Anybody use two computer monitors simultaneously?

Hi all....

We use a dual screen set up on some of our PC's and Macs at work.
Three of them have dual 22inch LCD displays....very nice!

PC's have a dual outlet video card, and yes the macs are much easier, particulalry
the newer G4's etc.

Dean

FJBrad said:

Mrmaver said:

Heres the dumb question of the day!
Do you need a mouse for each monitor? or will one do the trick?

Mike V
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Hi Mike,
It's just as if you had one very wide monitor.The cursor just slips
past the edge of one into the other. The resolution and monitor
settings of the displays are still seperate.
A must have for image editing, and very inexpensive and easy to
setup. You don't need much of a monitor for your second one that
holds tools and pallettes.
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Todd Art said:

that I had onboard video (the cable came from my motherboard to the
VGA jack). I then added a video PCI card. Plug a monitor into
each. Go to the desktop, right click, go to the tab on the right
(Settings?), click the shadowed monitor 2, click "extend my desktop
to this monitor", that should do it!

I'm sitting at an airport computer terminal right now, so I can't
double check everything right now.
--
Todd Muskopf
professional fine art painter, wannabe photographer
http://www.muskopf.org

To all of those who I offend, please forgive me.

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Thanks a bunch for the clarification, especially given your current whereabouts : )

Appreciate the time your took to help out. Have a safe trip. Hope you're bringing your camera with you and will have the time to use it!

Best,

-pb

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-patrick byrne
-newburyport, ma
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i've tried not to think of it, we're probably all doomed in that case, eh?

midnight2, cp7 7 5, 4 5 0 0, Portland, Or.

FJ

Would love dual setup as well, but didn't do quite enough
research before buying new emac. While you can add a
second monitor it will only act as a clone! What would be
the point.

Later,
Bob

You betcha! I'm using 2x 19" for about 2 years now and will never go back to single again. It's just soo practical.

Some pointers:

• watch out with NT4.0 and especially Win2000. They have some issues with dual display setups (I think only Matrox hardware knows how to handle them well). Win98/ME/XP are fine.
• a video card that is fast with one display need not be equally fast with too. In the only test I ever found on the subject (which was quite recent, like three or four months ago), all recent Matrox, Nvidia and Ati cards were reasonably DualHead enabled, but Ati performance dropped to a dismal level when a 2nd monitor was attached.
• Matrox is still the king in this field, especially for Photo/Video work, because of their high 2d image quality. With their recentl launch of two more affordable cards than the Parhelia (which I currently have btw) there IMHO is no reason to buy anything different, unless gaming is your systems top priority.

marek k said:

marek k wrote:

Larry Berman wrote:

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Marek

I'm assuming you're the Marek who's based in Melbourne most of the time.

Presuming that you are, just go to one of the larger Computer Swapmeets (held every Sunday), say Camberwell, Box Hill or Malvern to name just three, and you'll usually be able to pick up a nice graphics tablet at a very good price.

Chris L
Melbourne, Oz

marek k said:

Oh yeah did I mention that the only thing it does well is to
oversaturate colors like any good sony or canon digicam?

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An interesting comment coming from one who recently advised Ching-Kuang Shene that "lowering saturaiton would solve rthe problem" he was having with his 5700 and too red sunsets.

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Brian,

That comment was definately tongue in cheek. And I think you would have problems convincing many people that nikon's give more saturated colors in native settings out of camera.

With the sunset shots, there are two issues there. Red tends to oversaturate more quickly on all cameras (asfaik) and its a specific problem where you are taking fast shutter speed images of something that is rather bright and saturated in nature.

Brian G. said:

marek k said:

Oh yeah did I mention that the only thing it does well is to
oversaturate colors like any good sony or canon digicam?

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An interesting comment coming from one who recently advised
Ching-Kuang Shene that "lowering saturaiton would solve rthe
problem" he was having with his 5700 and too red sunsets.

--
Brian
Gallery:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/spiritmist/My%20Web%20Gallery/index.htm

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-marek

Some of my photographs can be found under the following links:
http://www.pbase.com/mkrol/
http://www.usefilm.com/browse.php?mode=port&data=14298
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~okocim/photos/

Chris,

I know the swapmeets - half of my pc was born there the other at MSY in Malvern ;P

However I may find it expensive to do so at the moment as I would need to purchase a plane ticket that costs approx 2000$AUD. (Im living in Warsaw atm). However help is at hand... theres an even bigger swap meet here every sunday, and to boot its next door to the photographic swap meet.

I was wondering how he found its use, Ive heard a few good thjings about them, though Im not sure my workflow necessitates one. Other than burning / dodging most of my workflow uses curves etc. Though it would be very nice for selecting areas... no more use the mouse to follow edges.

Chris Lewan said:

Chris Lewan said:

marek k wrote:

Larry Berman wrote:

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Marek

I'm assuming you're the Marek who's based in Melbourne most of the
time.

Presuming that you are, just go to one of the larger Computer
Swapmeets (held every Sunday), say Camberwell, Box Hill or Malvern
to name just three, and you'll usually be able to pick up a nice
graphics tablet at a very good price.

Chris L
Melbourne, Oz

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--
-marek

Some of my photographs can be found under the following links:
http://www.pbase.com/mkrol/
http://www.usefilm.com/browse.php?mode=port&data=14298
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~okocim/photos/

Mike V
FCAS Charter Member
CP5700 and all the goodies
http://www.pbase.com/mrmaver/root
Life is only as good as the pictures taken.

I just got back. Yes, my camera was with me and hopefully I'll have something to post in the next few days. I've got over 3000 MB of photos on my Tripper waiting to be downloaded. I'll get to that tomorrow, as it's 1 a.m. here.
--
Todd Muskopf
professional fine art painter, wannabe photographer
http://www.muskopf.org

To all of those who I offend, please forgive me.