I've noticed this problem as well..
I am on a mac and when people view things like
http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/114854/midnight-rendezvous.html
I get comments like its too dark and the like. Yet on my monitor its way brighter almost to the point where I dont feel its a night scene anymore.

I use a product called Eye-One Display2 monitor calibrator every month because of the color corrections I have to do for work.

So in the aboves case, I actually made another file that was brighter just for those with darker monitors. and linked it in the authors notes.

I've also gone ahead and made a curve that I can apply to my works to brighten them as well. But I too would love to see a real solution that I can apply to make everyone happy.

its near impossible unless everyone simulateously scraps there monitors and all buy the same specification flat screens...or all buy colour/gama calibrators....

but even then the problem is not solved, as different territories have different pre press settings for print, i.e, the pro's here at psc, can vary slightly depending on where they do their work.

of course we can all decide on a setting variable..... but then you have problems between TFT, Flatscree, LCD and CRT monitors, which all do the do differently.

...which, I assume means that in your Photoshop Color settings the RGB Working space is Adobe RGB (1998). If you save your RGB jpg file with the Adobe RGB profile embedded (by default) and open the jpg in a software that does not support color profiles (i.e. web browser which is sRGB by design) your image will look different, because of the different way different RGB profiles represent the numerical values for each pixel. See side by side comparison

true true Voks, good point.... the true conclusion is then, we are all screwed

I also had a weird experience some time ago when upgrading the NVidia drivers - it installed by default some monitor profiles that made the images in Photoshop (not other viewers including browsers) look like they were seriously bleached (i.e. if I did something that looked OK in PS it would look very dark elsewhere.) I guess it was too many programs trying to handle Color Management. I had to recalibrate the monitor with a colorimeter to make it go away.

ooooooooh that happened to me, they all look like the gamma is waaaay up high and its all washede out, this happen in 2002 to me, just uninstalled the drivers and waited for next update... all went fine after that... very bizarre

GAMMA BAD!



BEER GOOD!