Chapter 11. Advanced Color Options and HDR

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Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked “Brightness,” but it doesn’t work.

—Gallagher

Perhaps you are somewhere near your computer monitor, and there is a window near that monitor. Perhaps there is daylight outside that window, and although like most computer graphics artists you probably work with the shades closed, perhaps some of that light is entering the room. If you were to take a photo out that window from inside that room from where that monitor sits, and then display it on that monitor, would there be any difference between how the room appeared ...

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