diff --git a/docs/handbook/concepts.rst b/docs/handbook/concepts.rst index a9b33e437e3..f3fa1f2b1bb 100644 --- a/docs/handbook/concepts.rst +++ b/docs/handbook/concepts.rst @@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ To get the number and names of bands in an image, use the Modes ----- -The ``mode`` of an image is a string which defines the type and depth of a pixel in the image. -Each pixel uses the full range of the bit depth. So a 1-bit pixel has a range -of 0-1, an 8-bit pixel has a range of 0-255 and so on. The current release +The ``mode`` of an image is a string which defines the type and depth of a pixel in the +image. Each pixel uses the full range of the bit depth. So a 1-bit pixel has a range of +0-1, an 8-bit pixel has a range of 0-255, a 32-signed integer pixel has the range of +INT32 and a 32-bit floating point pixel has the range of FLOAT32. The current release supports the following standard modes: * ``1`` (1-bit pixels, black and white, stored with one pixel per byte) @@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ supports the following standard modes: * ``LAB`` (3x8-bit pixels, the L*a*b color space) * ``HSV`` (3x8-bit pixels, Hue, Saturation, Value color space) + + * Hue's range of 0-255 is a scaled version of 0 degrees <= Hue < 360 degrees + * ``I`` (32-bit signed integer pixels) * ``F`` (32-bit floating point pixels)