Advantages of Widescreen Monitors
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Look at almost any recent monitor buying guide for any use and you will see a whole lot of wide and ultra-wide monitor panel types among the top choices. What we have found as some of the best monitors for photo editing are widescreen curved monitors.
For our monitor buying guide, we’ll explain why a monitor for photography should have certain features and capabilities, what they do for your photography and videography editing. After all, if you’re going to upgrade from the built-in laptop monitor of your new computer, you want to make sure you get the best bang for your bucks.
Immersive Viewing
One of the first things you will notice with a widescreen monitor for photography is the difference in how you view the images and videos. It isn’t just because the screen is wider that the viewing is immersive, though that’s a big part of it.
Especially if you have the monitor mounted at or around eye level, the wider view makes you feel more like you’re actually there as you see the image or play the footage. Everything feels more natural and intuitive photographically for you as well.
To maximize this benefit, the newest monitor panel types, curved screen monitors, give you an incredible and undistorted version of your work. ViewSonic monitors such as the 38” ultra-wide curved screen VP3881 allow for an almost completely immersive view when mounted at a good height and adjusted properly.
Color, brightness, and contrast adjustments are important in order to take advantage of all the benefits of larger monitor panel types. ViewSonic monitors have the capability to resolve over 4.39 trillion colors, so those seemingly minor setup adjustments are fairly important.
Simplify Workflow
Monitor buying guides always mention this about simplifying workflow, but just what does that mean? Well, a wider monitor like the ViewSonic monitors VP3881 and VP3481 and others don’t merely have a larger screen area but they also have a wider aspect ratio.
What this means for our photography and videography workflow is that we can tile two or more programs at once on the monitor. That way, we’re only moving our eyes instead of clicking through multiple screens.
In some programs, tiling also allows for two or more different operations of the program to be viewed simultaneously, simplifying our editing workflow even more. It’s an important function and a beneficial feature of the wider monitor panel types.
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Better View of Details
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Being bigger or tiled isn’t the only consideration in our monitor buying guide. We also want our larger, wider, more immersive view of the images or footage to be as sharp as possible. That way, we can see important details of resolution, contrast, color, and even composition or possible distractions as we’re editing.
This is also true of our running multiple programs or operations of the same program as tiled views. The control panels and adjustment layer options and other operations are easier to see and see when the screen resolution is nice and sharp in addition to being large.
Reduced Eye Strain
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Eye strain is a big concern for anyone working on computer monitors for hours at a time. Reducing eye strain comes from having a better view on the monitor. If you’re squinting at the monitor, you either have to adjust your eyeglass prescription or you need to adjust the sharpness, contrast, and color of your monitor for photography.
An ultra-wide, wide aspect ratio, curved screen, high resolution monitor should provide an immersive viewing experience and cause no eye strain. Which is why I keep talking about adjusting your monitor properly. If we pay for the upgrades, let’s make sure we’re the best use of it.
My Editing Studio Upgrade
For my editing studio upgrade, I decided to use my own research for monitor buying guides to build a great one at a very reasonable price. I went for a dual monitor setup since I also make a lot of educational videos.
My monitor choices were the ViewSonic monitors VP3881 38” curved monitor and it’s slightly smaller sibling, the 34” curved screen VP3481 monitor. The simplified workflow, increased quality, and immersive view have really benefited me with advantages.
Any choice of monitor upgrade will also benefit your work. Check out our other monitor buying guides for more information about monitors for photography and videography.
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