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I think that's just the way FF set it up to sell less expensive versions.....or get you to buy the professional version.....

I'm curious to know what FF charges to upgrade a restricted version to the full professional version.....if you have to pay the full price on top of what you already paid for the restricted version???

You get to use the demo restriction-free for 30 days.....and FF has been granting two extra 30 day time extensions for those who are actively contributing filters.....for a total of 90 days of unrestricted use.....

I think it's a pretty good promo scheme to get filters for the library......while giving people a good chance of getting a free copy......

When FF was originally introduced, there was only one edition -- Professional, offered at the same price it has now. Of course, we recognized that the price tag might look to steep for users that can live without those extras, so we went along and introduced limited versions that still should do most of the jobs (not many people do 16/32-bit image processing or work with 10000x10000 images on everyday basis for example), at a (greatly) reduced cost.

Well, if you don't need 16-bit PNGs you should be able to save to 8-bit ones. They will do just fine for most of the cases.

I could render out a 16 bit png and you could compare.

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sipahi wrote: What do I do wrong.. I have downloaded the trial version. And when using it in Photoshop and when I click the button named "Download More Filters" I am beeing sent back to this homepage with no download options or buttons.. what am I doing wrong??

Click on the filter you like from the library, then click the big "open in filterforge" button on the right side of the web page.
Then you will have it in your version of FF on your machine.

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Kraellin wrote: omega3, for the most part you wont need 16 bit. it is slightly better, but you really wont see the quality increase until you start working with VERY large images and file sizes.

Now, there is a difference in saving a graphic with an alpha channel (being 32 bits/pixel - 8 red, 8 green, 8 blue, and 8 alpha) rather than having a 16 bit/channel image (16 red, 16 blue, 16 green), which is where the limitation in FF is, I believe.

Not only is that true, but if you're going to switch that to JPG essentially ever, it's worthless to work in 16 bit. Even Photoshop CS3 has limited support for 16 bit/channel operations, and you can't save a JPG out at 16 bit (yet, anyway).

I can say that I've worked in 16 bit/channel about... oh, twice in the last couple of years for my day to day stuff.

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Kraellin wrote: does .jpg2000 save in 16 bit?

It should. There's some weirdness with 16 bit jpgs in general, but 2000 was supposed to fix that. The bigger weirdness is that JPG2000 is still a shaky format, and unsupported in a lot of software. Even Photoshop CS3 won't support it without a plugin (optional install on the disk.)

Also, a jpg ghost story: In Photoshop CS2 (and CS3, presumably) you can't save a 16 bit JPG, BUT you can save a 8 bit jpg, upsample it to 16 bit, and then save it... and you'll never be able to open it again. Ooooooo!