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

2002-03-29 by Austin Franklin

> (snip)
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> Good point. You're right I only have three settings available 256 colors,
> 16-bit and 32-bit.
>
> Martin

Yeah, me too, as I wanted to try what Todd was suggesting.  It may be a Mac
thing?  Are you on a Mac or a PC Todd?

Austin

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