This is simply incorrect, an 8 to 16 back to 8 conversion does not start redrawing an image.

If the bands of posterisation were in fact some subtle detail in the picture that you wanted,( Say wallpaper) this wouldn't just disappear in the conversion. I have seem the effect of burning in skies at 8 bit enough times to know that the gradations ARE more subtle if done in 16 bit.

It's just obvious, think about doing it in 1 bit (or whatever black and white only would be) - the pic is say a a square, half white half black..... converting to 16 then to 8 is not going to bring a whole new range of subtle gradations into the image.

David Purdie


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On 21 May 2004, at 17:14, Otto PETER wrote:

results. Most likely you could have done your manipulations, seen the
posterization, converted to 16-bit, then done a second conversion back to 8 bit
and the posterization would have disappeared. This doesn't prove that taking an

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