I frequently use the GIMP for patterns/fractals that are to be used as height fields. For this, it would be nice if 16bit gray scale was available. I figure GIMP will eventually have 16bit support.
B. Vanderburg II David Marrs wrote: > David Southwell wrote: > >> Anyone... >> Finally does anyone have a handle on the timeframe for 2.4?? >> >> > Not really. I think you'll just have to be patient. > > Incidentally, unless you've got a pro camera and lens, a high quality, > properly > calibrated monitor and a very good printer, I really don't think you're going > to > benefit from the extra bit depth. Probably you know this already but I > suspect > many people out there are under the mistaken impression that they're losing > quality if they use Gimp when really they're not. > > For a while I've been using Gimp in preference to Cinepaint because I felt > that > 8bpc was good enough and well worth the tiny sacrifice in quality for the > massive gains in usability. But I was surprised to learn from a pro > photographer > friend recently that he forces his Photoshop down to 8-bits because, even > with > his set-up, he couldn't see the difference in quality. And he makes the > reasonable point that he doesn't want to be manipulating bits he can't see. > > --- Scanned by M+ Guardian Messaging Firewall --- > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
