Ive written a bunch of tools for the studio, and for some reason on some of the peoples’ computers the images in the rollouts appear bleached out. We’re all running 2016 SP3. The images are being saved out of Photoshop as PNG24s.
This is what is appearing on some computers
This is how it looks on my computer
This is the settings both computers are running in Gamma/Lut.
Is there some setting somewhere that you can set the G/L for interface graphics that I’m not aware of?
Is the image background transparent? if not then it could be monitor settings.
There are a few things you can check. Before Max 2014 (I think) the gamma values where handled different.
For instance there were two parameters in the UI where you could control the input and output gamma fileInGamma and fileOutGamma.
Since Max 2014 they are no longer in the UI but still affect the values of the images, so the first thing you could check is if the fileInGamma has the same value of the current used gamma. If it has a lower value images will appear brighter, if it has a higher value they will appear darker.
I don’t remember if the fileInGamma value is saved as default when you set it, but I think it is, so it could have been saved by a script or there may be another script that changes it when Max is loaded.
Other than that, you can try specifying the gamma value when you open the image, for example:
(
img1 = openbitmap "C:\ghost.png" gamma:#default
img2 = openbitmap "C:\ghost.png" gamma:#auto
img3 = openbitmap "C:\ghost.png" gamma:0.5
display img1
display img2
display img3
)
Yeah. I ended up just forcing the gamma to 2.2 in the tools and it seems to work. What I dont get is why the gamma only seems to be affecting images with alphas. If I just put out a standard jpg without an alpha its fine, but if I use a png with an alpha it ramps the whole images.
Now I just have to remember to set the gamma in all my tool header images. Luckily everything here is being stored on a server so I only have to update the master file to fix everyone’s comp.
Thanks guys!
j