Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I know that it is very difficult to make a 16 bits machines. How >true/accurate is it when Photoshop 4.0 say its 16 bits? A normal 16 bit >hardware would not give the actual 16 bits, unless special considerations >are taken note in the design. I am curious how Photoshop go around and >get the 16 bits. >Lee Lee, There is no problem with 16-bit-per-channel files in Photoshop. Those bits are only numbers; Photoshop can work with them, no matter how you got them. The problems with accuracy are in going from analog to digital (scanning or taking a digital photo) and then going back to analog (printing). Everything in-between is just changing numbers, and there is no problem here, other than the fact that your files will be twice as big as 8-bit-per-channel files. - - Paul