[thelist] Creating images with 16-bit color depth

[Marcus Andersson]

Background: I'm producing an application for a digital tv set-top-box (STB). The STB has a color depth of 16 bits.

Problem: I need to produce graphics for this platform where the designer can work as normal as possible (ie 
using Flash Studio in this case and producing true color images) and then have some tool that takes an image 
(that we extract from the flash movie automatically, we (almost) already have a solution for this part) with 
true color (png or jpg) and converts it to 16 bits (with some loss of course). Do such a tool exist? If not, 
is there any editor that fulfills the requirements? I've done some testing with Photoshop, but I'm not an 
expert, rather the opposite, so I haven't come up with a solution there.

Thanks,

/Marcus

ps. I'm not an image format expert nor a Photoshop expert, I'm a programmer.