On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > GIMP's new LCH blend modes are wonderful. But trying to use these new blend > modes without the proper supporting tools is sort of like being given a new > Aston-Martin with a 35-mile-per-hour governor on the engine. > > To make the LCH blend modes truly useful GIMP needs: > > * an LCH Hue-Chroma tool. > * LCH color sliders added to the "Change Foreground Color" dialog. > * the Luminance blend mode in addition to the LCH Lightness blend mode. > > There are already more or less useable patches for the LCH Hue-Chroma tool > and LCH color sliders (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749902), > and for the Luminance blend mode > (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753163). > > Adding the LCH Hue-Chroma tool and LCH color picker sliders for GIMP 2.10, > right alongside the eventually-to-be-deprecated(?) HSV Hue-Saturation tool > and HSV color picker sliders, would allow GIMP users a chance to adapt to > LCH before HSV is summarily removed from the UI. Personally, I find darktable's Color Zones module [1] a far better alternative. It's more flexible, for instance. So _maybe_ it would be advisable to implement a new similar 'tool' that would use LCH from the very beginning. The dt's implementation already uses LCH [2]. [1] https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/images/darkroom/modules/colorzones.jpg [2] https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/master/src/iop/colorzones.c Alex _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
