sRGB

[horvendile]

I have my CRT screen at home set to show sRGB. I have heard that that is some kind of colour reproduction standard. But does it serve any practical purpose other than to make sure that my screen is very dark?

 

[Simon F]

I have my CRT screen at home set to show sRGB. I have heard that that is some kind of colour reproduction standard. But does it serve any practical purpose other than to make sure that my screen is very dark?

sRGB gives you an 'efficient' mapping from 8-bit colour channels to intensity values that match the response curve of the eye.

Can I suggest you google for "Charles Poynton's gamma FAQ"?

Oh what the heck. It's just 3 clicks to use firefox to google for it anyway:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~buc/brechbuehler/mirror/color/GammaFAQ.html

In particular, look at section 12.

If your monitor set-up is bad, try reading section 16.

 

[horvendile]

Uh, thanks, by the way.