- From: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
- Date: 2008年7月11日 13:45:02 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
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> Chris Murphy wrote:
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>> And then also that there has been no implementation of gamma
>> correction, and still there is no implementation of gamma (only)
>> correction, Section 3.1.1 which remains in the spec?
>
> Do you mean gamma correction in general, or a CSS specification for
> it? You can't do transparency or anti-aliasing properly without it
> (although I suspect that a lot of image replacements are not
> properly gamma corrected!).
I web browsers do not apply the specifed gamma correction as stated in
Section 3.1.1. Images do still look lighter on the Macintosh than they
do on Windows, as to be expected since the Mac OS has a different tone
reproduction curve. If a correction curve were applied, it would
compel those images to display darker, and if everything worked out
just right the resulting image TRC would be the same as it is on
Windows which has no correction.
This correction isn't occurring. Web browsers on the Mac don't do it.
It's faster to just use ColorSync anyway, which they also do not use
for untagged content, not even Safari.
> I would be interested to know how many authors actually understand
> gamma correction. It is very common on amateur and in house
> designed web sites to find images with gamma 1.0, yet the authors
> seem to be oblivious as to how dark they render).
An image with no encoding ("gamma 1.0") or linear encoding would look
completely washed out. I think it would be obvious to anyone with
vision that there is a serious problem so I'm not sure how big of a
problem this really could be unless people just aren't paying attention.
> It is also not that uncommon to find ones with the Mac gamma,
> although they are more likely to come from a design agency. To some
> extent this is exacerbated because it seems that some digital
> cameras generated gamma 1.0 but label it as sRGB.
I know if no camera that does this. Digital cameras all do have linear
response to light, and record it that way. The raw data is processed
in the camera, tone mapped where it has a tone reproduction curve
defined by either the sRGB curve or gamma 2.2, and is then JPEG
compressed and tagged with EXIF data as to its color space.
Off hand I can't think of a single camera that is embedding ICC
profiles in images.
And here is another area where W3C should take some leadership and
that is whether or not web browsers should honor EXIF color space
data. I think it should, and I think at least mozilla is looking into
honoring the EXIF color space tag.
> (The problem being that image sensors generally approximate gamma
> 1.0 devices, so need gamma correcting for either sRGB use or to
> achieve equal perceptual brightness steps between digitisation
> levels. sRGB approximates CRT behaviour; the Mac approximates equal
> perceptual brightness).
This is already done by the time the JPEG is written out. I don't
understand at all the suggestion that this is not being done and that
images are linear encoded
Raw images are linear encoded, which are processed with software
designed to do so, and their main function tone mapping.
>
> Images with bad gamma appear in PDF as well.
What does bad gamma mean?
Chris Murphy
Received on Friday, 11 July 2008 18:03:37 UTC