2 Replies Latest reply: Jun 30, 2013 10:40 AM by MichelBParis RSS

    Photoshop Elements 16 bit/ProPhoto RGB  ?

    LJH Community Member

      At this point in time I don't believe PSE10 or indeed 11 supports 16 bit working or ProPhoto RGB. This is an issue when transferring images from Lightroom for editing in Layers etc. I currently use Photoshop CC for this purpose, which is great but to be honest complete overkill for my purposes. PSE would be absolutley spot in if it could handle editing in 16 bit and/or ProPhoto RGB.

       

      Can anyone shed any light on future releases of PSE and if/when this functionality will be included.

       

      I know these facilities aren't there at the moment.

       

      Thanks.

        • 1. Re: Photoshop Elements 16 bit/ProPhoto RGB  ?
          dj_paige Community Member

          Can anyone shed any light on future releases of PSE and if/when this functionality will be included.

          Only Adobe knows for sure, not any one of us here in the forum

           

          Nevertheless, if I had to guess, I would say that Adobe wants to differentiate its products, and so it provides its top of the line features only in its top of the line software.

          • 2. Re: Photoshop Elements 16 bit/ProPhoto RGB  ?
            MichelBParis Community Member

            LyndonPshop wrote:

             

            At this point in time I don't believe PSE10 or indeed 11 supports 16 bit working or ProPhoto RGB.

            16 bits : PSE10 and PSE11 support 16 bits, except for layers and local tools.

            Both can handle native Prophoto files. Just try it with Prophoto files from Lightroom. You are limited to sRGB or aRGB if you are working from your camera's raws or jpegs directly in PSE, but since you have Lightroom, you don't miss anything.

            But the real answer is that advanced Elements users without LR do use the ACR module, which works in 16 bits and Prophoto (from raws or jpegs). Nearly all adjustments where 16 bits is important to avoid posterization can be done in ACR. Anyway all your output devices (display or printer) will require 8 bits and sRGB or aRGB.