Whither Krita?

[Sven Langkamp]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Matthew Woehlke <
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> Cyrille Berger wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> >>>> What would a 'color space change' mask be? Is there a case were it's
> >>>> needed to convert the colorspace manually with a mask?
> >>> Yes. Two cases actually, tone-mapping and raw. For raw, some of the
> >>> algorithms can be applied on a raw colorspace (well curves), some other
> >>> would need to be applied on a RGB one.
> >> I thought we'd said we wouldn't have a "RAW" colorspace, just va16¹?
> > That's not what the wiki says [1].
>
> Really?
>
> "Another option is to ignore the problem, accept that filters will not
> work correctly on bayer data, and import RAW directly into a 16-bit
> single channel (i.e. 'grayscale') layer. /At time of writing, this
> seemed to be the preferred option/ [...]" (emphasis added)
>
> ...and I certainly seem to recall that was the preferred solution. Much
> less special-casing, for one.
>
> > [1]
> >
> http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/Direct_RAW_Editing#A_Dedicated_Colorspace
>
> >> You
> >> can't debayer as a mask² anyway, it's a specialized convolution filter.
> > Why not ?
>
> You conveniently snipped that part of my previous message:
>
> >> (² at least I think not; wouldn't a cs-conversion mask normally be
> >> necessarily 1:1?)
>
> So... can a mask¹ implement a convolution filter, or a filter with
> configurable parameters? (Bayer -> other cs is not a 1:1 filter like
> most cs conversions, it is a convolution filter³, and there are multiple
> choices of algorithm (and maybe even parameters?).)
>
> (³ ...and not even a 'straight' convolution filter. Even disregarding
> that you use different formulae depending on what channel the pixel
> represents, you have different formulae for the edges as well.)
>
> (¹ Maybe the problem is I don't understand what a "mask" is in krita
> internals. When I hear "mask" I think an extra alpha channel that is
> used to control what parts of a layer are blended, i.e. same as how it
> is used in svg terminology. Clearly the "mask" you are talking about is
> something completely different. It sounds more like a filter that...
> well, ignores masks. Which is confusing.)
>

Krita has filter masks. A filter mask works like adustment layer with a
mask, with the difference that it only works on the layer it's applied to.
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