See here:
http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/docs/concepts.html"ImageJ allows multiple images to be displayed on the screen at one time. The active window has its title bar highlighted. All operations will be performed on the active image. ImageJ supports 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit (real) grayscale images and 8-bit and 32-bit color images. 8-bit images are represented using unsigned integers in the range 0 to 255. 16-bit images use unsigned integers (0 to 65,535) and 32-bit grayscale images use floating-point numbers."
I think 24-bit images are mapped to 32 bit images.
John Oreopoulos
On 2011-04-20, at 9:29 PM, Peter Game wrote:
> Hi
> I have opened a 24 bit image in ImageJ, but ImageJ reports it as being 32 bit.
> Irfanview, Xscan, Windows and Corel Photopaint all report the image to be 24-bit.
>
> I couldn’t find any link to report bugs on the ImageJ website, so I have decided to put it on the list server in the hope it gets to someone who can check it.
>
> Cheers
> Pete