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No. If they’re ICC savvy at all, then they’re designed to use whatever display profile you have set up in your Display Preferences. If there actually is something that assumes 1.8, then it’s either really old, or the developer is caught in a time warp.
….Besides if you work in Photoshop, the monitor gamma is irrelevant as long as the monitor profile and calibration are accurate. Just use an RGB space with a 2.2 gamma.
20 years of using Macs, including working at Apple-related companies.
The Mac has Always been gamma 1.8, every since the Mac II, the first colour Macintosh.
Gates was too lazy to look at the hundreds of pages of research that Apple did into colour display, photography, etc, before they produced their first system. Apple even had Sony prepare a special monitor, which had over 5 times the "resolution" of other 640 x 480 colour monitors of the day; the Apple 15" monitor could display a single black pixel on a gray screen, and with a magnifying glass, you could see that that pixel was not a BLOB (like other monitors), it was actually SQUARE !
I’ve been working with computer graphics since 1971, including digital photography and multiemdia at the (now) MIT Media Lab. I even produced a computer colourized short video, captured from Super8 movie film in 1973, and written back out to Super8 film!
"I’ve used OSX since the public beta and wouldn’t use a 1.8 gamma. It looks too washed out, but then I’m used to the 2.2gamma."
If your pix are produced in 2.2 gamma, then of course they’ll look washed out at 1.8.
The 1.8 gamma optimizes the D/A conversion hardware which was prevalent back in the mid-1980s. Hardware is much more sophisticated today, but back then, digital photos on the Mac looked far better than those on PCs. This persisted until the mid- to late-1990s.
Since most of my work is done on Macs, and most of the pros I deal with use Macs, and ALL of them are using 1.8 Gamma, then that makes sense for me, in general.
When I have to do a project which is to be installed on a PC kiosk, I can either try to figure out how to make the PC (and any subsequent PCs) run at gamma 1.8, or I can set my Mac there while in Photoshop for this project and prepare my assets that way.
I didn’t intend to get into a philosophical discussion, sorry.
Just wondering if Photoshop has a setting to allow me to simulate 2.2 gamma for a while.
this is untrue. you might think 10,000,000 colour professionals use it, because you still do.
If you are a color professional in the 21st century you use a Gamma of 2.2.
If you are stuck in the 1980s you use a Gamma of 1.8
I happen to be using up to date gear with up to date calibration tools. We are trying to help you William. If you don’t want to learn why did you bother to come here and ask?
William, your question has been answered. Let go of the legacy B&W LaserWriter Gamma 1.8 days and profile your displays to Gamma 2.2. Gamma 1.8 is ancient history.
Do you know that the Adobe RGB (1998) working space, as well as most working spaces, are Gamma 2.2?
If you really want to help your Clients you need to properly calibrate your monitors with a 2.2 gamma do do it once and forget it. There is no simple switch. that is what everyone is trying to tell you.
and please give us the source of this 1.8 gamma is what should be used. You seem to keep leaving this out.
In the monitor calibration preferences, one of the steps is to choose your Gamma for the monitor:
"Apple Standard" is titled on the slider, and it is 1.8
"PC Standard" is also labelled on the slider, and it is 2.2
My mother had a good reply when I said "But all the other kids are doing it". She would ask "If all the other kids were jumping off a cliff, would you be jumping off it too?"
Do any of you have Macs?
I’ve been using Macs since 1989 Currently I’m using a G5 dual core with an Apple 23" CinemaHD calibrated with a Greytagmacbeth EyeOne 2 calibration puck and software.
RAmón ,William is a ludite he refuses to move forward. Even Apple on their website recommends using a 2.2 gamma. But he will never read these post because he is gone as he does not want to hear the new way things are done.
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