Re: OpenEXR files with nonlinearly encoded RGB

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Elle Stone wrote:

> Floating point tiff doesn't seem to be as well supported as OpenEXR in the 
> various free/libre editing applications. For example at present Krita 2.9 
> can't read or write a floating point tiff but reads and writes OpenEXR images 
> with no problems.

Yes... But that's just a stupid bug because in 2008 or so, when we wrote 
the support for 32 bit/channel tiff files, we didn't realize we mixing up 
integers and floats. And nobody ever tried that feature ever since!

I'll get down to fixing it after the next release :-)

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> Apparently the tiff specs encompass many different ways of writing an image.
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> From a user perspective, if tiff (or PPM) doesn't work for sharing high bit 
> depth RGB data between ICC profile color managed editing applications, maybe 
> the applications can read and write OpenEXR.
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