People creating images on a CM-aware system had to take into account that other people, viewing those image in an online gallery, did not have CM enabled on their box. So, they had to put the monitor/gamma-correction back in again before publishing. Like I apply a printer profile before sending our my images for print.

Fortunately, just publishing the image in JPG solved the issue thanks to the correction embedded in the JPG format. This is what JPG was all about: the issue gets solved before you're aware of it.

As a side effect, looking at JPG's or other formats having monitor compensation baked in, on a CM-aware system, provides double compensation for the same issue. And the more people use Vista or up to look at JPG's in the Rendo gallery, this side effect is becoming commonplace gradually. Something similar happens, when you allow PP2010 to put the non-linearities back into the rendered result, then you save it as JPG, and look at it on your Vista/Win7 (aka CM-aware) system. That's triple correction.

The side effect enables you to see more detail in the dark areas, than presented by a normal photocamera shot. But a camera is not the human eye. Our eyes are adaptive, pupils open up to get more detail when it's dark. And seeing details in the dark is something that eases our mind, and make us consider an image as "good". This is why no-one complains about it. Your images become even more real than photoreal. But be aware of the triple compensation that lures behind a corrected PP2010 output. Things can become too much.

That's all folks.

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