Re: [Gimp-user] 16-Bit images to 8 bit images

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri gmail com>]

* Enrique Betancourt <fis ebetancourt gmail com> [11-30-16 17:07]:
> Hello my name is Enrique, I am student from the Masters Degree Program in
> Medical Physics of the National Politechnic Institute in Mexico City.
>
> I work with lots of medical images, creating algorithms to perform
> authomatic segmetation of organs. Actually i'm working with liver
> segmetation on children. I use Gimp to normalize my images but since they
> are on 16-bit Gimp authomaticaly convert them in 8-Bit, but as expected i
> loose data on that step.
>
> Can you help me to understand how does Gimp perform this conversion? It
> will help me a lot :D.

currently published gimp is 8-bit, not 16 and does not operate/save except
8-bit.  I believe unstable 2.9+ (or 2.10) does 16-bit.

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