Re: why is 32 bit image setting making such a difference?

AB Sauers wrote:
With the latest Photoshop's ability to work somewhat with 32 bit images, as
an experiment, I decided to convert all planetary 8 and 16 bit images I had
from the past to 32 bit, apply unsharp masking and see what would happen.
To my surprise, these converted images seem to be able to take, in some
cases, quite a bit more sharpening at 32 bit before noise and highlights
become problematic. In fact, I have been able to significantly clear up
several images simply by converting from 8 bit to 32 bit and then unsharp
masking carefully. My question is, why is this? I always figured that once
an 8 or 16 bit image was saved that converting up to a higher bit was just a
waste of space and of no benefit, but yet I am seeing results.

Even if the original camera data is 8 or 16 bit, the higher resolution enables
the image processing calculations to work at higher resolution, so the output
data can contain pixel levels intermediate between the quanta of the input image.

-dave w
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