Relax. Please stop addressing the format of the discourse and just address the points.

Your image #2 and #3 have the same output in the body.

This contradicts what you've said, twice now.

Go check your work.

Set image gamma = 1 on both. Check it again in the texture manager dialog.

Then render and call that a name you can't confuse - like "ImgGamma=1 RndrGamma=22.jpg"

Compare that to the posted image #2.

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