# Hard coded gamma value (massive bug)

**URL:** <https://forums.synfig.org/t/hard-coded-gamma-value-massive-bug/3946>\
**Category:** Debugging\
**Created:** [July 24, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/hard-coded-gamma-value-massive-bug/3946 "2016-07-24T17:22:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/hard-coded-gamma-value-massive-bug/3946/1 "2016-07-24T17:22:44Z")

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Gamma is hard coded to 2.2 (which destroys all rendering with alpha values and any kind of blurring)

[synfig.org/issues/thebuggeni … issues/150](http://www.synfig.org/issues/thebuggenie/synfig/issues/150)  
[synfig.org/issues/thebuggeni … /issues/17](http://www.synfig.org/issues/thebuggenie/synfig/issues/17)

and several other reports… (some saying the bug has been fixed–when it doesn’t seem to have been)  
Ive tried both synfig studio and command line versions of: synfig 1.0.2  
Both fail.

This has been open for 3 years–and it makes synfig unusable for me and probably many others.  
Is this easy to fix? Its not a case of changing a variable?

thanks,