Need Help with my Confusion on WIde Gamut and 10-bit displays

Started 6 months ago | Discussion thread
Chris Noble
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Working-space, saved file format and display bit depth
In reply to Simon Garrett, 6 months ago

Simon Garrett wrote:

Photoshop can work in 16 bits or 8 bits. Raw files are usually 12 or 14 bits, which Photoshop can widen to 16 bits, assuming you have set ACR to open in 16-bits thus

TIFF and PSD files can be either 8 or 16 bits (whatever the colour space),

Bit depth and colour space are independent.

but jpeg is always 8 bits. So if you save as jpeg then you have to crunch the data down to 8 bits. Adobe RGB doesn't limit the colour to 8 bits, but jpeg does.

JPEG is a compression scheme; the JPEG bit depth is a variable (usually set to 8 bits but not necessarily). Adobe RGB is a colour space, which is independent of the bit depth that is used to code images into the colour space.

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Simon

There is some confusion in this thread between the bit depth of (1) working space; (2) saved file format, and (3) display/print output format.

Only (3) is relevant to the discussion about 10-bit displays.

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