* Adam D. Moss <adam@xxxxxxxx> [030311 23:38]: > Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: > >Would just antierase users be happy with layers masks? This feature is > >ignored a lot, and I think it does the same, you hide and unhide areas > >as you want, keeping the colour info. If yes, get rid of antierase. > > One weak reservation I have (I mention it in case no-one else has > considered it) would be that although layer masks are fine and > beautiful and good, and XCF files are the one true GIMP > intermediate-save working-format and they save fine and intact, > one day you might be handed a (for example) raw .sgi file in RGBA > and for some reason be expected to do the resurrect-colour trick, > but to no avail. > > I'm keen on both: > 1) No, really, don't expect me to do that. > 2) The situation is unlikely anyway. > > its vector outline being placed in a path. I can't think of a > reason for someone to be handed a foreign RGBA file known > to not be pre-multiplied, and need to resurrect its RGB data > (except out of curiosity). But... PNG files stored by GIMP (at least) have resurrectable data, If you've got blue compoany logo that is supposed to be used on the web as an image with transparency to make it blend into the background it would make sense to make the whole image solid blue, and only store the shape in the alpha channel. I did some testing wrt to compressed file size using png and here are my results (default options and compression level=9 with png), and the results suggest that for nitpicky size optimization of PNG images one would want to have acces to the RGB values of completly transparent pixels. (images are at http://hnb.sourceforge.net/.files/pngtest/ ) 0_alpha_is_black.png 7526 - bytes 0_alpha_is_blue.png 6836 - bytes I also ran the files through pngcrush which recompresses png files by trying various strategies, (the rgb data of pixels with alpha==0 is unchanged) 0_alpha_is_blue_crush.png 5018 - bytes 0_alpha_is_black_crush.png 5162 - bytes and finally the file containing just the rgb data when the background is black: rgbdata.png 2482 -- .^. /V\ Øyvind Kolås, Gjøvik University College, Norway /(_)\ <oeyvindk@xxxxxx>,<pippin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ^ ^
