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on Bit Depth Pixels, which make up a monitor's screen to display an image, are made up of bits. The more bits that are contained in the pixel, the greater the bit depth. The greater the bit depth, the more colors can be displayed at one time. This is also true of a graphics file. Bit depth of a graphics file indicates the amount of color in that file. As you might expect, greater bit depth brings greater file size. A 4" x 5" RGB photo (24-bit depth) will have a bigger file size than a grayscale image (8-bit depth) of the same size and resolution. Below is a chart that shows how many colors and bits are contained in
each of the electronic color modes. The number of channels refers to the
number of "plates" of color that a file contains.
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"bit"
in computer language refers to the smallest amount of information that
a computer can understand. It is an electronic pulse that contains one
of two characters. It contains either a 1 or a 0 and can either signal
on or off. Bit depth refers to the number of bits found in a graphics
file or that can be displayed on a monitor. 
