The architecture and architect shouldn't be writing software. Complete hack with no knowledge of image editing. Chase down Elle Stone's posts on how fundamentally broken it is.
Shortlist:
1. Hideously over-engineered pixel path makes performance, if at all possible, worse.
2. Broken concept of colour management and pixels. See sRGB debacle and the concept of hard coded spaces.
3. Anachronism of imaging model.
4. Ignored fundamental problems that many people pointed out years ago. See the ridiculous "unbounded mode" that even a 100 level image computer student could have demonstrated would never work.
5. As per 4., ignored all evidence and designed a worthless software model around.
This is why we can't have nice things. Open source development that improves the lives of millions of people is still flamed because of choices made far in the past that are very hard to fix means that it "needs to die".
Look - irrespective of the truth of the message, remember that there are humans reading it and framing matters
"LNB and CCE both allow the user to easily produce radiometrically correct editing results. LNB provides fewer user choices for blend modes and for various operations, but the defaults for the operations and blend modes that I've looked at are logical and useable."
LNB is the linear-is-the-new-black branch of upstream GIMP. CCE is her patched version.
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The architecture and architect shouldn't be writing software. Complete hack with no knowledge of image editing. Chase down Elle Stone's posts on how fundamentally broken it is.
Shortlist:
1. Hideously over-engineered pixel path makes performance, if at all possible, worse.
2. Broken concept of colour management and pixels. See sRGB debacle and the concept of hard coded spaces.
3. Anachronism of imaging model.
4. Ignored fundamental problems that many people pointed out years ago. See the ridiculous "unbounded mode" that even a 100 level image computer student could have demonstrated would never work.
5. As per 4., ignored all evidence and designed a worthless software model around.
Etc.
The project needs to die.
This is why we can't have nice things. Open source development that improves the lives of millions of people is still flamed because of choices made far in the past that are very hard to fix means that it "needs to die".
Look - irrespective of the truth of the message, remember that there are humans reading it and framing matters
Oh, let's!
http://ninedegreesbelow.com/files/linear-is-the-new-black.ht...
"LNB and CCE both allow the user to easily produce radiometrically correct editing results. LNB provides fewer user choices for blend modes and for various operations, but the defaults for the operations and blend modes that I've looked at are logical and useable."
LNB is the linear-is-the-new-black branch of upstream GIMP. CCE is her patched version.