How come I can't choose 48-bit color palette and color picker when editing a 48-bit RGB image?
Akyhne said: How come I can't choose 48-bit color palette and color picker when editing a 48-bit RGB image?
48 bit is not a color palette, it is a bit depth. I.E. all RGB color models in 48 bit images are 48 bit.
David Milisock said:48 bit is not a color palette, it is a bit depth.
This is an interesting question, though not one I've ever thought to ask before seeing this post.
Although the image has a 48 bit depth, I don't see a tool to specify or measure the colour of a pixel in that image, beyond the 24th bit. The eyedropper and the tools that set colour values still offer only RGB values from 0 to 255, even though 48 bit ought to support colour values from 0 to 64K in each colour.
The color management in a system is most of the times over my head . I sincerely keep trying and now have started understanding a very very little bit and that too not the technical details but something that helps me in my real life jobs. Thank you Gennady and David.
Well, that's exactly my point. You can't choose more than 24 bit color. because it is only in 24 bit.
If you create a custom image in 48-bit 2550px width * 200px height and make a fill from right to left with color black to white, you will get 10px in width with each of the 255 grayscale colors. It's not true 48-bit!
harryLondon said:, even though 48 bit ought to support colour values from 0 to 64K in each colour.
With the level of color understanding out there can you imagine how confusing that would be? The future may well see your concept.