Quote - Poser's gamma correction is the simplified version, so it isn't even accurate sRGB conversion, technically. GC 2.2 and sRGB are only slightly different in bright colors, but very different in very dark colors.

Indeed, but any kind of GC is welcome; I discovered that, on my system, GC at 1.6 produced the most pleasing results. For some reason I feel that post-work on basics like levels, curves and colour balance is cheating - not because it's an easy way out, but that, like taking a photograph, it should be as right as possible out-of-the-box.

Linear output is exactly what's needed for the purposes of creating sample data for producing a color profile: that would be compared with the target values (which I can't get into Poser, yet) and the resulting profile used to apply gamma correction and gamut compression.

Well, I have a busy weekend lined up so I don't know if I'll be able to spend much time on this, but I need to look into your artistic lens (is that the same one for looking through walls?) to see what that can do.

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