V-Ray Q

Nerono

I rendered a shot using a linear workflow, than turned SRGB View in the VFB.
I saved the img as a jpeg, and it still showed it in the windows photo viewer as it showed the img in the VFB with the SRGB View.
The img I saved was in linear color space, without a viewer or a program to change the gamma, it wont show in SRGB but as linear, so why as a JPEG which works in SRGB color space and NOT linear it showed everything correctly?

oglu

im not sure what you are doing exactly but the vfb does bake in the srgb during saving...
if you render directly into EXR you will get all linear files...

musashidan

Also, why on earth would you save your render as a .jpeg? 16bit tiff/png/tga or the like is going to give you a much broader range, and lossless. Even if you don't save to 32bit exr the vfb srgb toggle won't matter if you leave the option set to 'recommended' at file save. You will get a 1:1 when you open it in PS.

Can't help you on the jpeg thing as I've never....ever.....saved one as a render.

Nerono

musashidan said:

Also, why on earth would you save your render as a .jpeg? 16bit tiff/png/tga or the like is going to give you a much broader range, and lossless. Even if you don't save to 32bit exr the vfb srgb toggle won't matter if you leave the option set to 'recommended' at file save. You will get a 1:1 when you open it in PS.

Can't help you on the jpeg thing as I've never....ever.....saved one as a render.

OGLU answered my question perfectly, I saved it as a jpeg to see the result, thats why I was wondering, I am not going to save it as jpeg being a compressed format which is low in color range.

im not sure what you are doing exactly but the vfb does bake in the srgb during saving...
if you render directly into EXR you will get all linear files...

thank you for the help! can I disable this option? just wondering.

musashidan

You can overide the gamma to 1 in the image file save options.