BTW, I realize even in my excess I may not have covered your real question. When a file is overworked in 8-bit, the way it would typically show up is posterization and/or banding in smooth tones, and in the case of grainy images, increased coarseness of the grain. Todd > I asked anybody on the ColorSync List once to explain to me the > crux of ColorSync in 25 words or less. It threw them into a tizzy. > Andrew Rodney got close though. > > I actually think 2500 wouldn't cover it, in a way that's really > understandable.
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Re: [Digital BW] 16-bit Scanning: Why?
2001-12-05 by Todd Flashner