Greg M. Johnson wrote:

>Yes, but:
>
>1) it talks about turning up the monitor all the way up for contrast and
>brightness to determine the gamma: is this the way you run all day long?
>If I turn it down, I get a different number...
>2) what number is the industry standard.
>
>Thanks, I think you directed me to those pages months ago, but I'm still
>lost.  I think that gamma is a weak function of one's monitor's build
>and a strong function of the numbers one chooses.
>
>I think I have a problem which will be solved by getting a correct
>gamma. The problem is that a lot of work from other people looks
>crappily dark to me, and my own work looks crappily dark when printed. 
>Some winning IRTC entries look supercool and superphotorealistic, but
>just WAY too dark. One example is Gail Shaw's 2/16/00 p.b.i offering.  
>I think that if I somehow adopted the right gamma,  all these entries
>that other people like would look nice to me, maybe I'd even get better
>prints of my own work! 
>
>Educate me!

Maybe the gamma-faq can help you better.
http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/Poynton-color.html

I set the contrast once and adjust the brightness according to the 
intensity of the room illumination.

Dark, or overly bright pictures, do not mean that your gamma is wrong. Its 
just that the pictures gamma is not the same as your monitors, or printers. 

I don't think it is possible (with Windows) to change the gamma of your 
system, its determined by the graphics card and monitor, as explained in 
the pov documentation under "Monitor Gamma".

That is for me the reason to not view pictures in my newsreader, but use 
Irfanview. Always just one shortcut away from the gamma control slider.


Ingo

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