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Re: [Digital BW] Re: 16 Bit vs. 8 Bit for BO

2004-01-05 by Anthony G. Atkielski

J Michael Sullivan writes:

> Not everyone has Photoshop CS. Not everyone has 2gb ram.
> Not everyone has 1 Terabyte of hd.

And not everyone is manipulating color images.  A 16-bit image in black
and white requires 33% less memory and disk than a color image in 8-bit;
so anyone who can manipulate color images at all already has enough
memory and disk to manipulate 16-bit grayscale images.  So why not do
so?

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