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Using 32 bits per channel

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Using 32 bits per channel

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of creating visual effects with light and I know that this seems kind of technical All colors in your image are made up of each color are possible in each channel. of each color are possible in each channel. In the Color Picker you can see In the Color Picker you can see that white uses the most light, the most red, green and blue light, at 255, 255, 255 in each channel. If we Alt or Option-click the eight bpc button in the Project Panel, we'll get to 16 bits per channel mode which gives us even more color options in each channel, by a lot. This results in smoother gradients and gives us more fine-tune adjustments. and gives us more fine-tune adjustments. But the real magic is when we Alt or Option-click this again and go to 32 bits per channel. And this changes everything. Nothing here behaves as we'd expect it to. Nothing here behaves as we'd expect it to. We might expect ridiculously huge numbers here now, but instead, black is…

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