Re: Gimp and 16bit (TIFF) (and WinME!) ?

On 3 Feb 2008 at 20:04, corncrake12 wrote:

> Hi all,
> for many years now my gimp1.2.3 has served well for all my needs :)
> However, now that I have my first digital camera, I find that I need
> something that will handle 16bit tiff (as produced by DCRAW in 16bit
> linear mode),, and it is time for a gimp upgrade anyway !! But I see

GIMP supports (as far as I know) only 8-it color channels, hence it won't support 16-
bit TIFFs. If there's a way to get this support, then I'm all ears, but I've never 
heard of it. That's the big difference with Cinepaint (previously FilmGIMP).

I suspect 16-bit channel support could be the issue that eventually pushes me 
elsewhere. :-( 8-bit channels picket-fence all too quickly, not to mention the 
degredation of my 12-bit per channel raw images to 8 bit before I even start editing.

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