Re: wide histograms was: That old jpg v. RAW argument again...

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curses.... that's the 3rd or 4th time that i hit the wrong key when composing email. It only ever happens when i post to Photoforum.... what's wrong with you guys???!!!! :)
	
	try http://www.reindeergraphics.com/free.shtml for a photoshop plug-in that shows extra-wide histograms as well as the individual channels...

Best regards, 
Deen
2004-09-16 10:36:46

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At 2004-09-16, 10:01:51 karl shah-jenner (shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> The fact is that the real application for 16bit/channel images (except
>for
>> some rare applications), is for, as I said above, digital retouching.
>With
>> 16bit/channel the digital retouching algorythms has a lot more
>information
>> to work with, and specially when you are working on black and white
>images,
>> 16bit/channel will be very useful on conversions, and the feared
>"histogram
>> gaps" will be very rare.
>
>just a point regarding the histogram gaps - the histogram tool is a small
>graphical representation in Photoshop that is only 128 pixels wide on the
>screen and while 8 bit images will show gaps in theat graph more readily
>than 16 bit images, a larger graph will show that many 16 bit images which
>appear to have no gaps in the photoshop histogram to actually DO have gaps,
>they're just not represented on such a small graph.
>
>
>>
>> I can talk more about histogram gaps and 16bit/channel treatment on black
>> and white images, if you find it interesting.
>>
>> I wrote an article specifically about this, wich is online here:
>>
>> http://www.fotopunto.com/?a=articles&aa=view&article_id=20
>>
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