Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What's the big deal with gamma correction?

inklaire opened this issue on May 23, 2010 ยท 242 posts


ghonma posted Tue, 25 May 2010 at 12:39 AM

Quote - My own evaluation is, I'm going to have to wait until someone simplifies things a bit. I have a technique in place that gives me the results that please me. I'm not hurting in that regard. I'll keep an eye on GC to see if it becomes something I think is usable. In the meantime I keep getting and filling commissions, and that's more validation than I ask for.

Note that if your technique gives you a render that looks 'pleasing' or 'right' to your eyes, you're already gamma correcting it. You may not be doing it explicitly through the GC feature, but you're still doing it implicitly with your light/shader settings and any color correction you're doing. This is something many people don't understand about GC - it's not a feature or tool that you can turn on or off, but an inherent defect in all displays (from a cheapass CRT to a $5000 LCD) that you have to compensate for. It's not optional. Doing it explicitly just means that you have more control over the final result and can tweak things better.