16 bit and 8 bit issues

I have no idea whats going on. I feel like an idiot (no comments from the peanut gallery ).

I normally edited my images in 16bit , or so I thought. Lately when I upload my images to Wordpress, and flickr, etc... I notice my colors are SUPER greyed out. NOT at all what I edited in PS. I noticed that now when I open a file in CS5 , it autmatically opens as an 8bit even though I could have sworn I saved at a 16 bit. HELP! I have no idea whats going on, and Im worried that this will cause printing issues. I have never had an issue before and have no clue what happened and why all of a sudden this is happening. TIA!

Convert to sRGB for web: http://www.getcolorman​aged.com/color-management/saveforweb/

You set how a CR2 is opened in the blue "url" in the bottom of the ACR window:

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Hi Cortney,

Before you open an image you've been editing (i.e. a TIFF or similar), check what bit depth your computer's operating system believes the file to be i.e. 8 bit or otherwise. Then open that file in Photoshop and see what it thinks. JPGs are 8 bit per channel, as mentioned above.

Steve.

RebelChick wrote in post #12976905
I have no idea whats going on. I feel like an idiot (no comments from the peanut gallery ).

I normally edited my images in 16bit , or so I thought. Lately when I upload my images to Wordpress, and flickr, etc... I notice my colors are SUPER greyed out. NOT at all what I edited in PS. I noticed that now when I open a file in CS5 , it autmatically opens as an 8bit even though I could have sworn I saved at a 16 bit. HELP! I have no idea whats going on, and Im worried that this will cause printing issues. I have never had an issue before and have no clue what happened and why all of a sudden this is happening. TIA!

Maybe you could be more specific as to what you are doing. When you say "when I open a file in CS5 , it autmatically opens as an 8bit even though I could have sworn I saved at a 16 bit.", what software were you using to save as a 16 bit? And then, in Photoshop, what exactly are you doing?

Real simple - to keep the image in 16 bit it has to be saved as a tif or psd. As said, jpgs are always 8 bit.

8 bits are plenty enough for on-screen viewing and/or printing.

tzalman wrote in post #12977271
Real simple - to keep the image in 16 bit it has to be saved as a tif or psd. As said, jpgs are always 8 bit.

8 bits are plenty enough for on-screen viewing and/or printing.

Thanks everyone! I think I was confusing my RAW files and my JPG files. But then answer me this. WHY all of a sudden are my images getting dumbed down in Flickr and on Wordpress (but when uploaded to FB and saved on a disc they are perfectly fine ?) I have NEVER had this issue and am super confused. TIA!

Hmm, I don't know anything about Wordpress. Flickr allows you to have bigger files, but for a "normal" view they like most hosts will "shrink" the image to fit the view. I've heard complaints from people about various hosts, it seems I've heard less about Flickr. But Facebook does not have a good rep for the quality of their downsizing. So, if I'm going to post an image in Facebook it will be resized to require little if any resizing in FB. In practice, I frequently just use the "normal view" copy in my regular image host PBase to load into FB.

It probably has to do with the embedded color profile. Use the Save for Web feature in Photoshop (going from the RAW to jpg, not just resaving the jpg) and that should help.