The color depth of a picture is, in simple terms, the number of colors displayed in the picture. Working with color depth can increase or decrease the size of the picture. There are several ways to define it.
Instructions
Step 1
The first and easiest step is purely visual perception. One-bit, eight-bit, sixteen-bit, and thirty-two-bit pictures will differ in saturation. One-bit, or monochrome, drawing consists of two colors - black and white. No shades of gray in between. When viewed from a distance, the image may appear to have gray colors, but at maximum magnification, you will see that this gray tint is created from alternating black and white pixels.
Step 2
An eight-bit pattern has a spectrum of two hundred and fifty-six colors. In order not to draw long analogies, remember the image that was on the games of the Dendy console. The presence of colors does not give smooth transitions.
Step 3
A sixteen-bit image can consist of a maximum of sixty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-six colors. Now you can remember the Sega prefix with its image. The presence of a large number of colors makes the picture as close as possible to normal visual perception. If such an image contains rather contrasting colors, it can be confused with 32-bit. However, the transitions from hue to hue will be stepped and not smooth. The 16-bit palette was often used on Windows 9x computers.
Step 4
A 32-bit image can have 4294967296 colors. This is the color depth that is closest to natural color reproduction.
Step 5
There are also other values: 12, 24, 36, 48 bits. To see the exact value of the depth, go to the image properties, the "Details" tab, the line "Color depth".
