Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2009-08-25-14:27:20 Mark Rabiner: > Yea it went way yellow. > I have to figure out how to lower the gamma without it going why warm on > me. Or not. Regardless of what defaults Apple may or may not have been shipping with, as I understand it, pretty much everybody (working digital photographers included) gave up on a display gamma of 1.8 years ago. A target gamma of 2.2 corresponds far more closely to the intrinsic response of display hardware, and is the neighborhood in which nearly all the displays of people who'll be looking at your stuff on the web live. There's no need to wrench the gamma to a non-native bright-midband 1.8, then wrench it back when an image's profile is applied when you're working in a color-managed application. Join the late-20th and so far all of the 21st century and just adopt the standard od 2.2. If your display has been profiled properly, and the application you're using to look at images handles profiles (Photoshop, of course, and Firefox these days -- last I heard you couldn't count on Safari to handle colorspaces) you should get all your grays.