Quote - > Quote - I expect this is what we'd get from Poser Pro 2010. But since I know how to hack P7 and P8 to do GC, it's not a problem. I'll remember to do this from now on.

whait a minute. what about tone mapping? 

The response curve produced by tone mapping is different from the GC curve. They have some similar characteristics but they're not the same.

By analogy, if you were to go into Photoshop "Levels" and set the midpoint at 40% versus 30%, you get similar but different response curves.

Tone mapping does increase the luminance of dark colors. But the luminance of the darkest 20% are not increased enough by tone mapping. No exponent value you choose will ever produce the same brightening as GC does.

So we basically have the same problem as ever - we are forced to add more light to bring the apparent illumination to something closer to correct. At least, however, tone mapping doesn't blow the highlights. It can't - it can never produce a luminance of 1.0 or higher.

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