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- Tuesday, September 19, 2000. On this day: BBC, Wikipedia, HowTo
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Corrected the gamma correction in my images. It turns out that I used the Gamma() function for Image Magick incorrectly. Aparently, Gamma(gamma=>2.2) doesn't adjust the image so that it's gamma is 2.2 but in fact, adjust the gamma by a factor of 2.2! This made my photos look really washed out. I didn't notice at first because I was doing the conversion in Linux (I dual boot my mac system MacOS/YellowDog). The photos didn't look too washed out (because the gamma in Linux is usually around 2.5), so I made the mistake of thinking that maybe the default gamma for YellowDog was set the same as the Mac's. It wasn't until I viewed the photos in MacOS that I noticed how terrible they looked. They seemed far more washed out then they normally would if I did the correction in MacOS. So, I went back and instead used Gamma(gamma=>1.2) because going from 1.8 to 2.2 is an adjustment by a factor of about 1.2. This seems to be correct now but I haven't double-checked it yet on a PC system. However, the photos are now slightly lighter on the Mac and seemed slightly darker in Linux, so I think I've got it right this time.
# Posted 9:24 PM
- Monday, September 18, 2000. On this day: BBC, Wikipedia, HowTo
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I finally cracked and changed the gamma on my photos. I had been using 1.8 (the Mac default) and hadn't realized how terrible that looks on PC systems. Apparently, the PC system I tested it on wasn't using the PC's usual gamma of 2.5, so the photos looked fine. Anyways, I've now gone to using a gamma of 2.2 for all my photos, this will make the photos a bit washed out on the Mac and a bit too dark on the PC, but it won't be as drastic as before (where the photos were way too dark on the PC. There are also some new photos of Estonia and Russia, more to follow!
# Posted 9:29 PM
- Sunday, September 17, 2000. On this day: BBC, Wikipedia, HowTo
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I've added a partial version of chapter 4 of my travels in Russia. This is only about half done, but since the end of it doesn't seem in sight right now, I thought I should at least put up what I have.
# Posted 9:30 PM
- Thursday, September 07, 2000. On this day: BBC, Wikipedia, HowTo
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Fixed the image links in my framing with a zoom lens article, the links now go to the proper images. This was due to a problem I created when I changed the numbering of some of my slides. I had scanned a set of slides in the wrong order, and wanted to fix the numbering in my images. I fixed the image tags, but I missed the links. This is why changing filenames on a site is bad!
# Posted 9:31 PM
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