Floating point color in Krita

[Mikhail Lyossin]

On 11/17/06, Bart Coppens <kde at bartcoppens.be> wrote:
>
> On Friday 17 November 2006 17:44, Mikhail Lyossin wrote:
> > I think floating color representation is the best choice for all modes,
> > even if you work within 8bit or 16bit integer, the same color will have
> the
> > same numbers for the user. For example, pure red would always be
> > <1.0,0.0,0.0>, no matter of what mode you are using. As the other plus
> is
> > it's much better fit's artist mind that white is 1.0 and grey is 0.5then
> > some magic numbers like 255 or 65535.
> This could nicely complement the Color Picker's 'Show colors as
> percentages'
> option.


The better choice for all of  us would be to have some switch in options
which would allow to use anyone any representation he likes. The only
requirement is to provide ability for the user to set out-of-gamut colors,
like negative or very large numbers in any mode to avoid occasional color
clamping, I think.
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