AfterDawn: Glossary

R'G'B'

R'G'B' is gamma corrected RGB.

The gamma correction adjusts the overall brightness of an RGB image by normalizing the pixel's RGB color components from its current integer values of 0 through 255 to real numbers between 0.0 and 1.0.

It then raises the normalized value of the pixel to a specified power, which is otherwise known as the gamma value. It will then transform the new value back to an integer component between 0 a 255.

Any gamma value between 0 and 1 will lighten up an image while anything higher will darken the image.

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