Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Guys,

Looks like converting to 16 bit won't hurt and may even help.  I have
the disk space.

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Carr
<patcarr@...> wrote:
>
> Alan Kearney wrote:
> > Patrick is right, although a TIFF file will usually be quite a lot  
> > larger than a Photoshop native PSD file.
> > 
> > I wonder if upscaling from 8 bits to 16 bits will improve your
images  
> > or not. Your asking PS to "make up" pixel data, I think??
> > 
> > Alan
> > 
> 
> True and I wonder the same thing, however, there are those who claim a 
> change to 16 bit is better than leaving at 8 bit for large image 
> adjustments. I haven't done any A-B testing since I process at
native 16 
> bit but it's not going to hurt anything--except for doubling the
size of 
> the file and slowing everything down.
> 
> My intuition says it won't make a lot of difference, but my
intuition is 
> wrong all the time!
> 
> Patrick Carr
> 
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