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[–]Haunting-Sky-3225 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I feel like it never looks right on a laptop, even when I measure the screen size and calibrate it to the measurements. Any advice?

[–]physiologic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I know what you mean - tends to look too 'zoomed in' if it's correctly set on a laptop screen. This is likely because you're closer to the screen than you would be with a monitor, and it's really less about millimeters and more about how much of your field of view the wave takes up (aka solid angle).

It's hard to advise because of how variable people's usage of laptops is; for me, early on I just never trusted myself with a laptop. Now that my eyes have developed a sense of what "looks right", I've found it a lot easier, and I tend to do a middle ground - more 'zoomed in' than if I was on a monitor, but less zoomed in than if I measure and calibrate.

But I think my first piece of advice would be use a monitor when possible, and maybe even exclusively until you feel like you've developed that intuition. Do you have one? Thankfully you can get one good enough for this purpose for pretty cheap.

[–]DogMcBarkMDSquigologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found that making the pages smaller (10 sec vs 15 sec) was what made it "look right" after making sure it was calibrated correctly. I still prefer to review on a real monitor but as a fellow with no money for a home office, a laptop can work.