Re: [Gimp-developer] Three questions about opening an image and converting it to linear light RGB

[Ville Sokk <ville sokk gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Elle Stone
<ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> I'm still testing the other gimp/app/operations layer blend modes. But
> probably *all* clamping code should be removed from *all* layer blend modes.
>
> Elle's two cents worth

I would like to mention that the current blending modes were created
to replace the old 8-bit ones. I was told they should be as close as
possible to the old ones (so you could open images made with <=2.8 in
2.10 and they would look the same). There have been talks about adding
blending modes with normal formulas (without clamping and other weird
stuff) but this hasn't happened yet. I think people weren't sure how
to show both sets of blending modes in the UI.