"Rarius" <rar### [at] rariuscouk> wrote:
> I should have remembered the assumed_gamma issue before posting this... but
> on the other hand, why does this only cause a problem for the PNG output but
> not the BMP or TGA? And why does the render window look OK while the file
> doesn't?

Because PNG stores a gamma setting and certain viewers use it.  I usually
render in PNG and convert to JPG.  When I open the PNG in the basic Windows
Picture and Fax Viewer or Picasa, it is bright (ie uses the internal gamma
setting), but in Microsoft Photo Editor, it isn't (doesn't use the
setting).  I would suspect that the POV preview displays without the gamma.
 And remember, there are 2 gamma settings, Display_gamma in the ini and
assumed_gamma in the scene file.

Personally, I can never get it to work right (or at least the way I want it
to work)

-tgq

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