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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: a question on krita doc
From:       Sander Koning <sanderkoning () kde ! nl>
Date:       2006-05-11 16:37:22
Message-ID: 20060511163722.GS3540 () macedon ! demon ! nl
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Gregory Mokhin wrote on 2006-05-11 07:36 -0400 regarding Re: a question on krita doc:
> On 5/11/06, Sander Koning <sanderkoning@kde.nl> wrote:
> >Gregory Mokhin wrote on 2006-05-10 21:11 -0400 regarding a question on 
> >krita doc:
> >> Could you please help to understand the meaning of the following
> >> sentence from krita doc?
> >>
> >> &krita; handles selections with a mask where each pixel is given any of
> >> 256 levels between selected and unselected
> >
> >Hi Gregory,
> >
> >What it means is the following: usually, selections are "in or out": a 
> >pixel is
> >either selected or it is not. Krita uses a more sophisticated way, in which
> >pixels can be fully selected, fully unselected, or partially selected. In 
> >total,
> >there are 256 levels of selection. I don't know the technical details, but
> >probably 0 is unselected and 255 is fully selected.
> >
> >Partially selected pixels are only partially affected by operations, e.g.
> >color changing - the operation will only take (for example) 1/2 of the 
> >pixel
> >color values. So if a white pixel is coloured red, but is only half 
> >selected, it
> >will become a color midway between white and red.
> >
> >Hope that this is clear enough.
> >
> 
> Hello Sander,
> 
> clear enough indeed, thank you very much. If possible, I'd suggest to
> rephrase it as follows:
> 
> For processing selected objects &krita; applies a mask. Each pixel of
> the selection is processed based on a value of its mask, or the "level
> of the selection",  that can range from 0 (unselected) to 255
> (selected).
> 
> Hope it is precise (esp. in terms of 0 == unselected) and more 
> understandable.

Will take it along (at least, if I remember ;P) for the next version.

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