Re: [Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-02-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 21:51 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: * Elementary load/save support for formats that support higher bit depths such as PNG, TIFF and OpenEXR. As far as I can see GEGL does not have a TIFF load and save operation yet. So anyone who is interested in being able to load

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-01-31 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, there are two issues with your patch that we should try to solve. The first is that your approach doesn't follow the roadmap we've set for this. Our decision was not to introduce high bit depths before we haven't changed all tools, all core operations and at least provide an API for plug-ins

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-01-27 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:53:54 Martin Nordholts wrote: Hi I have attached a patch to Bug 74224 – Add support for 16 bits per channel [1] that makes it possible to use GIMP for opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs using the operations under the Colors menu that

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Hal V. Engel hven...@astound.net I think Martin's proposal has merit. I know that comparisons to Photoshop are to some extent considered off topic here but in this case I will do it because the history of Photoshop has some parallels. The approach that Martin is advocating (IE.

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-01-27 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Hal V. Engel hven...@astound.net wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:53:54 Martin Nordholts wrote: Just curious. Since GEGL has support for more high bit depth formats than just 16 bit int/channel how much more work would be needed to support a wider For

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-01-27 Thread Martin Nordholts
Hal V. Engel wrote: Just curious. Since GEGL has support for more high bit depth formats than just 16 bit int/channel how much more work would be needed to support a wider range of formats? Support for 16 bits per channel implemented properly will give us at least any other RGB format we

[Gimp-developer] [Patch] Opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs

2009-01-25 Thread Martin Nordholts
Hi I have attached a patch to Bug 74224 – Add support for 16 bits per channel [1] that makes it possible to use GIMP for opening, color correcting and saving 16-bits-per-channel PNGs using the operations under the Colors menu that are ported to GEGL such as Color Balance or Levels. For a