Color Depth

[Sasha Sapojnikoff]

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> This is
>why I believe that lowering a mark because of darkness or brightness can only
>be considered if the image still lacks detail after brightness (etc..)
>adjustment. And here we are again about color depth, and formats supporting
>gamma settings ;-)
>
>--
>François DISPOT
>http://www.geocities.com/vienna/7709

This misses my point. While I may have photoshop at my disposal, and a half decent monitor (which is probably miscalibrated in ways I don't know about), I am perfectly aware that many people have less than decent monitors to work with, which is why I tossed out my suggestion on a simple method of calibration. 

I will give allowances to murky and washed out pictures up to a point, and there is one that I have trouble deciding whether the color cast is intentional or not (colors change wildly depending on the level of correction). What disturbs me is that my image might be downrated because it is being viewed on a monitor that makes these images look normal, not because it's actually bad to begin with. 

Which is not to say I think that people should have a top of the line monitor to view images, just that there might be simple adjustments that could be made to bring things closer to what might be considered real color. 

This also is the best reason not to bother with PNG: Many if not most would not be able to tell the difference between it and JPEG. 

Sasha Sapojnikoff
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