second issue. This might be an eternal disagreement, but at least let it be clear for the sake of it.

In image engineering, GC was "invented" to increase the brightness of images and movies to compensate for the darkening that occurs when these are just dumped on a newspaper sheet or on a TV screen, whithout additional correction. GC is embedded in formats for MPG and JPG for that reason, and it's still relevant for dumb devices (including Windows before the turn of the century)

For modern intelligent devices, images can be read correctly and are presented to the application in the proper way, even including embedded profiles. And images are displayed correctly, thanks to the mechanisms build into drivers and video cards. It's in the Mac for a long time and it's in Windows since XP (partially) and Vista.

You can check it yourself: save a colorful image in BMP and JPG format, use a dumb passive device to get them on your TV screen (great difference) and use your PC to show them on the monitor. Some programs will reveal minor differences (as they read JPG with the industry standard and ignore the embedded profile) and some programs - like Poser!! - do not.

From a device perspective, Poser can be considered linear, as long as GC is not applied.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

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