Hi,
the following discussion on the CREATE mailing list looks
relevant for GIMP and GEGL, so I'd like to point you to this.
For those who don't know about OpenRaster: it's a graphical
interchange format for raster-based applications. Currently
MyPain and Drawpile use it and for GIMP there is an
[OpenRaster plug-in]. Perhaps the topic is sth. for LGM, too.
Kind regards,
Sven
[OpenRaster plug-in]:
http://registry.gimp.org/taxonomy/term/797
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On 17.1.2014 at 11:08 PM Andrew Chadwick wrote:
There is now some working code to test this concept out!
→
https://gitorious.org/mypaint/achadwick-mypaint/commits/layer-enhancements-exp
This partially implements the proposal at
→ https://gist.github.com/achadwick/7827931
To mask with this branch, open the layers panel, then drag a layer
"into" another layer to start building structure,
Group
├ Layer 1
└ Layer 2
then draw a mask in pure white in the top layer and something you want
to mask in the lower layer in any colour you like. Set the top layer's
compositing mode to "Destination In" using the right button menu, and
the bottom layer (and anything else in the group) will be masked by
the top layer. You may need to refresh the view by dragging it around
a bit at the moment, but this annoyance should be gone soon.
(It has to be in a group because MyPaint does non-isolated rendering
onto its internal background layer. Currently you see black if a layer
erases the background layer... The layer group implementation you see
here uses isolated rendering only, however, and the results of that
are then composited onto the background normally. This is just a
workaround for now, allowing some masking experiments.)
On 13 December 2013 12:01, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
I firmly intend to look into this into detail -- I'm not forgetting about it :-)
On Friday 06 December 2013 Dec 16:49:10 Andrew Chadwick wrote:
I'm in the process of (slowly and experimentally) refactoring the layers
code in MyPaint to add a bunch of fancy features like masking, nested
layers, and layer formats other than raster (but which either rasterize
(like SVG) or can be represented usefully as an icon (like basically
nothing right now)).
I've noticed that the OpenRaster specification will need to be updated
to support the Porter-Duff "in" operator, and I'd like to take the
opportunity to allow sub-stacks to be composited with user-specifiable
blending and compositing operators. Conveniently enough, the W3C
Compositing and Blending Level 1 specification has evolved into a very
helpful and complete form, and defines neatly an important aspect of how
"groups" in formats like SVG - equivalent to our nested stacks - should
be expected to render.
Therefore I'd like to update the OpenRaster draft specification[1] in
accordance with the attached proposal. See
https://gist.github.com/achadwick/7827931 in case the attachment hasn't
made it through the mailing list software.
[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster/Draft
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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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