Scripsit Simon Budig <simon@xxxxxxxx> > Henning Makholm (henning@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> I don't really care whether it is duplicated in GEGL or outside it, as >> long as the net effect of "don't let my editing result in pixel colors >> outside this small predeterined palette" is still attainable with the >> sum of GEGL + futureGimp. > I wonder if a "quantize to palette" Gegl Op would solve these problems. It would work for me, if the surrounding application allowed me to set as a layer or image property that I want that operation to be applied _immediately_ for each drawing operation I do. > I am pretty positive that these problems could be sorted out when we > know what people working with palette-based images want to have. I am > just guessing on the needs here... My concrete need is that I edit bitmaps with a specific color convention - they can be seen e.g. at <http://dk.trackmap.net/a>. I use a system of ad-hoc software to convert the bitmap source to the vector versions linked to below the image; this software depends on the exact colormap in the picture, because different colors should be vectorized in different ways. [Before someone asks: yes, I have considered using a vector tool as the master editing format, but I have not found one whose user interface fits my way of working as well as Gimp does]. Now, when I edit in indexed mode I am sure that I don't accidentally give a pixel a color that is off the expected one by a delta that is too small for me to see. For example I sometimes accidentally select the airbrush or pen tool and draw something. I may not notice this until later, when it is too late to undo automatically, but at least with the implicit quantization it is immediately clear to me which pixels I need to repair manually. If I had worked in RGB mode I would need to wonder whether I had accidentally airbrushed something from 255/255/255 to 252/252/252, which is impossible to see by eye. Essentially, indexed mode helps me by making sure that what I see is all I get. And does it *while* I edit: doing a separate quantization step at the end of my work and then going over all of the image in zoomed mode to look for glitches would be seriously bothersome. -- Henning Makholm "*Vi vil ha wienerbrød!*" _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
