> Note of doom 1: chances are, the source image will probably be
> converted from a PNG to a JPEG by a news server or blog site.
> Doing that will either adjust it for a 2.2 display or drop the
> gamma altogether, leaving it suitable only for the creator's
> display.  To test this, I have attached a POV render of the
> following scene.  The image gamma is an obscene 30, which has
> caused all the 128/255 colour values to be elevated to 249/255.
> When viewed in a gamma-aware viewer, the "outside" three squares
> are much darker than the inside three, and the bottom right
> quadrant is more orange than yellow.

Rather amusingly, Outlook Express displays it as intended, and PaintShopPro 
screws it up :-)

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