Hi, Zachary Beane <xach@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > - Biased color reduction > > > > This is a feature I saw in photoshop. When reducing the colors of an > > image, it will try to preserve colors within the active selection > > more than it tries to preserve those outside of it. For example, if > > you want to keep skin tones in an image, but want to otherwise > > reduce the overall number of colors, you would select a few > > representative areas of skin before doing the reduction. > Personally, I can't count the number of times I've converted an image > to Indexed only to find the black had gone suddenly slightly > off-black, or another solid color that I really needed at a particular > value had suddenly shifted slightly. I'd love to be able to select > those colors before conversion to hint to the Indexed conversion, > "these exact values are important to me." Talked to Adam about that issue on #gimp lately and he seems to be biased towards changing the conversion-algorithm to be intelligent enough to do the right thing without user interaction. According to the latest ChangeLog entries, he seems to be actually working on this. Salut, Sven
