On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 15:38 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > >> what I first of all think is that the channels dialog needs to be >> split in two: a channels dialog and a stored-selections dialog. > > Having them in one dialog is admittedly somewhat confusing, but it is an > established standard for pixel manipulation programs. I don't think we > should change that. It would only waste space. > Though just because photoshop does it that way doesn't make it the best way. It seems to be a hugely confusing area for ps users, too. It wasn't until I started digging into the PDB that I discovered that channels are just greyscale drawables, and handled as such the software. I think that all of the "channel" use cases should be examined before deciding how these should act. My own experience with channels is limited to: 1) Image decomposition for masking/converting to greyscale 2) Saved selections Possibly because that is all the gimp documentation talks about... In the glossary, http://docs.gimp.org/en/glossary.html#glossary-channels and http://docs.gimp.org/en/glossary.html#glossary-masks it refers to these two uses. Sven mentioned other uses, like spot colour and halftoning. I can't find any references on using gimp channels for spot colour, in fact google only finds me claims that a weakness of gimp is that it does NOT support spot colours. -Rob A> _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
