On 22 Oct 2005 at 23:22, William Robb wrote: > Thats a little extreme. At the moment, there is only one printer that I know > of > that supports 16 bit printing. If you have to convert to 8 bit at some point, > does it really matter if the noise reduction is done before or after the > conversion?
Yes, the micro adjustments applied across the image to reduce artifacts are best done when the image is described in 16bits/cc, errors are cumulative. Conversion to printer color-space and then down sampling to 8bits/cc should be done at the very last step of your edit process otherwise you might as well import the RAW for editing as 8bits/cc. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
