colour

Which printer should I buy? review

Digital Living Hi, I'd like to buy an affordable, durable printer that can produce colour letterheads and borderless images to a good standard. If you're printing a large number of documents, we'd advise you to buy a colour laser printer.

Tags: colour, printing, wi fi, cable

22 June 2006, 16:58

How to perfect your pictures

Digital Living In addition to the standard Photoshop editing tools, Elements 3.0 also offers SmartFix options with before and after comparisons for operations such as red-eye removal, removing colour casts, and adjusting brightness.

9 May 2005, 15:51

How to build your own home theatre

Digital Living In fact, this is why colours seem so bright when you walk out of a dark room into daylight: your eyes have lost their colour reference and have to adjust. The backlighting will provide just enough light for your eyes to get their colour reference...

Tags: depth, paint, wall, benefits

27 June 2005, 12:18

Can camcorders take great stills?

Digital Living We'd recommend going for a camera that reproduces good colour, even if the resolution isn't so high. Camcorders that give good colour and low noise can provide scaled-down stills that have comparable image quality to a higher-resolution camera or...

Tags: megapixel, colour, noise, frame

21 November 2007, 14:15

How do I set up my TV properly?

Digital Living Colour settings are a whole different matter, and although you could calibrate them to be technically perfect, this won't meet everyone's tastes. With colour, you are better adjusting it until you're happy with the look of the picture.

22 August 2007, 17:32

Calibrate your LCD television

Digital Living Excessive brightness can result in a two-dimensional, washed-out look with reduced colour saturation. This is the standard colour temperature that most producers use when creating films and TV programmes.

9 May 2005, 16:14

Choose the right gear for high definition

Digital Living By varying the intensity of each colour, the display can produce the full range of colours. A colour wheel then rotates to match the colours with the corresponding action of the mirror, at a rate quick enough to be indistinguishable to the eye...

4 June 2007, 15:46

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living Most of the tasks a UMPC is most suited to -- writing, editing a diary, checking email -- do not significantly benefit from a colour display. It's bigger by a fair margin, and more importantly it runs in full colour.

27 July 2006, 17:39

Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living What colour iPod nano are you going to buy? Do you have an iPod yet? There are certain painful issues of identity and crisis bound up in the whole business of music. There's a painful line in Cameron Crowe's excellent film about rock and roll...

16 September 2006, 8:00

Mobile phones to upgrade your life

Digital Living The Chocolate has a 1.3-megapixel camera, colour screen and a glowing red heat- and touch-sensitive navigation pad. More importantly, it's not all looks and no brains, featuring a bright colour screen, a 3-megapixel camera, 3G connectivity, built...

28 November 2006, 16:06

Samsung YH-999

Digital Living It's finished in stylish anodised silver, and the 89mm (3.5-inch) colour screen is extremely generous for a pocket-sized product. The YH-999 is a world away from the clunky 'pocket'-sized TVs we were once lumbered with.

10 May 2005, 17:20

Access a webcam with a mobile phone

Digital Living The Pupillo works wirelessly and features full colour video and a built-in microphone. I'm interested in finding out what's the best way to set up a security camera at home that I can monitor with my mobile phone.

20 September 2006, 12:50

Spam TV, You TV, Global TV

Digital Living The pictures keep getting smaller: with sound, with colour, with television, with videos and DVDs, with portable DVD players and video players like those from Archos, Creative, and Thomson, video images become more unremarkable, more ubiquitous...

4 October 2005, 17:57

BT has seen the future, and it's white

Digital Living It's painfully true that everything we do reveals our self, and this is never more apparent than at staged technology events, where sets are dressed and artificial environments created to give colour and context to the technology on offer.

26 June 2006, 17:33

Looking for an underwater camera

Digital Living They are also popular with divers, so it's relatively easy to get accessories such as red filters (which improve the colour balance of your photographs by cutting out some of the blue light), spare o-rings and so on.

14 October 2005, 9:28