Re: OpenEXR files with nonlinearly encoded RGB

Elle Stone <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:02:00 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/23/2015 11:45 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
I know that! :) . The comments about "Krita not reading floating point 
tiffs" and "tiffs having various ways to write files" weren't meant to 
be read as causally linked in any way! But I've been attempting to share 
floating point tiffs between different editing applications for several 
years now, and there does seem to often be a "communication gap". I've 
never had an OpenEXR image not open correctly when shared between 
applications that read and write OpenEXR, as long as the right ICC 
profile is assigned upon opening.

Elle