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16-bit in Photoshop

16-bit in Photoshop

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16-bit in Photoshop

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- This week on "The Practicing Photographer," we're going to get really nerdy. Now, I have to say that really nothing that I'm going to say here today really has any (laughs) practical impact on anything you're going to do as a photographer. That's not true. That's not true. If you do a lot of HDR, if you do a lot of astrophotography, or if you work with extremely high-end equipment, then what I'm going to tell you might have some practical import to you. But for the rest of us, it really doesn't matter, but I still think it's really interesting, and it will maybe teach you a little something about some color theory. So as you probably know, there are 8-bit images and there are 16-bit images. When we talk about 8-bit or 16-bit, we're simply talking about how big a number you can use to represent the color of a pixel. With 8-bits, you can count from 0 to 255. That means you can have 256 different shades of either red,…

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