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

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Sun Jan 4 07:59:21 EST 2004


You're correct. JPG's (and GIF's) aren't affected by screenGamma, and work
well on both platforms. It's the PNG's that are affected. I've been using
JPG's as 'background images' when I need an animated GIF overlaid on top of
them.

-Chipp

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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Alex Rice
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> Subject: Re: Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...
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> On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:
> > Also, while setting the screenGamma to 2.2 on the Mac does solve the
> > color
> > matching problem, it creates an even larger color perception difference
> > between the two platforms. IMHO, not necessarily a good idea.
>
> Thinking about this issue more, and loaded a JPEG photo into my
> gammatest stack, and I can't notice a difference at all in the JPEG
> display when I switch from screenGamma 2.2 to 1.8. Is that what would
> be expected? I guess I'm still confused
>
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