On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:35:27 -0800, Patrick White wrote: > One of these days, some bright person will get around to designing a > popular image encoding format that stores the image data and the gamma that > that data was encoded with.
TIFF can do that, but very few TIFF writers put gamma data in. Probably since there's no way to get it programmatically on a PC (there may be on a Mac or other platforms) that stands any reasonable chance of accuracy. > Then machines that know they use a different > gamma can adjust the pixel values to give a close approximation of what the > original image was supposed to look like. I believe that Photoshop will attempt to match the gamma curve of your monitor or printer with that of a TIFF image (that includes gamma information). TTYL, DougF - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
