Re: raw scans and their histograms
Re: raw scans and their histograms
- Subject: Re: raw scans and their histograms
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:58:43 EDT
In a message dated 9/26/01 3:20:10 PM, email@hidden writes:
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What determines where the endpoints of a RAW highbit scans (no tonal
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manipulation by the driver or image editor, and no profile assigned) get
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written to Photoshop's histogram in 16-bit mode? In other words, why does
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it
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appear to be of such low dynamic range, and bunched into the dark end of
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the
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histogram?
It seems to be as simple as Photoshop starting at the black end, unless the
file is targeted highbit, in which case the 12 or 14 bits will be properly
padded out into the 16 bit format already.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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