On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings, > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Gimp is limited to handling 8 bit color depth only. > > From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP > > [quote] > GEGL > The Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) was first introduced as part of > GIMP on the 2.6 release of GIMP. This initial introduction does not > yet exploit all of the capabilities of GEGL; as of the 2.6 release, > GIMP can use GEGL to perform high bit-depth color operations; because > of this less information is lost when performing color operations.[33] > When fully integrated, GEGL will allow GIMP to have a higher color bit > depth and also a better non-destructive work-flow. > [/quote] > > Yes, Support for 16 bits is expected in release 3.0 Regards, Arun _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
