[gimp-help-2] Update mode and convert-grayscale documentation
- From: Elle Stone <ellestone src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-help-2] Update mode and convert-grayscale documentation
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 13:30:47 +0000 (UTC)
commit 4b85e09374dc57a3e93668c010fac5813d974550
Author: Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>
Date: Sun Apr 2 09:29:40 2017 -0400
Update mode and convert-grayscale documentation
Updated screenshot added to image/mode.xml
Updated image/convert-grayscale to include higher bit depths
images/C/menus/image/mode.png | Bin 2305 -> 3050 bytes
src/menus/image/convert-grayscale.xml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/menus/image/mode.xml | 1 +
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/images/C/menus/image/mode.png b/images/C/menus/image/mode.png
index 538b435..0d7768f 100644
Binary files a/images/C/menus/image/mode.png and b/images/C/menus/image/mode.png differ
diff --git a/src/menus/image/convert-grayscale.xml b/src/menus/image/convert-grayscale.xml
index d7686f9..ed1547e 100644
--- a/src/menus/image/convert-grayscale.xml
+++ b/src/menus/image/convert-grayscale.xml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE sect2 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
"http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">
<!-- section history:
+ 2017-04-01 elle stone: update contents for GIMP 2.10
2007-03-08 alex falappa: added it translation
2005/10/25 created from image-mode.xml by axel.wernicke
-->
@@ -24,9 +25,38 @@
<para>
You can use the <guimenuitem>Grayscale</guimenuitem>
- command to convert your image to grayscale with 256 levels of gray, from 0
- (black) to 255 (white).
+ command to convert your image to grayscale. The resulting grayscale image
+ will have a single channel composed of various shades of gray ranging from
+ black to white.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The number of availabe tonal steps between black and white depends on the
+ image precision:</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>At integer precision:</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>An 8-bit integer grayscale image provides 255
+ available tonal steps from 0 (black) to 255 (white).</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>A 16-bit integer grayscale image provides 65535
+ available tonal steps from 0 (black) to 65535 (white).</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>A 32-bit integer grayscale image theoretically will
+ provide 4294967295 tonal steps from 0 (black) to 4294967295 (white).
+ But as high bit depth GIMP 2.10 does all internal processing at 32-bit
+ floating point precision, the actual number of steps will be no more
+ than the number of tonal steps available in a 32-bit floating point
+ image.</para></listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>At floating point precision the available number of tonal steps in a
+ grayscale image depends on the specified bit depth
+ (8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit) and the type of floating point that is
+ requested by the program (see
+ <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point">
+ Floating-point arithmetic</ulink> for details).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
<sect3>
<title>Activating the Command</title>
diff --git a/src/menus/image/mode.xml b/src/menus/image/mode.xml
index c2481ae..a2d35e0 100644
--- a/src/menus/image/mode.xml
+++ b/src/menus/image/mode.xml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE sect2 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
"http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">
<!-- section history:
+ 2017-04-01 elle stone: add new image
2007-04-01 KoSt: added 'no' translation
2007-03-13 alex falappa: fixed links in it translation
2005-10-29 de reviewed by axel.wernicke
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