Krita and LAB

[Matthew Woehlke]

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007, thompson4822 wrote:
>> 2) Once I have made color adjustments, either via a layer or directly to a
>> LAB image, I cannot seem to convert it to a format that I can save (ie;
>> jpg) without losing my color changes.
> 
> jpg doesn't support lab -- if I first convert back to rgb and then save, I 
> definitely have the changed version on my hd. 
> 
> But: if we convert a lab image with a an adj layer that works on lab colors 
> back to rgb the filter configuration in the adj. layer makes no sense 
> anymore. Hm... Hard to say how we can best fix that. It's pretty hard to 
> figure out how to convert a lab color adjustment to an equivalent rgb color 
> adjustment. If you want to save as jpg, better first flatten, then convert to 
> rgb then save to jpg -- that way your adjustments will be kept.

Does jpeg support adjustments at all (or *anything* other than a 
flattened image)? AFAIK when saving as e.g. jpeg in other paint 
programs, e.g. that Adobe one, or GIMP, the export step does a flatten 
automatically. Shouldn't Krita do this also? Or am I misunderstanding 
the problem?

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Matthew
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