> On 2016 Apr 30, at 15:37 , Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to adjust an image, a .png file. What I want to do is a gamma 
> adjust, to lighten it.
> 
> In the past, I remember a program, I think it was called Core Image Fun 
> House, or something like that, for doing that sort of thing; but that program 
> is no longer around.
> 
> I did find some quartz composer transforms, including a gamma adjust, but 
> that opens in Quartz Composer, and that will not actually let me supply a 
> file to the transform. However, it tells me that I can use the transforms in 
> Photobooth or iPhoto. So, try photobooth -- but as far as I can tell, that 
> will only start with a camera picture, and I can't give it a file. So, try 
> iPhoto. And ... how in the heck are you expected to use iPhoto / what does it 
> actually do? In any event, I was able to drag the image in, apparently 
> putting a copy of it into the library, but then I could not actually apply 
> the quartz transforms.
> 
> But I did find, under Edit, sliders to adjust colors. I was able to get a 
> "good enough" version, and then tried to save it. Err, Export it.
> 
> But the exported was a copy of the original, without any of the edits.
> 
> I cannot believe that a simple "apply this quartz filter", or "apply this 
> color profile as an adjustment" (there is a lighten, and a darken, color 
> profile for simple gamma adjusts), is this hard to do -- what  simple tool am 
> I missing?

Graphic Converter from 
https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/image-editing-slideshow-browser-batch-conversion-metadata-and-more-on-your-mac/
 does this.
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