[Gimp-developer] New color mode

[Martin Nordholts]

On 07/01/2009 08:21 PM, Emil Assarsson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Martin Nordholts<enselic at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Maybe the RGB ->  HSL conversion is buggy?
>>      
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> I don't see it as a bug... it's more of a problem. Gimp uses HSL(?)
> and PhotoShop /seems/ to use CIELAB for these operations.
>
> Any comments on this?
>    

If using a CIE Lab based color space for defining and implementing the 
color layer modes gives better looking and more intuitive results, than 
that is the color space we shall use.

A patch that uses CIE Lab (or CIE LCH?) for this when using GEGL would 
be much appreciated.

  / Martin