How to find all my 16 bit images

[Hector Vera]

Are the 8 and 16 bit images different file formats from the others? On a Windows Folder, you can right click a white space to open the menu, select “Sort By” and choose by size. Pretty much all 16 bit images should have more megabytes of space than 8 bits since they have more pixels and takes more data. If like your 16 bit images are PNGs for example and 8 bits are maybe jpeg for example, you can easily seperate the two and know which is which.

Here is a link I found that can also help you identify them better: https://shotkit.com/8-bit-vs-16-bit/ Hope that this helps! 🙂

[Dave Rogers]

Thank you for your reply, unfortunately, it doesn’t solve the problem. I have many hundreds of tiff files some single layers others with many layers, some 8 bit some 16 bit. Some of the 8 bit with multiple layers are larger than the 16 bit single layer files so sorting by file size does not isolate the 16 bit files. For what I need, 8 bit will suffice so I would like to convert the 16 bit files to 8 bit but I am looking for a program that will find all the 16 bit files.

[Hector Vera]

So you are looking for a program that will automatically help you find which files are 16 bits right? I will see what I can find since not sure if there is a specific app that will help find which are 16 bits. I’ll do some research and see if I can find anything. But going forward, if you get new Tiff files that you know if its 16 bits and 8 bits, you can start seperating them in folders so you know which are 16 bits and which are 8 bits images.

[Dave Rogers]

Thank you Hector