Pixel color depth or bits per pixel in digital photos - By: Carol Pruitt, 2009-01-06

Digital photos are built of many pixels. Each pixel has a unique value which represents its color. When you are looking at a digital photo your eyes and brain merge these pixels into one continuous digital photo. Each pixel has a color value that is one out of a finite number of possible colors – this number is known as color depth.

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