Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What's the big deal with gamma correction?

inklaire opened this issue on May 23, 2010 · 242 posts


cspear posted Sat, 29 May 2010 at 9:01 AM

 I've been following this thread closely over the past few days, and I've read a lot of stuff that's useful and interesting, a good deal of stuff that's not quite right, and some stuff that's completely wrong. Gamma Correction is really quite easy to understand, but explaining it to other people is quite difficult (I'm trying to write a short thing about Gamma and GC in Poser, currently on about my 10th edit).

If you don't understand what "gamma" is, and what gamma correction does, I don't think you should be using it. When you get results you don't expect, you won't have a clue why.

Also, GC in Poser in anything other than PoserPro is a pain to set up. Yes, you can do it using the many techniques discussed in this and other threads on the subject, but you need to know what you're doing and why. Adopting a gamma-corrected workflow just because someone says you should is crazy. You will only produce better work with GC if you understand it.


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