Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
A quantum depth of 8 is 8 bits-per-pixel component (each of red, green, blue, etc). Most image formats are 8-bits. The only problem you might have is if you try to process a 16 bit image, you will lose some color precision.
