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Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by kccqzy »

I hate gain maps in JPEGs. I noticed that because I insisted on capturing JPEGs and not HEIF on my iPhone, and I found that the iPhone would also show overexposed parts (such as the sky) brighter than plain white. That's how I came to know gain maps. Fortunately on iOS, although I cannot disable the inclusion of gain maps in photos I take with Camera.app, I can stop Photos.app from rendering them: just turn off "View Full HDR" in the settings.

The Metapho app on iOS seems to be a good app to view the gain map itself. I give it no access to my photos and use the share sheet to view gain maps of specific images.

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by tjoff »

telecuda wrote: post #15
jonplackett wrote: post #5

Please don’t do this. You know it will be annoying.

I mean, use it responsibly. Of course people won't, it's the internet, but a skilled designer may use it to highlight a word or an accent to draw your eye. It can be tricky in dense interfaces to draw focus to something (little tooltips or big buttons aren't the best answers). This is just another tool in the toolbox.

We haven't had dense interfaces for decades at this point.

Still, even with the best intent what you suggest is still annoying. Okay, you got my attention, i now know what you wanted me to know. Are you going to nag me for all eternity?

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by dgellow »

embedding-shape wrote: post #29
dawnerd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.

> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.

I think they meant that by making an element brighter than the rest you basically change the contrast and the rest will feel dimmer

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by madaxe_again »

froh42 wrote: post #2

Oooh fuuuuuuck. Do we now have the HDR screen version of the 90s/00s CD volume wars? MAX IT OUT?!? BE LOUDER! BE BRIGHTER! WTF.

Our new brand awareness strategy involves firing high power lasers directly into the prospect’s eyes, burning the logo into the centre of their fovea.

This way we get to skip awareness, interest and desire and get the prospect straight to action.

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by layer8 »

fjlunky wrote: post #11
jonplackett wrote: post #5

Please don’t do this. You know it will be annoying.

Pretty sure Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide iOS icon does this. Not the whole icon, just the stars in it. Hiding the app in a folder helps but I’m looking for a better alternative just because of this.

As a workaround, you can use a home screen shortcut to start the app.

But I agree that app developers shouldn’t do this, or should at least provide an option to turn it off. (Some apps allow customizing the app icon color, so it seems that should be possible.)

Re: Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

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Post by dawnerd »

embedding-shape wrote: post #29
dawnerd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. It can also take a bit for the os to go back to the sdr state. I’ve had a few cases where safari gets stuck in hdr mode and won’t revert u til I force closed.

> It’s bad because it dims the entire display. You’re assuming your app is more important than whatever else might be displayed. What are you talking about? I have a HDR display, in Chrome on Arch the literal only change in the submission's demo is the brightness of that particular element, doesn't change anything else on the screen, sounds like you have a broken HDR implementation.

If your setup runs everything in forced hdr you won’t notice. OSes like MacOS will map sdr making everything look dim that’s not hdr.
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