Digital BW, The Print

Right, that's what I plan to do.  The prints with CS sure look different to
me, but then I need to do some structured testing.  I recall reading
somewhere that PS has always had 16-bit layer capability, but it was
disabled because of the hardware limitations then.  The only thing I know
for sure right now is that I need a better PC.  I have an older 1.7 P4 with
1.3gb of ram, and it does gasp on larger prints.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com 

 
> Someone mentioned that Photoshop's algorithms for doing 
> adjustment layers have lots of shortcuts in them to make them 
> more efficient, at the expense of accuracy, since they were 
> designed back when we were all running much wimpier 
> processors. And these shortcuts are probably retained in the 
> latest version, so that old fles opened in PS CS won't look 
> different. But it's possible that when they added 16-bit 
> adjustment layers, they decided to do the 16-bit versions of 
> the calculations without these hacks, since they're no longer 
> necessary. If you still have PS7 installed, you might try 
> some simple tests to see if printing files without layers, or 
> with 8-bit layers only, exhibits the same shift between the versions.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...