Color Depth

[manzoor]

How Can i know the color depth of my image ?? How cAn i Adjust it?

 

[Avalanche]

Use irfanview (www.irfanview.com) It is a free image viewer, very fast and lightweight. Once you open the image in irfanview you can see the color depth on the bottom of the program (width x height x depth bpp), to change it go to Image - Increase / Decrease color depth.

 

[DefecTalisman]

What is meant by color depth? Is it the count of colors in an image?

 

[GamingX]

As Avalanche said Irfanview can be used since it is free and fast. Color depth usually has to do with either darkening or brightening a picture.

 

[DefecTalisman]

hmmm... is that not the light balance?

 

[manzoor]

Thanx Avalanche

 

[Avalanche]

As Avalanche said Irfanview can be used since it is free and fast. Color depth usually has to do with either darkening or brightening a picture.

I am sorry, but that is completely wrong. The color depth, also known as bits per pixel (bpp) is the ammount of unique colors in a picture. With modern image compression techniques an adaptive palette is used, which is usually based off 24bit color depth (even if only using 256 colors of that range).