Hi aka Doe ... All my work, including B&W, is done in in 16-bit until the final flattened save for the web or for printing. Originals are ~never~ touched, there's a WIP (work in progress folder) for each photo in which the image in its various iterations are saved (along with layers and saved profiles for curves, hue/sat, levels, etc), a slot for the final layered version, and a place for the final output files, whether JPEG for the web or 8-bit TIFF for printing.
I believe you can get better resultant tonality when working in 16-bit because you're starting with more information and are often loosing less of it. So the 8-bit conversion has more info than if you worked on it as an 8-bit file from the beginning. Plus - and this is important to consider - although rare, there are some printers that will work in greater than 8-bit mode right now, and at some point that will probably be more common. When that happens it might be nice to have a 16-bit file to print from. Shel > I notice when one imports a RAW into PS one can import it as 16 bit. > > So I am wondering how many of you do that? Specifically when making a B&W > conversion. But also with color. > > Does it make a difference if you later save it as a JPEG (8-bit)? Can you get > sublter tonal values for B&W? (And maybe subtler color ranges for color?) > > Or is it all lost again when one saves it later as an 8-bit?
