the possible range of colors that can be used in a movie or image. There are four choices with video: gray scale - black, white, and shades of gray (8-bit) 256 colors (8-bit) thousands of colors (16-bit) millions of colors (24-bit) 256 colors uses a palette; none of the other color depths do.

Number of bits available for each pixel of a color for the classification of color values in red, green and blue. Eight bit, for example, allows for the differentiation of 256 hues for each of the three primarily colors and thus for the specification of millions of color tones.

The possible range of colors that can be used in a movie or image. There are generally four choices with computer graphics: grayscale, 8-bit, 16-bit, and 24-bit. Higher color depths provide a wider range of colors but require more space for a given image size. Broadcast video is almost always 24-bit, with 8 bits of color information per channel. See channels.

Indicates the number of bits per pixel used to store color information.

(pixel depth) : the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a raster image. The number of distinct colors that can be represented by a pixel depends on the color depth, i.e. the number of bits per pixel (bpp); common values are: 8 bpp (256 colors), 16 bpp (65,536 colors; known as highcolor), 24 bpp (16,777,216 colors; known as truecolor). raster image pixel bit

The number of possible colors that can be shown in a particular image. ex. an 8-bit image can represent 256 colors.

The number of colors that a monitor can display. Depends also on the video card being used. Values include 256, 64,000+ colors (called High Color or 16 bit color), 16 million+ colors (24 bit color), 4 billion colors (True Color or 32 bit color)

The number of bits used to represent colors or tones. An 8-bit image (24 bit depth) has 256 shades per color channel (red, green, blue). 256 (R) x 256 (B) x 256 (G) = 16.8 million colors. 8 bits per color channel = 24 bit depth (8 x RGB).

The color depth is the number of colors in your picture. Color depth is categorized by bit depth. If you use a deeper color depth, there are more colors in the picture, but a deeper color depth also increases your file size. • 1 bit - Black and white only• 8 bit - 256 shades of grayscale, or 256 colors• 16 bit - High Color, 65,536 colors• 24 bit - True Color, 16,777,216 colors• 32 bit - True Color, 4,294,967,296 colors

Number of colors in an image: 8-bit (256 colors), 16-bit (32,768 colors), and 24-bit (16.4 million colors).

The amount of bits that are assigned to each pixel in an image and also the amount of colors that are capable of being created from those bits.

The number of colors that a given video system can be displayed. The greater the number of bits-per-pixel that are used to store color, the higher the color depth.

Number of bits that defines the color of each pixel in a file; a 2-color bitmap contains 1 bit per pixel; a 16-color bitmap contains 4 bits per pixel; a 256-color bitmap contains 8 bits per pixel and so on.

Unit of measure for the number of bits of information stored per pixel. It denotes how much color information is available in the file or scanner. A larger color depth means that more colors can be represented correctly in the digitized image. A pixel with a color depth of 1 has two possible values: 1 or 0, on or off (black or white). A pixel with a color depth of 8 has 8 bits giving 256 possible values, and a pixel with a color depth of 24 has 24 bits or 16 million colors.

The number of bits per pixel for a screen or pixmap.

see Bit depth

The number of bits used to represent a color; 8-Bit color has a palette of 256 colors.

The color depth that the display of the visitors computer is configured to use. For example, 256 colors or millions of colors.

Color depth specifies the number of available colors on a computer. The higher the number, the more natural the colors in a picture will appear. Color depth is given in bits. 1 bit signifies 2 colors (black and white). A color depth of 8 bits results in 256 colors. The optimal value of 24 bits creates 16.7 million colors, which allows for pictures to be seen in photographic color quality. 24-bit color is also known as true-color imaging.

See pixel depth.

This is the system used to describe the range of colors and tones in a particular image measured by the number of colors displayed (e.g., 256 colors, or 16 million colors).

also referred to as bit depth or the number of colors contained in the image color table. If an image color table contains 256 colors that image would be an 8bit image. If the color table contains 2 colors, it would be a 1bit image. The more colors an image has, the more bit depth the it has - and the larger its file size.

the amount of color information in an image, reflected in the # of color bits compression, lossless scheme of organizing information in a more compact form where all of the original information is retained, while gaining a moderate level of compaction

Refers to the number of colors displayed to the monitor by the video card. The more colors used, the more realistic the display. With photographs, changing the computer's color depth may or may not help if the picture is limited to a small amount of colors. Common color depths are 256 colors, 16-bit (65,000 colors), 24-bit, and 32-bit (millions of colors). 24-bit and 32-bit are difficult to differentiate between, but 16-bit and particularly 256 colors will show a noticeable lack of quality or realism.

The number of levels of color (usually including luma and chroma) that can be represented by a pixel. Generally expressed as a number of bits or a number of colors. The color depth of MPEG video in DVD is 24 bits, although the chroma component is shared across 4 pixels (averaging 12 actual bits per pixel).

The number of distinct colors that can be represented by a piece of hardware or software. Color depth is sometimes referred to as bit depth because it is directly related to the number of bits used for each pixel. A 24-bit video adapter, for example, has a color depth of 2 to the 24th power (about 16.7 million) colors. One would say that its color depth is 24 bits. 32-bits color is 24 bit color with 8bits for the alpha channel.

Setting determining how many colors your monitor will display. Common settings include 256 Colors, High Color/Thousands of Colors, and True Color/Millions of Colors.

The number of bits used for each pixel in a monitor display. The more bits used, the greater the variety of colors that can be displayed.

The number of bits assigned to each pixel in the image and the number of colors that can be created from those bits. True Color uses 24 bits per pixel to reneder 16 million colors.

The number of colors per pixel your monitor and graphics adapter support.

Color depth is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel (bpp), particularly when specified along with the number of bits used. Higher color depth gives a broader range of distinct colors.