Comment Re:Click a few pages further and you'll see... (Score 2) 87
> "GIMP is 8-bit only. The Hollywood is planning a 16-bit version"
The bits referred to in that article are not related to total number of bits
in each pixel, but instead, number of bits in each channel - those channels
being red, green, blue and alpha. Currently, gimp only supports 8bits/channel,
which results in 24bit images with an 8 bit alpha channel. 16bits/channel
images would have higher quality, since instead of only 256 levels to
present a particular color brightness, there would be 65535 of them. I think
with the new gimp design planned for gimp 2.0/3.0 this issue will be addressed.
The bits referred to in that article are not related to total number of bits
in each pixel, but instead, number of bits in each channel - those channels
being red, green, blue and alpha. Currently, gimp only supports 8bits/channel,
which results in 24bit images with an 8 bit alpha channel. 16bits/channel
images would have higher quality, since instead of only 256 levels to
present a particular color brightness, there would be 65535 of them. I think
with the new gimp design planned for gimp 2.0/3.0 this issue will be addressed.
