On 10 Mar 2003 at 5:33, Keith Whaley wrote: > I suspect "color depth" and "bit depth" are somehow different, but I > don't know how.
Colour depth generally refers to the cumulative number of bits that represent the individual colour components ie 24bit (red, green and blue) colour but the same colour depth could also be described as 3 x 8bit (8bits each of red, green, blue) or 16M+ (2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8) colours. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html Pentax user since 1986 PDMLer since 1998
