POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : rgb vs srgb : Re: rgb vs srgb Server Time
29 Jun 2024 02:22:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: rgb vs srgb  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 25 Sep 2011 21:55:35
Message: <4e7fdb97$1@news.povray.org>
Grim Reaper wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tenDOTlnDOTretniATtoorgedDOTt> wrote:
>> So if only for that, this discussion has been quite useful! ;-)
>>
>> Thomas
> 
> Found this discussion really helpfull. Been wondering for years why POVRay
> output always looks so blown on the white side. Only thing, does anyone know how
> to do the same to an image map? Should you save the file with a linear RGB color
> profile? How would you do this?

Actually, if you use a file format such as PNG that is gamma aware
the results should already be correct in 3.7. For other file formats,
or to override this behavior, you can use the gamma keyword in the
image_map.


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