EXR file

chcaus2-bloom.exr

chcaus2-bloom.jpg

Image examples

Sure.  Look at this gist:  https://gist.github.com/4679014

It includes the same image file, in EXR, PNG, and JPEG formats.

The EXR file is the "master", and of course is encoded in linear-light, so shouldn't have gamma issues (haha!).  The other files have a gamma-correction of 1 / 2.2.  In the PNG, there's an explicit gAMA chunk describing this; in the JPEG file it's implicit (because of sRGB).

The PNG and jpeg files display identically with every program I've tried -- eog (gnome), "display" (imagemagick), web browsers (firefox, chrome), "geeqie" (not so common, but a nice and generally capable image display program).  Most of these can't handle EXR, but "display" does, and it displays darker than the 8-bit files, similar to the way iv does.

"iv" displays the PNG file identically to the other programs, but displays the EXR and JPEG files much darker, suggesting that indeed maybe the issue is that iv is doing the wrong thing on _display_: using the correct gamma adjustment when reading jpeg files, getting linear-light values internally... and then using the wrong gamma-correction when sending to the display.  Of course then that suggests PNG input is being handled incorrectly...

[I do not know the extent to which those other programs even try to handle gamma; I'm guessing that traditional "stupid" image display programs tended to get thing right accidentally by simply never doing any gamma adjustment at all, and benefiting from the fact that the display protocol uses a similar gamma correction to 8-bit file formats...]

chcaus2-bloom.png

chcaus2-bloom.tga