Chris Cox said:
Photoshop CS2 already has ICCV4 profile support.
I saw conflicting information about ICC4 support on various websites. I’ll admit that I didn’t scour the Adobe website for this info though.
And you can work with multigigabytes files in Photoshop now.
True, with the PSB file format you can work with files up to 100GB. And that’s plenty for now; but in the future, those who work with such large files might need more than 100GB.
So far, nobody has created any better HDR tonemapping algorithms than
what is already in Photoshop.
Many people prefer Photomatix’s HDR software but that’s just a matter of opinion.
BTW, what makes Photoshop CS2 the best at HDR tonemapping?
Why would anyone want 48 bits/channel? That’s a really bad number of
bits for a computer to work with!
There are some high end scanners that support 48 bits per channel. If Photoshop doesn’t need to support that, since the scanner driver will handle it, that’s fine, but it would be nice to support that segment of hardware, even if it’s a minority.
I thought 32 bit per channel is odd too… You’re working with 96 bits per pixel; Granted you can treat it as a nicely packed 32 bit bitmap that is 3 times as large. However 16 bit per channel gives you 48 bits, which is 6 bytes of data. Sounds like you still have to do bit padding for hardware efficiency.