[ Ok, so I'm daring to repost my previuos mail again, which obviosly didn't make it...] I wrote a patch that might help fix the situation. First, I don't consider the current Color layer mode as broken. It is just different from what many users will expect. What I do consider broken, though, is that currently using GEGL delivers completely different results from 'classic' mode. The current Color mode uses HSL, the hue/saturation/value modes use HSV. GEGL uses LCH for all those modes. That means if you open an XCF file, it is not clear how to render it, as you don't know if they were created with GEGL view or not. (Which is why I would not consider http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325564 FIXED, rather it went from somewhat unexpected behaviour to broken) The patch introduces four new layer layer modes for Color/Hue/Saturation/Lightness, all using LCH/Lab space. (The result is slighly different from current GEGL though, I don't know why, yet.) About how to store in XCF: The obviuos choice seems to be to bump up the version to 3, which is what the patch currently does if one of the new modes is used. That might not be good, though: - Older versions will simply refuse to open the file. - With e.g. 2.6.8, you can still open a file with the new modes, it's just that the display will be a mess until you've set valid layer modes. While this won't allow you to render the image correctly, you can still *access* it, which might be valuable. I attached the patch to the abovementioned bugreport. I'd be glad to hear what you think, Cheers Rupert _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
