Image Properties dialog limited to 10000 pix width

[Pablo d'Angelo]

Hi Boudewijn,

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> It's actually a topic we're debating right now for Krita: the image properties 
> dialog sets, as I explained, the projection -- but you're not the only one 
> confused. The thing is this: you can have layers of different colorspaces in 
> one Krita image, and the projection determines how the image is rendered.

As you might have guessed, I haven't read any documentation about krita
before starting.. ;-)

I'm not familar with internals of krita, so I don't know how merging of
different layers is handled. My first guess from your explanations is that
upon rendering (and saving to non native formats) the pixels are converted
into the "projection color space" and the merging takes place in that
colorspace?

Another possibility would be that composition is done in a colorspace that
is a superset of all layer colorspaces, and converted down to the image
colorspace afterwards.

Well, logically this feature belongs into the image dialog, however it needs
some more thinking since many users will probably don't know/have forgotten
that krita supports layers with different types.

> The options are:
> 
> * Keep it this way, adding a little bit to the learning curve.

Maybe with some additional description like "final colorspace" or
"projection colorspace", or something along these lines might make this a
bit more clear to users that forget about the layer issues etc.

I was only editing a single layer, in that case the projection colorspace
could be fixed to the layer colorspace.

> * Remove the option to set the colorspace from the image properties dialog and 
> always use the colorspace of the background or bottom-most layer. Make the 
> the colorspace of hte image a read-only label in the image properties dialog. 
> This removes a bit of flexibility, but is easier to grasp.
> 
> * Move the option to set the image's native colorspace to the color conversion 
> dialog. Make the the colorspace of hte image a read-only label in the image 
> properties dialog

Hmm, might be a better solution, since then the user has to choose which
colorspace he wants to change. Maybe a radio button to select between
"convert all layers" and "final image colorspace" would be enough?

Btw. which rendering intents are used for the conversion into the image
color space?

ciao
  Pablo