Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-24 Thread David Gowers
Hi Maciej, On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Maciej Pilichowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > >> From: bgw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> How does "draw with transparency" differ from using eraser tool >> with x% opacity? > > Pencil and eraser are counterparts of course, but I wished for > transpar

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-24 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:03:43 David Gowers wrote: > This is because it violates the normal behaviour of alpha, which is > a specifier of opacity for a particular color; without a color, an > alpha value is meaningless. Like black color is a max.dark blue (or red, or even white)

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-24 Thread Chris Moller
Maciej Pilichowski wrote: > > So there is obstacle, indeed. And till now I have no idea how to solve > this. > Might be a bit of a wild branch on this topic, but I'm wondering if all the effects described here could be implemented as a /subtractive/ process. I haven't looked at gimp's impleme

Re: [Gimp-developer] [bug] incorrect math: adding/substracting empty selection deselects selection

2008-09-24 Thread Martin Nordholts
Maciej Pilichowski wrote: > Hello, > > I was asked to bring this issue to the ML instead of discussing it > on bugzilla so here we go. > > Original post: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549925 > > Hi Your suggestion makes sense so I've reopened the bug report and closed it as