[Leica] OT: ACDSee oddities with JPEG B&W images

[ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)]

I did install ACDSee on my PC and removed it rather quickly again as it
F..up all my photoshop/Imageready and Illustrator settings. I might have
overlooked somthing during the install, but I hate when programs interfer
with your normal working settings
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "eric" <leica_korenman@hotmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: ACDSee oddities with JPEG B&W images


> Any better alternative to ACDSee out there?
>
> Eric
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard F. Man" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: ACDSee oddities with JPEG B&W images
>
>
> > I use ACDSee 5 and it displays color JPG in much less details and less
> > saturation. It does this regardless of the color profiles used. Hence I
> > only use ACDSee as a organizer and faster browser but not really to
> examine
> > the pictures.
> >
> > At 06:51 PM 8/26/2004, eric wrote:
> >
> > >For some time now I have felt that ACDSee was displaying my B&W JPEG
> > >images a bit 'gray'.
> > >I finally did some testing tonight and discovered, to my shock, that a
> > >JPEG B&W image saved in grayscale format, and a copy saved in RGB
format
> > >will display differently in ACDSee. The highlights 'gray' ever so
> slightly
> > >in the grayscale format JPEG.
> >
> > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,
please
> > use richard at imagecraft.com)
> >
>
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