Quick PS rant...

So I think it would be nice to be able to adjust the bit depth (8 bit/16 bit ect...) Directly within the Photoshop save dialog menu.

Any thoughts on why this would not be a good idea?

I'd heard that you can now, in CS5? I mean, save a 16-bit file as a jpeg.

Damo77 wrote in post #11536078
I'd heard that you can now, in CS5? I mean, save a 16-bit file as a jpeg.

Oh, i am on CS4...

Great! thanks for the info.

So am I, but that's what I'd heard.

In CS5 you can save directly to a jpg from a 16 bit file thus eliminating the need to go to the menus and change it to 8 bit before saving.

I know that question has been asked for years and I am pleased that Adobe finally got around to adding it to the most recent release of Photoshop. While CS5 has plenty of big ticket items that garnered lots of attention there are also smaller things like this that didn't much play in the release. It was however covered in the release notes and comparisons that was released when CS5 was first announced.