About vectorization and planar channels in Krita

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Thu Oct 25 17:28:11 UTC 2012


On Thursday 25 October 2012 Oct, Andre Gemuend wrote:
> Hi Boudewijn,
> 
> > The previous maintainer of Krita always intended to make Krita work with pre-multiplied alpha -- but I never really understood how to make that properly work given lots of independent layers. I don't think other open source graphics apps use pre-multiplied alpha either, but I'm not completely sure of that. Do you know of one?
> 
> well, yes, Gimp for example, and Photoshop, as far as I know.

I don't know about photoshop -- but from what I read from gimp code way back, it was also using a discrete alpha channel, as far as I could tell?

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Boudewijn Rempt
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