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RE: [Digital BW] Re: Bit depth, was Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO

2001-09-28 by Austin Franklin

> I suspect that a bit of programming effort goes into ensuring that 'the
> graph' fits onto the available space. However, it would be nice
> if there was
> an 'actual data' mode... most values in this case would clip
> (especially in
> 8 bit mode) - but it would be fantastic for seeing where there were actual
> 'shadow' / highlight data. IOW- the scale of many histograms forces this
> data into being indistinguishable from the X axis. This isn't a big deal -
> but would enable the user to visually decide what is 'noise' data and what
> is real texture data. The user could then set end-points by inspection,
> where the computer can physically count the pixels to clip 0.05%
> of pixels,
> or whatever.

Something I think might be useful to me is for me to be able to identify
what on the histogram corresponds to what on the image...like when you mouse
over the image, the histogram highlights that value...and vice versa...

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