Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> >What people are
> screwing up is that they are setting the gamma to something that has
> *nothing* to do with their displays actual gamma, so when they load it
> one something else, it looks wrong. In the case of programs that
> correctly handle the setting in the file, *they* are assuming the 'real'
> gamma is different that your monitor and are dropping or increasing the
> image colors to 'match' what they 'think' your display uses, which is by
> default 1.0, not 2.2.
> --

I have to admit that I didn't know monitors (all of them?) have a default
gamma of 1. This raises a basic question. What is meant by a "gamma of 1.8"
for the Mac and a "gamma of 2.2" for the PC? These are values that I've
always taken as gospel.

Ken

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