Bit depth + color space conversions after output sharpening?

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Will_Rees
Aug 1, 2007
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I’ve got a Photoshop action that I use to resize and sharpen for the web. This action also preps the image by converting it from 16 to 8 bits and converting it from whatever color space it was in to sRGB.

So, given that sharpening, converting bits and converting the color space are the last three image manipulation steps in my action, is there an order to them that would yield the best results?

For instance, I currently use:

(other stuff including resizing)
Sharpen for output
Convert color space
Convert bit depth
(save as jpeg)

and I’m fine with the results. I’m just curious if this order is theoretically optimal and if so, why.
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Peter_Figen
Aug 1, 2007
In theory there might be an advantage to moving to 8 bit after everything else, but in practice it really won’t matter at all. Try it yourself and see.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Aug 2, 2007
Your method is the same as I use (not sure if that was the answer you were looking for).

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