Digital BW, The Print

> From: Glenn Mitchell [mailto:gmitchel850@...]
> 
> Noise becomes more apparent because of the effects of posterization 
> as you edit the image.
> 
> Chromatic noise which is barely noticeable when the image is loaded, 
> for example, can be quite obvious as clumping or graininess after 
> levels adjustments, curves adjustments, hue/saturation adjustments 
> precisely because you are selectively expanding some information and 
> selectively compressing other information. What starts out as 
> continuous or near-continuous tones becomes less so. This effect 
> will be more exaggerated with an 8-bit image than a 16-bit image.

Sure, but at least you won't see outright banding.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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