Imported images are very dark

[Mark Schonewille]

This might be a Snow Leopard problem, although Simon didn't say he  
works on Snow Leopard.
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On 11 jun 2010, at 20:11, Jim Ault wrote:

>
> On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Simon Lord wrote:
>>> The images I import into my stacks are much darker than what I see  
>>> in
>>> Photoshop.  Is there a reason for this?  I'm working in sRGB so  
>>> don't
>>> see a reason for this discrepancy.
>>
>> If you are saving the images as .png, they have an embedded gamma  
>> setting. Try saving as .jpg instead and see if that helps.
> Actually, the color shift occurs when using Photoshop as the  
> external editor.
>
> In a Rev stack,
> Get the rgb values of the top-left pixel of an image.
> Right click on an image, choose external editor as Photoshop.
> Make an edit, note the exact rgb values the top left pixel, then  
> close to update the image in Rev.
>
> Now you will see a slightly different rgb values than Photoshop  
> reported.
>
> From what I remember, this shift is relative and not the same offset  
> for each r,g,b channel.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas