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In article <40355f97$1@news.povray.org>,
"Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@) nolights.de> wrote:
> Well, for one, I can use BMP directly as wallpaper on my Windows OS.
And as I recall, Windows only accepts BMP files for this, right?
Stupid...Mac OS allows anything QuickTime can open: JPEG, PNG, GIF,
TIFF, etc.
> I don't
> need more than the 24bit it comes with, that's another. And, most of the
> time, the image gets converted to JPG anyway, either for posting on these
> very newsgroups that I've got open and running almost every hour my PC is
> running, or for my website. Only seldomly do I need other formats, like for
> a book publishing. And even then, 24bit was sufficient so far.
But the smaller file size isn't a benefit?
> But I've never really understood that gamma issue with PNGs... How exactly
> does it work, and how is it supposed to work? I've heard that it stores the
> gamma value it has been made with, and a viewing app would adjust the gamma
> to compensate for different screens, but does it really work?
That's what it does, and it does work...if the software displaying the
PNG handles the gamma value. I don't know how common that is...
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