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Is QImage able to open and render pure 16-bit images?

I think the headline already explains what I want to know.
Is there a possible way to open and save images with 16-bit with Qt? And I don't mean the 3*8=24bit or 4*8=32bit, what is quite the same as a pure 8-bit image, I mean pure 16-bit for R, G and B.

Solution

  • Contrary to what Patrice says, there is no 16 bits per component format in QImage. The most you can get is QImage::Format_ARGB32 at 8 bits per component. Even if you used 8 bits indexed mode, the color tables do not support more than 8 bits per component. Moreover, the QImageIOHandler class works in terms of QImage, so you cannot create a custom image format plug-in to work with 16 bits per color component, unfortunately.