Most Toshiba netbooks include keyboard shortcuts to adjust the brightness but lack similar shortcuts to adjust the contrast. Altering the contrast can be central to improving visibility, particularly ...

Here's the problem. I'm rather picky about the way I adjust my monitor, and I want the color to look good, so I get a gamma calibration image like this:<BR> View ...

Let's look at the toolset Final Cut Pro X provides to accomplish that. Figure 6 (below) shows the color controls. To turn the Inspector on or off, click the clip in the timeline, click the Inspector ...

Unfortunately, the face, is still too dark, and most of the pixels are well below 60 IRE. How do we address that? We attack it with the Gamma Correction effect (Figure 11, below). What does gamma do?