Color depth

Color Depth
Color Depth refers to the number that a given pixel is assigned in a photograph. The number that a pixel is assigned determines the color of the pixel.

Color Depth
Color Depth describes the number of bits used to represent a color in any given digital medium. The higher the color depth, the broader range of distinct colors.
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Color depth. The number of bits assigned to each pixel in the image and the number of colors that can be created from those bits. True Color uses 24 bits per pixel to reneder 16 million colors.

Color Depth - Number of bits for each pixel in an image. The higher the bit depth, the greater number of colors there are. This is also sometimes referred to as bit depth.

Color Depth
The number of distinct colors that can be represented by a piece of hardware or software. Color depth is sometimes referred to as bit depth because it is directly related to the number of bits used for each pixel.

Color Depth - Digital images can approximate color realism, but how they do so is referred to as color depth, pixel-depth, or bit depth. Modern computer displays use 24-bit True Color.

Color Depth
Each pixel's designated number of bits in a picture and how many colors those bits create. At 24 bits per pixel, True Color can deliver 16 million colors.
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Color depth is simply the number of bits used to represent a color (bits per pixel : bpp). There are 3 channels for a pixel (for Red, Green and Blue). GIMP can support 8 bits per channel, referred as eight-bit color.

Color Depth
When you view a natural scene you are able to distinguish millions of colors. A digital image can approximate this color realism, but how well it does so depends on your camera and the settings you choose.

Color Depth - See "Bit Depth."

Composition - The arrangement of the elements within a scene (main subject, secondary subjects, foreground and background).

Color depth has nothing to do with shadow detail or color accuracy.
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Main article: Color depth
The number of distinct colours that can be represented by a pixel depends on the number of bits per pixel (bpp). The maximum number of colors a pixel can take can be found by taking two to the power of the color depth.

Features: Create and edit icons in either standard or custom sizes, in color depths up to 16 million colors.

Also referred to as color depth, bit-depth determines the maximum number of shades or intensities of colors that can be represented at a time.

Each camera's sensor is measured for color depth (which indicates how smooth the transitions are between colors), dynamic range (the range of visible detail in shadows through bright highlights in the same scene), and low-light ISO.

Scan at the highest bit depth possible: 16-bits per channel or 48-bits in total color depth, if available. This way your digital original can withstand more retouching before it begins to show signs of posterization.
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To check and adjust your monitor's gamma level and color depth settings click on the following link to see a Gamma and Color Settings Check Chart.

With TIFF and JPEG files, this information is processed and embedded into the image file 'in-camera' to produce finished files with 8-bit color depth; NEF files capture and store this data in 12-bit color depth.

I have always assumed( I guess in error) That a image taken with a proper exposure (generally Centered on the histogram) would produce the same proper Color depth at all shutter speeds.

Recently, some new DSLRs have been released that provide fourteen bits of color depth. This is good news. However, not necessarily for all of the reasons that some photographers think.

The article made it sound like the photodiodes could be either on or off, which would result in a color depth of 1 bit. The Sensors are in fact not completely digital.

Increased luminosity also increases color depth
(saturation), edge definition (clarity) and light-to-shadow radio (contrast). Increased light also
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They are limited to 8-bit color depth, while raw images can have 12-14 bit information. More color depth allows finer color gradations
Inaccurate white balance can degrade JPEG image quality
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also called pixel depth or color depth--measures how much color information is available to display or print each pixel in an image.

True Color - A 24-bit color depth. See bit depth for more information.
TWAIN - A standardized interface that allows software to communicate with scanners and digital cameras.

Two, it has a higher color depth (more on this in a future tutorial). Three, it gives you some control over exposure and total control over "white balance" (addressed later in the tutorial) even after the shot.

If your scanner doesn't capture the subtle differentiations between grays (in black-and-white scans) and between colors (in color scans), then this information from the original is lost. This differentiation ability is called color depth or bit depth.

Binary - Base-two arithmetic, which uses only 1's and 0's to represent numbers. 0001 represents 1 decimal, 0010 represents 2 decimal and so forth. Binary numbers are used indirectly to refer to color depth, as in 24-bit or 8-bit color.

To achieve a good "gamma calibration" of your monitor, please follow the steps outlined below. You should also have a system capable of producting 16-bit (high color) or 24-bit (true color) color depth.

See also: Color, Image, Digital, Camera, Pixel