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Breaking it down into bit depth

Breaking it down into bit depth

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Breaking it down into bit depth

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- [Instructor] Let's start out with how bright a pixel is. Remember, while we're talking generally about images or even a stream of images making video, your camera, computer, and screen are all really thinking about individual pixels in a particular location in the image. So when we talk about things like bit depth, color mode, and so on, we're really talking about the rules that apply to each individual pixel. Bit depth simply means how many bits, that's our ones and zeros, are used to record how bright a pixel is, or how red, how blue, or green. And we'll get to color in the next lesson. For now, let's start out with the brightness. Each pixel has a number that defines how bright it is. We should start with what we mean by fully bright and fully dark. And there's a big debate about this that's ongoing, and it may never be resolved. But for now, let's just say there's an amount of brightness that's as bright as the pixel can be, and we'll call that fully on. Or as they would say in…

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