myclay Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 (edited) It seems that 32bit TGA files are upon opening imported as 8bit images. which means, there is a lot of detail loss RGBA_Split_output_4.tga Edited December 17, 2018 by myclay made the title marked as solved Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | https://bansheebyte.artstation.com/store Windows 11 Pro - 22H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnobelix Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Hello @myclay, in Photoshop CC2019 will the RGBA split file, likewise as 8bit images loaded. Now the question arises is it a 32 bit image, is the RGBA_Split_output_4.tga the original 32 bit file? Cheers Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3447) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 Hello Gnobelix, it is the original file. Good question, windows is saying in file properties that it is indeed a 32bit file so the assumption was that it would be recognized as such. Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | https://bansheebyte.artstation.com/store Windows 11 Pro - 22H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnobelix Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 Hello myclay, I think I know why Affinity displays only 8 bits. Some programs calculate the color depth by adding per color channels, especially Windows. Each channel has 8 bits, in sum 24 bits, and if there is still an alpha channel, an additional 8 bits are added = 32 Bit. Affinity can not represent alpha channels, that can only Photoshop. I hope the answer is correct. Cheers PS. (JPG files are displayed in Windows with 24-bit color depth) Chris B and myclay 2 Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3447) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifred Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 5 hours ago, myclay said: It seems that 32bit TGA files are upon opening imported as 8bit images. which means, there is a lot of detail loss Sure that you don't mix up thing here? A simple 8bit per channel colour image with Alpha-channel sometimes gets referred to as a 32 bit image (4 times 8 bit). Without stored transparency values that tga is a 24 bit image (3 times 8 for RGB). A HDR image (which far more often gets referred to as a 32 bit image) has these 32 bit in each individual colour channel (resulting in a total value of 96). TGA does only support 8 bit colour depth per channel – the naming in the Explorer Details dialog is not exactly a happy choice. What may turn out even more irritating is that a hdr image shows up with just 24 bit depth – although this image stores millions of colour values your 32 bit tga can not deal with. Maybe someone can explain this – I believe the correct value had to be 96 here. Chris B and myclay 2 [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted December 17, 2018 Author Share Posted December 17, 2018 indeed I mixed up in a monumental way, the error has been clearly at my side, I got confused due to the properties numbers. Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | https://bansheebyte.artstation.com/store Windows 11 Pro - 22H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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