[CREATE] Linear light workflow

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 29 March 2012 Mar, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> Andrew Chadwick <a.t.chadwick at gmail.com> schrieb:
> >On 28 March 2012 17:08, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> >> I tested today in krita -- it's a little known thing that Krita
> >supports a linear-light workflow perfectly well. Basically, it's a
> >matter of using the right icc profile to define the working space and
> >the example Andrew showed just works in Krita.
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be easier to just define the working space with a profile
> >in openraster, and take it from there?
> >
> >This is drifting a little far away from a discussion of compositing op
> >gamma, but just to remark that colourspaces can already be
> >encapsulated in each individual PNG layer graphic, and should probably
> >be used for conversion into whatever internal working space is used by
> >the program if they're specified. If you add another top-level
> >profile, you'd have to define which one takes precedence for a given
> >layer PNG...
> 
> exactly
> 

I might be missing something here... But isn't the potential for confusing much bigger in the case where there's no clear definition of the image's color space? Krita actually doesn't have an internal working space, gegl does have one, but it differs from MyPaint's again.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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