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A comment on The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management.

Re:The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management by dietrichepp on Monday November 03, 2014 @03:16AM (#8549833)
I had been waiting for a Photoshop / GIMP replacement for years, it seems that the GIMP developers dug themselves in a hole a while back with babl and GEGL and a number of good alternatives have cropped up in the meantime. My first problem with GEGL is that it seems to be the only way to reliably crash GIMP, and my second problem is that it doesn't serve to make any discernible workflow easier.

A nice workflow for photo editing involves conversion to 16-bit Lab, layers with various blending modes, and transfer curves. Due to the size of Lab, 8 bits are not enough and cause noticeable banding. Photoshop could do this back in the late 90s. According to this article, GIMP developers think the workflow is "wrong".

It's a good thing that we have Krita.

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Re:The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management by Sprint on Monday November 03, 2014 @10:02AM (#8551071)
Krita is awesome. But, and I know this will sound weird to many people, I am now so familiar with GIMP's UI and workflow, that I find changing difficult.
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Re:The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management by dr_zoidberg on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:07PM (#8559619)
Not weird at all, same here. I find it difficult to use other programs after 10+ years using GIMP!
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Re:The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management by prokoudine on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @07:21AM (#8561452)
> According to this article, GIMP developers think the workflow is "wrong".

https://git.gnome.org/browse/babl/tree/docs/roadmap.txt

"The user can create custom formats with any permutation of the components, using any of the (double float u8 u16 u8-luma u8-chroma u16 u32 and CIE Lab specific) data types in babl - or have new ones registered."

How is that plan any different from what you described?

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Re:The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management by pmoriarty on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:49AM (#8556079)
Lab curves for GIMP:

http://registry.gimp.org/node/24514

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Re:The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management by dietrichepp on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @02:19PM (#8563664)
Sadly, it doesn't look like it's capable of working with masks and layers.
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