Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing Studio Techniques

Chapter 11. 32-Bit HDR Compositing and Color Management

	True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
	--Jean Cocteau (French director, painter, playwright, and poet)

Whether you are directly aware of limitations or not, you no doubt realize that there are limits to the ways images are processed and displayed on a computer. Your monitor likely only displays 8 bits of color per channel, and while its size (in pixel dimensions) has steadily increased over the last few years, this color depth limitation has hardly budged.

You may also be aware that although an After Effects project, by ...