to RobinsVeil (posts crossing when writing the previous one)

I agree, we even don't need Poser in the first place ;-), but I just like to understand what's going on and like to grasp why Bagginsbill took his very firm position on PP2010, the GC-feature, photorealism and not-needing P7 or up when you were not into this.

I understand it now, and I can see his point.

To my knowledge there is no gamma distortion in JPG by definition, but Photoshop (and cameras?) can add profile info (say sRGB) into the file to tell which was used to view the result. Note that hand-painting and scanning produce linear color info right from the start.

When you use something different (say Adobe RGB, or a device specific one as in my case) some software (eg Photoshop) tries to compensate for the difference to make me see the same thing as you were when making the image. It's some attempt to have the experience and workflow of a calibrated environment, but without the need of calibration itself.

And perhaps PP2010 uses this info for linearizing the colors before rendering, because that's what's required indeed. But I would be surprized, as lots of processes loose this extra info on the way.

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