[Gimp-developer] Hard edged Ink tool?

[David Gowers]

On 8/29/06, Øyvind Kolås <pippin at gimp.org> wrote:
>
> > I am pretty positive that these problems could be sorted out when we
> > know what people working with palette-based images want to have. I am
> > just guessing on the needs here...
>
> Having an implied conversion to RGB on input of indexed drawables is
> the way GEGL will currently deal with such images.
> Adding an op that converts this to 8bit/16bit/32bit integer grayscale
> with a predefined, or optimally computed R,G,B palette is the natural
> progression. That op could be used before saving/as a step towards
> displaying data.
>
> This allows implementations of all other processing and compositing
> operations to be ignorant of indexed drawables, but is not an indexed
> workflow, it will not work when multiple of the
> original colors mapped to the same RGB triplet, but has a different
> interpretation.

I believe that last thing is a minor issue that should be addressable by an
output op; Certainly, actually editing with identical colors that have
different indices is unhelpful and confusing. Some kind of custom remapping
for a certain set of colors would probably be the way to go.
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