Viewing This Site

The Photos

The images on this site have been sized for viewing on 1024 X 768 pixel or larger, 24-bit displays. Most systems now include monitors with higher monitor dimensions (resolutions). If your display's resolution is set to 800 X 600 pixels, you will have to scroll to see some of our content, especially the gallery pages and vertical images. Most of the images are small enough to load fairly quickly, even with a dial-up modem connection to the Internet. Naturally, a DSL, cable, or faster connection will make these pages load much more quickly and make viewing this site more enjoyable.

The "gallery" pages display a number of small thumbnail images. Each thumbnail is linked to a larger version of the image; click the thumbnail to see the larger version. To help the gallery pages load quickly, the number of thumbnails has been limited to a maximum of six per page. If there are more thumbnails in the image category, the gallery page will have a set of numbered links you can click to go to additional pages of thumbnails.

There is more about navigating the Lumen Perfectus site on the Help page.

Monitor Calibration

For best results you should adjust your monitor's brightness and contrast so each step from white to black in the 10 step wedge below is distinguishable from its neighbors. If your display properties are set to something less than True Color (32 bit) for Windows®, or Millions for Macintosh®, you will not be able to see all 10 of the steps in the wedge, and the photos on this site will not appear as they should. If necessary, open your Display control panel (on Windows computers) and make adjustments on the Settings tab to the Colors and Screen area sections. On the Macintosh, open the Displays preference pane and change the Color setting on the Display sheet. Then try adjusting your monitor's brightness and contrast.

If you'd like to dig a little deeper and do a better job, follow the instructions here.

This site is graphic intensive; it's a photography site, above all! If your browser's Show pictures or equivalent setting is unchecked, or if your browser is for some reason unable to display images, this site will have little meaning for you. The photographic images and some of the site's controls will be displayed as placeholders. We have not included alternate representations of any of the images.

Browser Issues

In mid-2008 we began a site redesign. The new pages are completely hand-coded using the wonderful open-source Smultron editor. These pages are "XHTML strict" compliant. Unfortunately, some browsers aren't, and with those our pages may not be displayed as we intended. We have tested the site on Windows with versions of Internet Explorer 6 through the latest. IE is notorious for ignoring Web standards or defining them in unusual ways; while it doesn't render our site perfectly, you should have no trouble viewing our photos.

We've found Firefox from version 2 onward, and Opera versions 6 and later display our site perfectly. With the now-defunct Netscape Navigator 6 and later, the images look fine and the controls work correctly. However, with older versions the appearance of some of the controls and their actions when the mouse pointer is moved over them can be a little odd. The navigation links and some of the page copy are not positioned properly. There may be other anomalies as well. These issues are due mainly to the site's use of cascading style sheets, which older browsers (and some newer ones!) generally do not handle well. None of these issues directly effect the photo pages.

Interestingly, we've found no problems with the Macintosh versions of Safari, Firefox, and Opera.

There is a limit to how much testing we can do and the number of browsers we can install for testing. We test with the most-used browsers, in their current versions. We don't have time for deeper testing, nor can we take time to test with "beta" versions of browsers. There is more about browser issues on our Help page.

We recommend using the latest version of your favorite browser, which you can download from the makers' Web sites.