On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:58:36 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
[email protected] wrote:

| I am trying to convert 16-bit GRAY files to 8-bit JPEG or PNG format.
| Since the original images are actually 12-bit, I assume that I need to 
| right-shift each pixel, so I'm using a command like
| 
| convert -size 512x512+3416 -depth 16 -evaluate RightShift 4 -endian LSB 
gray:c_vf1169.fre c_vf1169_rs4_lsb.png
| 
| The effect seems to be that the high-order byte is simply ignored when 
| the right-shift is done. Could someone please explain what I'm doing 
| wrong? I'm using IM 6.2.4 Q16 as distributed by Debian.
| 
| I apologize if this is really obvious, but I haven't been able to 
| figure it out or find an answer.
| 
perhaps the 12 bit values in 16 bit integers are already right shifted?


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