nice in theory. every image editing program i have, about 7, and all my image browsing programs, another 4, all support 16-bit TIFF files. Pentax's own RAW converter outputs 16-bit TIFFs for a reason. i'm not in 16-bit/channel mode to be able to see the differences while i am editing, i'm in the mode so that i don't get posterization when i make many adjustments.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey D. Jonsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:52 PM Subject: Re: Scanning Question > Well, Baseline TIFF (per spec ver. 6.0) is 8 bits per color channel, 24 bits > for RGB, and 8 bits for grayscale. 16-bit per color channel TIFFs are > supported in Photoshop, and some other programs, but aren't universally > transferrable yet. And of course JPEG only supports 8 bit color, and any > conversion to JPEG is gonna lose that info.