* Daniel Egger <de@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > --Apple-Mail-35-297443358 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On 15.12.2004, at 20:16, William Skaggs wrote: > >> I've been thinking about three things that are highly desired but >> have been waiting for the migration to gegl: support for 16 bits, >> layer groups, and procedural layers. It seems to me that all of >> them can be achieved in GIMP 2 without major infrastructure changes, >> not perhaps in the most ideal way, but not in a kludgy way either. >> Given that the switch to gegl will probably entail a long development >> cycle, it may be worth considering what can be done in the meantime >> with GIMP 2. > > Why do you want to have 16 bits per channel when most if not all > tools will only work with the MSBs? Hey, I'd have 80% of my 16bit usage if only Layers and Curves supported this 16bit ability. Having said that, extra 8bit as integer is nothing but an band-aid, as most of more-than-8bit-depth fun is anything but 16bit integer. -- Psi -- <http://www.iki.fi/pasi.savolainen>
