Paint Shop Pro’s monitor gamma setting adjusts how colors display in Paint Shop Pro. This setting does not affect how your monitor displays colors in other applications. Before you adjust the monitor gamma, you should calibrate your monitor, see Calibrating Your Monitor.
Most users should not adjust the monitor gamma setting. If you make color corrections after you change the monitor gamma, the colors may look distorted on other monitors or in applications other than Paint Shop Pro.
Note about Color Management: If you enable Windows Color Management, Paint Shop Pro ignores the monitor gamma preference setting.
To adjust the monitor gamma:
Choose File > Preferences > Monitor Gamma to open the Monitor Gamma Adjustment dialog.
Lean away from your monitor and look at the red, green, blue, and grey rectangles. Each color contains an inner, solid color rectangle and outer, patterned rectangles. On a correctly adjusted monitor, the inner rectangles are difficult to distinguish from the outer rectangles.
Do one of the following:
To adjust the red, green, and blue values in unison, mark the Link channels check box.
To adjust the values individually, clear the Link channels check box.
For each color (or for all colors if they are linked), drag the slider until the inner rectangle seems to blend into the outer rectangle.
Note: If you have difficulty getting the inner rectangle to blend into the outer rectangle, your monitor may be too old and faded.
Click OK.
Note: Click Reset to return no gamma adjustment (1.00).
Setting General Program Preferences
Resetting Application Preferences
Setting File Format Associations
Setting File Format Preferences
Customizing Toolbars and Menus