Dithering

Realsoft Graphics Oy		Dithering
	Post Image Effects

This effect adds dithering to the image. Most commonly used image standards use a limited amount of colors to represent images. The human eye is very accurate in detecting differences between colors and therefore even 16 million colors is not always enough. Dithering improves image quality by blending available colors.

The effect has following controls:

Red bits, Green bits, Blue bits: The suitable amount of dithering depends on the accuracy, which is used for storing the image. You can select the data type accuracy using these sliders. Value 8 is suitable for 24 bit output (16 million colors). Value 5 is suitable for 32 000 color output (16 bits).

Channel: The effect can be used for dithering any channel. Color channel is the usual target of dithering, but you can select another channel from this list.

	Note
	View window has its own dithering mechanism and the ray tracer output can also be dithered before post processing starts (while the data is still in accurate floating point form). Therefore dithering post effect is seldom needed.


Depth of Field		Edge Filter