"mysdn" <kam### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> But when I want solid colors defined by rgb values, actual color rendered is too
> dark in comparison to what I see in Paint's color picker.

This is a Gamma problem: Paint shows you the actual values stored in the image
file, which are typically gamma-corrected for a display gamma of ~2.2, while
POV-Ray works with linear color values.

You need to gamma-"un-correct" the values from Paint before using them in
POV-Ray; the following code should do the job:

  color rgb <pow(R/255,GAMMA),pow(G/255,GAMMA),pow(B/255,GAMMA)>

Don't know by heart whether you need to use GAMMA=2.2 or GAMMA=1/2.2 though.

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