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RE: [Digital BW] Re: 8bit to 16 bit

2007-04-10 by Paul Roark

Derek,

>A little bit of computer science here.

>... lets say that you adjust the global contrast of your image. ...
> In an 8 bit file if we subtract 1 from each value less 
> than 128 then we now have 126 tones where we had 127 tones 
> before the subtraction. This is because the pixels that were 
> formerly at value 1 are now at zero ...

If you'd used curves for this adjustment, would there have been any loss?

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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