Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-13 Thread Bruce Robertson
Yep, but how to get two buttons (and a scroll wheel) on my new i-Book? Cash, check or charge all seem to work. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: OT Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:41 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I-Tunes is the 'BETAMAX' to the rest of the online Music 'VHS'. And those who invest in the 'beta' technology will end up not being able to use the scores of other hardware, software and media retail/online outlets for their music needs. While

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I think the hockey puck mouse must have been a cruel joke by some hardware designer at apple. FWIW the hockey puck design fit very nicely in the hands of little children. My friend has a couple of little kids and those mice work perfectly for them.

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I think the hockey puck mouse must have been a cruel joke by some hardware designer at apple. FWIW the hockey puck design fit very nicely in the hands of little children. My friend has a

RE: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Chipp Walters
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Rice Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 2:04 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property... On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Also, while setting the screenGamma to 2.2 on the Mac does solve

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Baxter
Alex Rice wrote On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: As fine as Macs are for creating print and video, last I heard, they only had a 3% marketshare for all computers. So, all those other computers are viewing on 'non-Mac' gamma settings. I'm with Richard and believe Apple should

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Jim Carwardine
Just a side bar comment on standards that is slightly off-topic. What Apple knows and what Apple does has unfortunately cost them many opportunities. For proof, visit this little web site... http://aurejac.dyndns.org/ Seventeen years is very nearly half the entire epoch of commercial computing.

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Martin Baxter wrote the best explanation of the Mac gamma I've read yet: Alex Rice wrote On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: As fine as Macs are for creating print and video, last I heard, they only had a 3% marketshare for all computers. So, all those other computers are

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-04 Thread Scott Rossi
On 1/4/04 10:57 AM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, if the problem of color correction is universal, why can't there be a universal solution? IMHO, I would say because of the hardware, or the way the hardware is manufactured. To be done well, color correction must be done on

RE: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Chipp Walters
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 12:06 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property... On 1/2/04 9:37 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the multiple graphic

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 12:38 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Dar, perhaps you can tell me what the internal gamma setting is for a Pshop PC generated PNG vs a PShop Mac generated PNG...my guess it they are the same, as I couldn't get a PNG and trans GIF to ever work correctly on my Mac

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 2, 2004, at 10:21 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: The following article provides one explanation as to what is going with PNGs. If the author's statements are valid, then apparently the problem with PNG display is universal. http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/png-gamma.html Still, this shouldn't

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 12:49 AM, Alex Rice wrote: With screenGamma of 1.7, then strangely the GIF and the PNG-with-gamma-value are the same color, and the BMP and PNG-without-gamma-value are another color. I'm not sure where the strangely applies. The first two make sense to me.

RE: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex, So save your PNGs without Gamma values, and set the screenGamma to 2.2, and you are good to go on Mac and Win. How do you save w/out Gamma in Photoshop? On the PC? Also, while setting the screenGamma to 2.2 on the Mac does solve the color matching problem, it creates an even larger

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: How do you save w/out Gamma in Photoshop? On the PC? Hmmm... I can't find it. ImageReady has Image menu | Adjustments | Gamma but I don't see an option for turning on or off Gamma values in the saved PNG. BTW Photoshop docs say use Gamma of 2.2

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 12:38 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Dar, perhaps you can tell me what the internal gamma setting is for a Pshop PC generated PNG vs a PShop Mac generated PNG...my guess it they are the same, as I couldn't get a PNG and trans GIF to ever work correctly on my Mac

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 3, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which raises the obvious question: When will Apple play nice and adopt the predominant standard? For graphics, print and video production Macs *are* the standard. FWIW SGIs also used a similar gamma- and they were used in graphics and video a

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Alex Rice wrote: I'm not sure, but from what I've read, it's not as simple as twiddling a decimal number for the gamma somewhere in the system defaults. http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/GammaFAQ.html I found note #16 here to be helpful in

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Dar Scott
On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 01:56 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Goal 1 A designer can make a stack from a great variety of images from a variety of sources and environments. Goal 2 If two colors among image colors or other colors display equal in one environment, they will display equal in every

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which raises the obvious question: When will Apple play nice and adopt the predominant standard? For graphics, print and video production Macs *are* the standard. Except, ironiclly, at Pixar, where they have more Linux

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Rossi
On 1/3/04 2:11 PM, Richard Gaskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference between me and a fair number of other Apple loyalists is recognizing that status quo is deadly in an environment of radical dynamic change like computing. As with living organisms, the only organizations that aren't

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In fact, I'm writing this on a Mac, as I have since 1987. i'm glad to see i'm not the only slow typer around here ;-) ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

RE: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Ken Ray
The one-button mouse is (soon) dead! Long live Apple! In fact, I'm using a Microsoft (gasp!) two-button Wheel Mouse Optical USB mouse on my Mac and have been using two-button mice with Mac development ever since OS 9 was released... the nice thing for me is that I can do things one-handed

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Yeah but look at your statement below. I would agree with you even that I am a preferred Mac user except you had to end the following statement with an attack with words. Your attack states that anyone who isn't like you can't see beyond Steve's last keynote. This appears to be very much an

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
I am using a wireless Logitech track ball with eight buttons. And now I can't even use a two button mouse let alone a one button mouse. And I can't use the tracpad at all. Using a button for command and control modifiers is the only way to go for me. :-) tom On Jan 3, 2004, at 7:25 PM, Ken

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Dar, You are correct, the original image in the demo stack was set at 128,128,128 but the one I sent you was different. I left the original one at work. Let me know if you'd like another 128,128,128 PNG from a PC and I'll fire you one. --Chipp On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex, On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Alex Rice wrote: On Jan 3, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Which raises the obvious question: When will Apple play nice and adopt the predominant standard? For graphics, print and video production Macs *are* the standard. FWIW SGIs also used a

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Yeah but look at your statement below. I would agree with you even that I am a preferred Mac user except you had to end the following statement with an attack with words. Your attack states that anyone who isn't like you can't see beyond Steve's last keynote.

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep, but how to get two buttons (and a scroll wheel) on my new i-Book? :-) Chipp On Jan 3, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote: The one-button mouse is (soon) dead! Long live Apple! In fact, I'm using a Microsoft (gasp!) two-button Wheel Mouse Optical USB mouse on my Mac and have been using

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Thomas J McGrath III
Richard, I didn't know you wrote the original thread. I was just reacting mid thread. Sorry. Thanks for your earnest reply. And I agree with you 100% as well. Tom On Jan 3, 2004, at 11:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thomas J McGrath III wrote: Yeah but look at your statement below. I would

OT Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, Well said. I enjoyed reading the article as well. In fact, it echos something I've been talking about for awhile. I-Tunes is the 'BETAMAX' to the rest of the online Music 'VHS'. And those who invest in the 'beta' technology will end up not being able to use the scores of other

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/3/04 10:21 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Yep, but how to get two buttons (and a scroll wheel) on my new i-Book? No sweat. Go to any computer store and look at Windows USB mice. Virtually all of them will work without any special Mac driver (the system driver does fine.) If you want more

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 3, 2004, at 3:11 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Except, ironiclly, at Pixar, where they have more Linux machines than Macs. http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/10/28/pixarosx/index.php? redirect= 1073135312000 Pixar, WETA digital, and the like, are an exception because the Unix/Linux

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-03 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 3, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: As fine as Macs are for creating print and video, last I heard, they only had a 3% marketshare for all computers. So, all those other computers are viewing on 'non-Mac' gamma settings. I'm with Richard and believe Apple should consider adopting

Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi all, I ended up getting an iBook over the holidays to do some cross-platform development. Been awhile since I've used Macs for any length of time (they sure have changed;-0) Anyway, I spent a few hours today trying to track down a color issue and here's what I found out: If you are like me,

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 2, 2004, at 4:51 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: open stack URL http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/GammaTest.rev; Instead of adjust the screenGamma property to match what the PNG expects. as the TD says, is it possible to adjust the PNG data's gamma setting on the fly, and not touch the

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 05:10 PM, Alex Rice wrote: Instead of adjust the screenGamma property to match what the PNG expects. as the TD says, is it possible to adjust the PNG data's gamma setting on the fly, and not touch the screenGamma property? Not knowing about the PNG format much, I

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex, Don't know about if it's possible to change the gamma for the PNG. Even if it were possible, it would probably end up creating even more 'washed out' images on Macs or 'too dark' images on PC. Yep, I tried the put img x into img y and it rarely worked...so I just flipped a card. Didn't

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 04:51 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I've created a stack to demonstrate the issue, and offer some solutions on how to best solve it. Just type into your msg box and hit return: open stack URL http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/GammaTest.rev; Please let me know

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Alex Rice
On Jan 2, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Alex, Don't know about if it's possible to change the gamma for the PNG. Even if it were possible, it would probably end up creating even more 'washed out' images on Macs or 'too dark' images on PC. Not sure... my overly simplistic

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Dar Scott
I'm called to supper. I'll send what I have on the PNG. I'll have to calculate the gamma from the value field later. Unless someone else does it or has a better tool. Note that the value from text is not the same as the value from export. Maybe one is the one set and the other is

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Scott Rossi
On 1/2/04 3:51 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ended up getting an iBook over the holidays to do some cross-platform development. Been awhile since I've used Macs for any length of time (they sure have changed;-0) Anyway, I spent a few hours today trying to track down a color

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Scott Rossi
Don't know about if it's possible to change the gamma for the PNG. Even if it were possible, it would probably end up creating even more 'washed out' images on Macs or 'too dark' images on PC. The following article provides one explanation as to what is going with PNGs. If the author's

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 10:21 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: In addition to the multiple graphic formats that we can employ, users will rarely have the opportunity to directly compare the appearance of a Mac stack with a Windows stack. But his problem is a gif next to a png. Also, he has control

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Scott Rossi
On 1/2/04 9:37 PM, Dar Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the multiple graphic formats that we can employ, users will rarely have the opportunity to directly compare the appearance of a Mac stack with a Windows stack. But his problem is a gif next to a png. In case you missed

Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

2004-01-02 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: But his problem is a gif next to a png. In case you missed it, I was responding to Chipp's statement about the appearance of his images: Don't know about if it's possible to change the gamma for the PNG. Even if it were possible, it