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RE: [Digital BW] Dynamic Range Definitions and Print Tones

2002-03-29 by Austin Franklin

> > Hmm. Next time you're working a grayscale image on your computer change
> your
> > monitor from millions of colors to 256 shades of gray and tell
> me if your
> > image looks any worse for wear.
>
> Todd,
>
> I tried it and the on screen image looks terribly degraded and
> posterized in
> comparison to 32-bit color monitor setting.

Did you really set your monitor to 256 shades of gray?  I do not have that
ability, I only have the ability to set it to 256 COLORS, not to 256 shades
of gray...that is very different...256 colors will give you virtually no
shades of gray.

Austin

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