Tuesday, April 8, 2008

PhotoShop color mode choices

I probably won't include these on this Friday's Photography quiz, but they're important to know if you want to have a quality image with good bit-depth;
  • RGB- Red, Green, and Blue, 256 shades of the three main colors, most comon for JPEGs
  • Indexed colors- locked in to a table of web-frioendly colors, best for GIFs
  • CYMK- Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and blacK, traditional printer's colors (often TIFFs)
  • Greyscale- Nice, deep 8 bit black and white, producing a good 256 shades, good old "black and white" photography
  • 4 Bit black and white- Maybe a couple of shades of gray plus black and white- looks really graphic like a poster or something.
  • 2 Bit- ONLY black and white with no in between, what we used to call "line art"

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