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

[Simon Budig <simon budig de>]

Patrick Shanahan (ptilopteri gmail com) wrote:
> * 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.

It does. And 32bit. And 16/32/64 bit float. And linear light as well as
perceptual light.

Bye,
        Simon
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