diff --git a/docs/handbook/concepts.rst b/docs/handbook/concepts.rst index 66eeaf6f8..a9b33e437 100644 --- a/docs/handbook/concepts.rst +++ b/docs/handbook/concepts.rst @@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ Pillow also provides limited support for a few additional modes, including: * ``BGR;24`` (24-bit reversed true colour) * ``BGR;32`` (32-bit reversed true colour) -However, Pillow doesn’t support user-defined modes; if you need to handle band +Apart from these additional modes, Pillow doesn't yet support multichannel +images with a depth of more than 8 bits per channel. + +Pillow also doesn’t support user-defined modes; if you need to handle band combinations that are not listed above, use a sequence of Image objects. You can read the mode of an image through the :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.Image.mode`