From: earlcp@idirect.com   
      
   free10@webtv.net :   
      
   > 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   
      
   Infact BeOS has support the use of floating point in the colour componments.   
   While I don't know if any program use it to store pictures it is possible to   
   write a program in BeOS (other OSs too but easyier in BeOS) where all the   
   data is stored in floats.   
      
   If my skills improve enought maybe I try writting a simple program.  Still at   
   the moment it looks like my time would be better spent writing a driver that   
   supports printers like your's.  Don't assume that no such driver will not   
   come along.   
      
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