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- Monitors Control Panel: "Special Gamma" Function Explained 1/93
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- Article Created: 9 January 1990
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- Article Change History
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- 09/14/92 - REVISED
- • To provide additional information.
- 01/21/93 - REVISED
- • To add more detailed instructions for changing Gamma
- settings.
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- TOPIC -----------------------------------------------------------
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- Can you provide any information on the Special Gamma function in the
- Monitors control panel?
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- DISCUSSION ------------------------------------------------------
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- How to Change the Gamma Setting
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- Special Gamma allows different gamma tables to be selected. You access it
- through the Monitors control panel:
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- • By holding down the Option key while clicking the "Options..." button
- or
- • By holding down the Option key while double clicking the happy Mac face
- that appears in the monitor window.
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- Now you get a dialog box where you can change the setting:
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- 1) Check the "Use Special Gamma" checkbox.
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- 2) Highlight the "Mac HiRes Std Gamma" or "Uncorrected Gamma" in the scroll
- box.
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- 3) Restart the computer.
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- An Example of Special Gamma Table Use
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- A company has a video card that supports the two different displays that
- they sell. Unfortunately, these two displays show colors differently on
- the screen. Being able to select the gamma table allows the company to
- make both displays generate comparable colors to the viewer's eye.
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- The following information is on page 9-16 of "Designing Cards and Drivers
- for the Macintosh II and Macintosh SE" (Addison Wesley, ISBN
- #0-201-19256-X):
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- "The gamma table compensates for nonlinearities in a display's color
- response by providing either a function or a look-up value that
- associates each displayed color with an absolute RGB value. It is used
- to modify a video card's color look-up table. The gamma table is
- described in the chapter 'Graphic Devices' of Inside Macintosh Volume V
- (Addison Wesley, ISBN #0-2-1-17719-6)."
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- Displays that don't use gamma-table correction tend to look over-saturated
- and dark. Although determining the correct values for a gamma table can be
- difficult without special tools, the table's contribution to image quality
- can be striking.
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- Copyright 1990, 1992, 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
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