped the exposure on seem different to pics that I've brightened up manually after taking them.
 
set your exposure to 0.8 and will come out juuust the right amount of brightness (it will look very similar to that of 0 exposure on your TV)
 
I will do the exposure trick some but too much and the car looks fake and a night sky can look like daylight.

I have found that just a hint of exposure helps and they look great on my monitor. I even have them in my Picasa2 screensaver. However if I am at work and showing a couple of friends my gallery they look too dark on a few monitors even though the brightness is turned up all the way. Some even show just headlights and street lights.

I figure that if it looks good on my PC that is all that matters.

And I think that it is the PS2 not the TV that can cause a difference between the TV and the PC. I have my PS2 running through my monitor and it looks about five times better when I upload to the PC. Seeing as how my PC is six years old and the optical drives have quit working I doubt that it is the superior hardware in the PC causing the difference.
 
Ok i think there is an issue between the ps2's rendering system for a TV output compared to svga. Either adjust the exposure on the ps2 or adjust the contrast and brightness using a 3rd party app. Photoshop is your friend. The trick is uping the contrast so you dont wash everything out when you up the brightness.
 
bah i have decided to not use my paint shop pro 8 brighten and contrast any more

when you take a picture and its dark on the flash card, well alot of those darker colors are merged into fewer colors; and when you use a program to brighten it, it 1 wont come out nearly as detailed as it did on the tv and 2 well.. go back to 1, because you'll start seeing blocks of darker colors..

and if you raise the exposure to 0.8 in-game, it will come out just the way it did when you set it at 0 on the TV; by raising the exposure, it saves alot more colors and alot more detail (meaning more space.. but it beats looking at blocks)

go for 0.8 exposure rather than PC program
 
I had the same problem with my pictures, especially ones where a shadow was cast on a certain side of the car. I raised the color/contrast/brightness levels in a photo editor (as you can see below) but I've noticed like everyone else said to brighten the contrast when you take the photo originally and then edit from there, as opposed to starting with an exceptionally dark photo. The darker the photo, the harder the time I've had correcting the levels.

http://www.holdyourground.com/gt4/

edit: Also my home monitor is a CRT, which I've calibrated many times since taking photos in GT4 and the pictures are still fairly dark, but my work monitor is a LCD screen so they're super vivid on here no what. I suppose that applies to all crt/lcd situations.
 
SniperKil
what i do is open the pics in Picasa2, picasa is a free photo manager that rocks.. and i edit the pic in picasa and click on IM FEELING LUCKY.. it will auto fix the pic. .and makes it look much better in 95% of the situations
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I am loving Picasa2 right now. I saw them talking about it on G4TechTv's "The Screensavers" and went and downloaded it immediately. Aside from being free it is great for those who don't have the ability or money to use Photoshop. I also used the screensaver feature to set my GT4 pics as my screensaver.


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edit: Also my home monitor is a CRT, which I've calibrated many times since taking photos in GT4 and the pictures are still fairly dark, but my work monitor is a LCD screen so they're super vivid on here no what. I suppose that applies to all crt/lcd situations.
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I don't know about this being a factor. My home monitor is an 11-year-old CRT from Gateway2000 back when I bought my first 166mhz PC in high school and the images are still clear. At work I use a brand new Dell CRT and it works fine also, but the other day I was filling in for someone at their desk and pulled up my gallery to show it to a friend and they all looked extra dark. In some of the night pictures you could only see the headlighst of the cars. It was the same type of monitor as what is at my desk and I even turned the brightness and contrast all the way up but to no use.

I think that this might be something else that is beyond my reckoning. Oh well, as long as I can enjoy my pics that is all that matters.
 
foolkiller79
I am loving Picasa2 right now. I saw them talking about it on G4TechTv's "The Screensavers" and went and downloaded it immediately. Aside from being free it is great for those who don't have the ability or money to use Photoshop. I also used the screensaver feature to set my GT4 pics as my screensaver.
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yeah picasa is awesome.. i wish it could just use the folder from my thumbdrive as a dynamic folder instead of having to copy them to the harddrive first.. but whatever...

ive stopped using im feeling lucky as it had some weird color outcomes on some of my pics.. now a simple auto contrast seems to do the job great
 

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