Irfanview color depth

[Peter]

In Irfanview, you can Decrease Color Depth to any level but how can you
either increase it or figure out what the current color depth is set to?

[David Taylor]

Post by Peter
In Irfanview, you can Decrease Color Depth to any level but how can you
either increase it or figure out what the current color depth is set to?

Image menu, Information.

[Shinji Ikari]

Hello

Post by Peter
In Irfanview, you can Decrease Color Depth to any level but how can you
either increase it or figure out what the current color depth is set to?

Did you try pressing the key: i (= Information)?

[Peter]

Post by Shinji Ikari
Did you try pressing the key: i (= Information)?

The Irfanview "i" key brings up a table showing the compression, original
size, current size, print size from DPI, original colors, current colors,
number of unique colors (with "auto count" being checked, whatever that
means).

It looks like the color depth is the "current colors" but how do you get
rid of the other color-related entropy bits when you reduce color depth?

(Sorry for duplicate posts - it's what Eternal September sometimes does.)

[JJ]

In Irfanview, ...
... figure out what the current color depth is set to?

Look at the first column of the application window statusbar. It should
display something like e.g.:

1280 x 720 x 24 BPP

That "BPP" is an acronym for Bits Per Pixel. i.e. the color depth.