Me wrote:

Operations that can be done with PS elements while in 16 bit colour mode
were very limited last time I looked at it - so if fully editing in 16
bit colour-space is needed, then full price PS is also needed.

Not quite true. You do what you can at 16 b (which is not 'very'
limited, just some ops/filters are 8b). Convert to 8 b for the
remaining steps. Imperfect. But not as imperfect as gimp (at present).

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