Gsoc 2011: PSD File import/export Support for Krita

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 26 April 2011 Apr, Tom M wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> OIIO has a student working on PSD importer and exporter,
> 
> perhaps the student for Krita could add oiio support for Krita/KDE and
> then assist with the PSD for OIIO?

Oh-oh. I wish we had been in contact before. I'm not actually sure this is possible at this moment... It's now my task to mentor Siddharth, and I simply haven't got a clue at all about OIIO. I had to google for it, even...

> They you would get a bunch more formats for free, and they tend to be
> very battle hardened and robust (Quite a few major film studios are
> using it and probably most will be using it within a few years).

I really need more time than we have now to look at OIIO and investigate its suitability for Krita. We used to use ImageMagick, but that failed for us because of lack of api stability and lack of support for various colorspaces. Before I'm really sure about OIIO, I wouldn't want to commit us there. And our current file format support is actually very good, thanks to Cyrille's work.

> Hopefully eventually all opensource will move over to OIIO instead of
> each of us implementing bindings to each new image library etc.  (I'd
> planned to contact the project leads for Gimp, Krita, and Mypaint at
> least, and us at Blender are looking at migrating to it as well - will
> talk with Lary Gritz and Pippin perhaps there is a way to merge oiio
> and babl even).
> 
> The library is new BSD so compatible with everything.
> 
> Also two brains on PSD is probably better than one.
> 
> They tend to add complete support for 3 to 6 formats a year, so you
> get a lot of new format support for free into the future this way and
> guaranteed bug fixers.

I will definitely investigate in depth -- but we simply cannot change Siddharth's project at this late a stage, I am afraid.

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org