Vibrant colors in fonts on GW?

When browsing some auctions I came across a few different images like this:


at first I didn't care, but I noticed how vibrant the text was in comparison to:


Is there a setting which makes colors this vibrant? I have been trying to find it but no matter what settings I change the text remains relatively the same. Is it a texmod or something?

i think it has to do with the graphics,never noticed...

Gamma need adjustment.

heres a Gamma Adjuster, I never use it before, you probably want to read more about how to use it before attempitng it. (I use something else)

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Actually before you do any of those, try to adjust your monitor's light/dark and contrast first. start with the simple one, I always forgot :P

Neither are original images, first is a png, second is a jpg, both have been through some graphics program to save out.

i noticed that to0... but then i thought: wh0 cares anyway..?

It wouldn't be caused by adjusting the brightness on your monitor, its saved that way.

I suppose it could easily be the difference of .png to .jpg, but any time I have done work in either format the color differences are no where near that significant.

I have see the above vibrant colors and another set of pictures with more defined text (no where near as blurry as the default text), so I figured it had something to do with a texmod package, yet I couldn't find it.

You're not talking about text in the game though. You are simply talking about the brightness of text in screen caps from various people. These various people would have different gamma levels, different graphics cards, different graphics editing programs (with different levels of .jpg compression), etc. This would easily result in the variations in text colour/brightness that you see.

Btw, gamma affects the "brightness/contrast" of the image coming from the graphics card itself (and the screen caps) - it's not the same as simply adjusting the brightness of the monitor. In fact, the most likely reason for the difference in your original samples is that the first one has a higher gamma setting than the second.

i, like quaker suggested, also thinks this is a case of 2 different gamma levels.

Probably,
or the other screenshot is made on a mac, they differ in "non-safe" colors.

Gamma levels and image compression. JPG (especially low-quality) tends to "blur" the edges between different colors, such as the edge between letters and the black background, so the letters come out looking grayer.