Eugenia wrote:   
      
   >You are mistaken. This is not about how   
   >many colors you can see, it is about   
   >quality. 16bpp images can be   
   >manipulated via Photoshop without   
   >losing quality over these manipulations.   
   >So after you clean up some dust etc. you   
   >lose quality each time you save. With   
   >16bpp, the loss is much lesser, and it   
   >shows on the printing copies.   
   >Eugenia   
      
   Ah, now I see what the concern was. Using say JPEGs say to store them   
   and then manipulate the images and saving them thereby degrading the   
   visual information.   
      
   I was aware of Photoshop using 16bpp.   
      
   Now maybe I am missing something, but isn't the BeOS Targa specs at   
   least 24bpp to maybe 32bpp. I was planning on converting straight from   
   Nikons compressed NEF RAW (12bpp) into tga files using BeOS, and then   
   save the final product as a JPEG after the manipulations.   
      
   Now on the JPEGs, it is my understanding that even they can be   
   manipulated and saved over 50 times, before becoming actually visibly   
   deteriorated. I have no clue if that is true though. I was planning on   
   some experiments with this and seeing if it was true after I got the D70   
   and the printer which will still probably be the R800, since I can print   
   directly from the the D70 directly with it or OSX, if I get it.   
      
   Is the BeOS image software or the Targa files somehow below 24bpp?? I am   
   relatively new to this subject up until a few weeks ago and I still   
   trying to learn....Dwight   
      
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