Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

> thats odd. that size should be fine. i work in film
> res all the time (4kx3k) at 32bpp (yes, i know film
> should be done at 48 or 64 bpp to prevent banding, i
> only work this res for testing)

can I see some references for these values? Seems that number
is just climbing all the time. can the human eye distinguish
more than 26-bit? Even at 4kx3k, you've only got 12million pixels
that can be of different colours. 

(How do you see a 64bit picture on the monitor? ;-) )

alan