[filmscanners] RE: [filmscanners_Digest] filmscanners Digest for Tue 2 Sep, 2003

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

Bob,
Technically you may be correct; but no matter how you cut it the file is
ultimately converted to an 8-bit file in the end in order for use by the
current models of inkjet and other printers.  It makes no difference if the
conversion is manual or automatic; moreover, there are certain tools and
features of Photoshop, which the writer claims to possibly utilize, that
will only work on 8-bit files thereby necessitating a conversion from 16-bit
to 8-bit in Photoshop in order to use those tools and features.

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Bob Frost
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 5:47 AM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: [filmscanners_Digest] filmscanners Digest
for Tue 2 Sep, 2003


Laurie,

You don't have to convert from 16-bit to 8-bit for printing, because
Photoshop is clever enough to do it automatically after it has done any
color conversions. Bruce Fraser points this out in RWP.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: "LAURIE SOLOMON" <laurie@advancenet.net>

Maybe; but what are you printing or outputing to?  Most of the output
devices including printers will not accept 16-bit or hi-bit input files,
which means that you would have to convert the files to 8-bit in the end
before sending them to the printer; how does this impact on the quality of
the file so as to make it different from what you would have gotten using an
8-bit scan or even a hi-bit scan that was converted to 8-bit when working on
it in Photoshop using the Photoshop tools that will only work 8-bit along
with those that do work with 16-bit as well as 8-bit?

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