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28 Sep 2024 17:13:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Here be monsters...  
From: Stephen
Date: 30 Jan 2016 10:23:12
Message: <56acd560$1@news.povray.org>
On 1/30/2016 8:03 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 29-1-2016 22:53, Mike Horvath wrote:
>> On 1/29/2016 12:28 PM, Simon J. Cambridge wrote:
>>>> I have to agree that your works are diverse, fitting a central theme.
>>>> I'm not sure I like the textures you are using though. They look too
>>>> washed out and faded. Could it be a gamma issue maybe?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Any image in particular? I tended to vary just about everything when
>>> rendering.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>
>> Most of the images I looked at appear kind of pastel or washed out. Are
>> you developing on a Mac?
>>
>>
>
> Not for me, on my lcd screen. Textures appear to be as intended.
>
>

For me they do a bit. A technique I used to do when looking at your 
entries for Tena Chep, was to copy them into Paint Shop Pro and reduce 
the gamma. Doing that for Simon’s images gives a more pleasing* image to 
my eyes. I reduce the gamma from 1 to 0.8

*Not that they are not pleasing as they are.


-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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