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I use PS7 on a PC. Im having a problem with 16- to 8-bit conversion and wonder if any other PC users have noticed it also.
Try this:
1. Open a new 256×256 RGB image
2. Define a gray, e.g. <9, 9, 9>
3. Using the paint bucket, fill the image with the gray
4. Display the histogram. You should see a single straight line for each of the 4 charts with zero standard deviation
5. Convert to 16-bits, i.e. Image, Mode, 16-bits
6. Convert to 8-bits, i.e. Image, Mode, 8-bits
What results on my PC is that 237 of the pixels convert to <10,10,10>. The deviate pixels are located randomly, with the first occurring at 0, 221. I wonder if Im seeing an undocumented feature of PS. If this isnt replicable its probably a hardware bug on my machine.
I noticed this initially in a 16-bit image with large areas of uniform color. When I convert it to 8-bits, however, the incorrectly converted pixels are noticeable as speckles. On my PC this paradoxically means that using 16-bits means a loss of accuracy.
Dane
Try this:
1. Open a new 256×256 RGB image
2. Define a gray, e.g. <9, 9, 9>
3. Using the paint bucket, fill the image with the gray
4. Display the histogram. You should see a single straight line for each of the 4 charts with zero standard deviation
5. Convert to 16-bits, i.e. Image, Mode, 16-bits
6. Convert to 8-bits, i.e. Image, Mode, 8-bits
What results on my PC is that 237 of the pixels convert to <10,10,10>. The deviate pixels are located randomly, with the first occurring at 0, 221. I wonder if Im seeing an undocumented feature of PS. If this isnt replicable its probably a hardware bug on my machine.
I noticed this initially in a 16-bit image with large areas of uniform color. When I convert it to 8-bits, however, the incorrectly converted pixels are noticeable as speckles. On my PC this paradoxically means that using 16-bits means a loss of accuracy.
Dane
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