Is it Thumbsplus? Is it Adobe Photoshop 7? Or Windows XP? You can see the obvious in the image "gamma problem.jpg" the image was made by Photshop 7 and set for grey gamma 2.2, obviously what you see is RGB by the screen capture, the difference still shows properly. The working space is set the same for all three, XP, TP 5, and PS 7. So please tell me, which program is correct? I tend to lean towards TP 5 for the available detail in the lighter areas (exact problem). is this a problem that can be explained? Thank you, Alex

did you set the gamma with "Image > Adjustments > Gamma" ? because then i think the problem might be your photoshop's color settings (edit > color settings)...well problem... but just look at the difference between photoshop without color management, and photoshop with the photoshop 5 default spaces. i hope that helps stef

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Yes that worked! The same picture now looks like the one on the right (above). I try to follow this website, "AIM" from Finland, it is the total science of this kind of thing but much of it I cannot follow. However he says the Adobe (ACE) conversion engine is not nearly as good as the microsoft ICM one. So I use the adobe gamma program and apply the resulting settings to my monitors default ICM, at 9300 K. Not good? I suppose not. That 9300 K must be why the image was so bright. Any other interjections are quite welcome please. Thank you Stef, Alex

Dealing with this problem has been one on going headache for years and years. I'm a printer by trade, so I get thousands of photos from thousands of people...nobody has the same calibration on thier monitors....so here's what I do to the 8 computers in my shop, start with Windows / Mac set the color profile as Adobe 1998 .....now go to all your image editors and set color pref's as Adobe 1998 and then use Adobe Gamma to set gamma for your sys and be sure to include it in your sys. start up.