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What can I do if images in Starry Night look too dark or bleached out?

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If your Starry Night display appears too dark, you should adjust you monitors gamma value. Gamma correction controls the overall brightness of an image. Images that are not properly corrected can look either bleached out, or too dark. A gamma value of 1.6-1.8 seems to give good results.

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