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Originally Posted by Angel_Light
ON the 8 bit standards though, I though 24bit cant have since 8 bits are for each Color (Red, Green, Blue) and an additional 8 bits for alpha which would make it 32 bit, am I correct or am I missing something?
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Varying bit-depths are not static, they're logarithmic. Each color (RGB) doesn't occupy entire an octet, they occupy a entry in the bit set.
Bit
....07
..06
..05
..04 03
..02
..01
..00
Data
...R
....R
...R
...G
...G
...G
....B
...B