I think this is a bug. If not, then it's a serious application design issue.

Shift+Q on grayscale pictures ignores color setup for quick mask. Default red appears as mid intensity gray which makes this great functionality useless on most occasions (for mottled pictures almost always).

Any thought or should I go for filling a bug report?!

Regards, Vladimir

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 18:08:28 Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

thinking about it, I don't think it can be fixed. Quick Mask is just a UI shortcut for using a channel. And a grayscale image can only have grayscale channels.

Unfortunately, I thought it's not simple thing to do. :(

So if you filed a bug report for this, we would probably have to close it as WONTFIX.

Hm... Wouldn't it be much more reasonable to give it a resolution like 2.6, 3.0 or even low-resolution-version-16.0-maybe?! There would be, at least, info that feature is being requested once and that it couldn't be implemented because of technical reasons, so that users do not request it again. Just a bad attitude for totally reasonable feature request, IMHO.

Isn't WONTFIX reserved for inappropriate wishes?!

Workaround is really easy, anyway: Find average pixel value for particular picture and give quick mask some high contrast gray value. Simple...

Regards, Vladimir

Sven

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 19:37:55 Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 21:30 +0000, Vladimir Savic wrote:

Workaround is really easy, anyway: Find average pixel value for particular picture and give quick mask some high contrast gray value. Simple...

Except that, as outlined already, quickmask is just a user interface to channels. And as long as we don't have spot color channels, it doesn't make sense to allow non-grayscale channels in a grayscale image.

The simple workaround is really to convert the image to RGB mode.

True! :) Funny but true... Seems like I always see harder way to achieve something... :)

Thanks,
Vladimir

Sven