I was tired of creating theme images on my Mac that came out murky on the PC. I went to look at a theme on the PC and it looked horrible. I had to retouch all the images I had spent so long creating in Photoshop. With Snow Leopard, Apple is moving to a gamma of 2.2 anyway, so given my issues it didn’t make sense to wait.
For those people using Macs with the gamma still set to 1.8, I’m happier with them getting brighter slightly washed out images than PC users getting murky, dirty looking images. Eventually all the Mac users will be at 2.2 anyway.
One thing I was really happy about was that iPhoto images are not affected. They look the same with either gamma because of the use of color profiles. I wish the web would get the whole color profiles situation under control.
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