On 23 Feb, Nick Lamb wrote:
Does this mean that you agree to ditching all the special code
for the 3 and 1 byte case as well? I'd really love to see this
changes although as already stated this might introduce a bit
memory overhead in case the user didn't use the alpha channel
at all.
On 22 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote:
We'll face one problem if we decide to make alpha the default for all
images: A lot of fileformats do not understand alpha and you actually
don't want to save the alpha channel with the image at all if you
never touched it. One way to solve this would be to
Zach,
I know you're trying to make a point, but I'd actually
agree with that assessment too, if for slightly
different reasons. The user has no way of knowing
what shade of gray they are about to place on the
image. I don't think this is used anywhere near as
commonly as layers/transparency,
