Re: Film Gimp 16-bit

Daniel-Marian Baboiu <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:06:33 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.gimp.windows.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Robin Rowe wrote:
> 
> Hi. Just FYI.
> 
> Film Gimp is a 16-bit per channel variant of Gimp used by the motion picture
> industry. Still film photographers can also need greater bit depth than
> Gimp's 8-bit per channel (24-bit rgb).

CCD astronomers also need 16 bit per channel (and sometimes 12 bit per
channel). The current method is to use some specialised software, where
usually they convert to 8 bit and then use Adobe Photoshop.

DMB

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