Digital BW, The Print

I agree that working in 16 bit does less damage overall, you can see it in
the Histogram. And I guess with my workflow I'm up sampling anyway, my D2x
shoots in 12 bit and up samples to 16 in PS or other software.

 

Alan

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Patrick
Carr
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:40 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] JPEG workflow question

 

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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Carr Imaging
patcarr@swcp. <mailto:patcarr%40swcp.com> com

 



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