Well first, new to the forums and looking to post some work and be a part of the community but have a few problems I just can’t get around. Hopefully someone can give me an idea where i’m going wrong. Problem is this. I’ll finish my work, save to jpeg at the highest quality and go to post it up. When I look at my work on a member website it still looks great just as it did while i was working on it. If I view it through another computer, it looks terrible. For some reason the brightness has been increased and contrast decreased dramatically. In shadow to flat black areas individual strokes are now visible. When I view the pics on my Zune (yes, i’m one of the people who bought one), the images appear poor on there as well. So to sum up, appear fine on my system, increased brightness and decreased contrast anywhere else. I’ve searched forums, read instructions, changed any settings that i thought might work but am still in the same predicament. I’m not a pro so don’t want to have to invest in screen optimization equipment unless i can be sure it’s a display calibration issue. I’ve used the nvidia calibration utility but end up with an overall monitor image that is not pleasing. Alright, so thanks for reading the long post and here’s to hoping someone can give me a clue of what to do.
Brightness/Contrast Issues! Please Help!
Either the other monitor is not calibrated (or crap), or yours is not calibrated (or crap), or they are both not calibrated (or both crap but different shades of crap) or any numbers of variations on the above 
I don’t know what to suggest other than what you’ve already concluded. It can’t be a colour management issue if your images display OK in different apps on your own equipment (although to be 100% sure check you’re using the same browser on both). Basically you need to calibrate your monitor as accurately as possible, and to your satisfaction, and forget what it looks like on other monitors. Try a few more free tools and sites as you’ll likely get different results from each.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that your monitor is poor quality, however, as cheap monitors often lack contrast and try to make up for it with brightness, thus causing the effect you mention. When I look at my stuff at on the £150 cheapo monitors at work it looks hideous (more so than normal) because all the rich darks are nasty desaturated greys and purples and brush-strokes that look acceptable on my monitor look washed-out and scratchy.
Can’t help you with colour, but you can these links may help you to calibrate your monitors brightness/contrast via your nvidia driver. Adjust the setting till you can see as much of the tonal range as you can (depends on your monitor how well you can adjust it). It’s not a perfect way of calibrating, but better than nothing.
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/viewing.html
http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php
Thanks for the input all around. I don’t think it’s the monitor, least i hope not since i just bought it (HP 2009m) with nvidia 9800. Gonna see what happens when I burn the images to disc and view in another computer. Don’t know what that will prove, but I’ll check it out. I’m gonna post up a pic to give an example of the problem. Maybe it’s just inexperience with the digital process and painter in general. Thanks again!
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