Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


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

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


kobaltkween posted Sat, 29 May 2010 at 6:51 PM

just a quick note to say cspear - that's not quite how it works.  Poser 8 does not do anything to your image.  the image itself is sRGB, because it is a digital image in that color space.  and all monitors are sRGB.  not all have specific defined sRGB space calibration, like, say, Adobe sRGB, but they're all sRGB.  there are no linear color space monitors.  and afaik,  there are no sRGB space renderers.  optics is hard enough with linear calculations, and it's much easier to just transform the result.

Wikipedia

Quote - LCDs, digital cameras, printers, and scanners all follow the sRGB standard. Devices which do not naturally follow sRGB (as was the case for older CRT monitors) include compensating circuitry or software so that, in the end, they also obey this standard. For this reason, one can generally assume, in the absence of embedded profiles or any other information, that any 8-bit-per-channel image file or any 8-bit-per-channel image API or device interface can be treated as being in the sRGB color space.