Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <38B53A18.9EA02466@my-dejanews.com>,
> gre### [at] my-dejanewscom wrote:
>
> > Could this just be the great gap between Mac and Wintel: they define
> > brightness per pixel differently and thus what looks good on Mac
> > won't look good on Wintel, no matter how much I tweak my monitor
> > settings.....
>
> The "standard" gamma on Macs is somewhere around 1.8, while PC's usually
> are in the area of 2.2. I think PNG format images contain gamma
> information, and if you use a reader which supports it, the display of
> the image will automatically be adjusted. I could easily be wrong
> though...

It really depends on the PC, though.

I think my last few have been around 1.8 (according to gamma.gif from
povray.org)

Perhaps using trinitron monitors has something to do with it.

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Huh! At least part of the problem is my newsreader.  I dl/ed Gail's image
and it looks just fine in a paint program. Go figure!

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <38B53A18.9EA02466@my-dejanews.com>,
> gre### [at] my-dejanewscom wrote:
>
> > Could this just be the great gap between Mac and Wintel: they define
> > brightness per pixel differently and thus what looks good on Mac
> > won't look good on Wintel, no matter how much I tweak my monitor
> > settings.....
>
> The "standard" gamma on Macs is somewhere around 1.8, while PC's usually
> are in the area of 2.2. I think PNG format images contain gamma
> information, and if you use a reader which supports it, the display of
> the image will automatically be adjusted. I could easily be wrong
> though...
>
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> Chris Huff
> e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
> Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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