Introduction and New Composite Ops - Hard light and Soft Light

[Warren Baird]

Hi all,

As a bit of background, I'm a photographer who creates images by 
layering several photographs together with various compositing modes to 
produce interesting textures and patterns.   You can see some of my 
stuff at http://www.synergisticimages.ca (warning, some of the images 
there might be NSFW).

I know Krita is more focused on 'creative' work than a project like 
gimp, but I'm not sure whether what I do really hits the use cases you 
are trying to target.

I've been a Gimp user for years - but I'm starting to get fed up waiting 
for 16b support, and I'd like to start making full use of the RAW mode 
on my camera.

I'll probably kick in some comments about how my particular form of 
creativity is impacted by various design decisions.  Feel free to tell 
me if my comments are far enough from your target use cases so to be 
irrelevant.

I also worked as a software developer for 10 years, mostly doing C++ 
development on UNIX and Linux.   I don't have much time for coding these 
days, but I'll try to submit patches now and again.

In this case, I've got a patch that adds composite ops that match the 
Gimp's Hard Light and Soft Light modes, which I make heavy use of.

The question I have is:  Should I submit these against the 1.6 tree or 
the 2.0 tree?   Or both, I guess?

Warren