Re: [Gimp-developer] A file format to store process flow and original image untouched

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:48 PM, wwp wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> I wonder if there's such a storage format, that is, or will (or would
> eventually) be supported by Gimp?
>
> The idea is to get the process flow (modifications done to an image)
> stored to disk, allowing to undo/redo even after reopening the Gimp
> later, eventually reuse (parts of) the process flow and apply it to
> another image, etc.. I don't care if the process flow is stored with the
> original file in the same storage unit or separately.
>
> Anyway.. some comments?

Hi,

It's certainly doable. There is some free software like Ardour and
darktable that allows undo/redo across sessions.

We haven't really discussed XCF2 much, so I think it would be fair to
say that this is an open question. At some point we need to sit down
and write a functional spec.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org