New LCD Monitor Looks Bad 1

[osika]

Hi, today I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 225BW widescreen monitor. I hooked it up to my Dell Workstation running windows xp professional. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9800 Series with 1 DVI and 1 Analog port. The card is inserted into an AGP slot and has 256mb DDR Memory.

I have tried hooking my monitor up to both analog and digital ports. The desktop looks fine, simple graphics look good, but when I bring up a photograph, it looks terrible. Green edges around figures.

I have the resolution set to 1280 x 768 and highest color quality at 32-bit. Any idea what's gone wrong. I bought it off the shelf at Best Buy, so I saw it there and images looked fine.

Thanks very much for your help.

Ryan

 

[osika]

Yeah, I'm sure the photos I'm looking at are high quality. I've seen how nice the skin tones look, even on my old CRT, so I'm guessing that it must be the LCD monitor that's causing the problems. Thanks everyone for your help. I'm going to return the monitor today. I'll let you know if a new one gives me the same problem.

Thanks!

 

[osika]

Okay, so I give up. The monitor went back to Best Buy. Now, I'm interested in doing a little more research before buying again. I'm looking for an LCD monitor that I can do graphics and editing on, so the image quality needs to be high. Any thoughts? Thanks again for all your help.

Ryan