Merge pull request #6962 from dotCooCoo/fix/trace-tinted-photos

Image Trace: sepia, single-hue and duotone photos are smoothed as gray photos are

docs/target-app-parity.md

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 - **Image Trace, thin closed outlines:** generated `fit::snap_area_tests` verify nonzero interiors after straightening, opposite closed-boundary winding and Noise controls; see [quality notes](image-trace-quality.md#thin-closed-outlines-with-snap-curves-to-lines). Scores and hours unchanged; open-piece fitting is unchanged.
 - **Image Trace, curve fitting tolerance:** the outline fitter keeps cutting a run while a point stays farther than the tolerance from its curve, so a run of fewer than six points or one cut 14 times no longer keeps a piece over the tolerance. Pieces already within the tolerance do not change, and noisy art can get more anchors. Tests: `logo::bezier::tests`, `logo::outline::tests`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Image Trace, gray photos:** Color and Grayscale smooth a gray photo within its tones before choosing its colors, as they do a color photo. A picture with at least 95% of its opaque pixels within 8 levels across their channels counts as continuous tone when 8 colors leave an error of more than 6 levels and more than 0.065 of the error of one color, instead of 0.1, unless 16 colors leave at most a fifth of the error of 8 (VectorCraft's own values). That exception keeps gray flat art of up to 16 clean levels on its old route; anti-aliased or noisy gray flat art can now count as continuous tone too. Most gray photos the change reaches, and very noisy gray scans of flat art, trace with fewer specks and fewer staircase edges. Some 16 Colors and High Fidelity Photo palettes of gray photos grow toward the requested count, with more anchors and regions. Some gray illustrations and sketches get more anchors and staircase edges at 16 Colors and High Fidelity Photo, and some 6 Colors traces get more staircase edges. Tests: `tests::a_gray_photo_is_continuous_tone_as_its_color_original_is`, `tests::a_gray_photo_is_smoothed_before_it_is_traced`. Scores and hours unchanged.
+- **Image Trace, tinted photos:** Color and Grayscale smooth a sepia, single-hue or duotone photo within its tones before choosing its colors, as they do a gray photo. A picture with at least 95% of its opaque pixels within 6 levels of its tone curve counts as continuous tone under the same 0.065 rule as a neutral picture. The tone curve runs through the median color of each 8-level stretch along the direction in which the picture's colors spread the most, and a pixel on it must also lie within 6 levels of the plane the colors spread along most, so art in several unrelated colors is not counted (VectorCraft's own rule and values). The neutral rule's exception for 16 colors leaving at most a fifth of the error of 8 applies to it too. Clean tinted bands of 2, 3 and 9 levels and tinted scans of flat art with up to 8 levels of noise stay on the flat-art route. On the synthetic tinted photos the 16 Colors trace keeps 12 to 15 colors instead of 6 to 13, with 525 to 708 anchors instead of up to 1,402. A duotone with strong noise on each channel can still miss the curve and stay unsmoothed. Tests: `tests::a_tinted_photo_is_continuous_tone_as_a_gray_photo_is`, `tests::small_accents_of_other_colors_leave_a_tinted_photo_continuous_tone`, `tests::tinted_flat_art_stays_flat_art`, `tests::pictures_without_tones_are_not_continuous_tone`, `tests::a_tinted_photo_is_smoothed_before_it_is_traced`. Scores and hours unchanged.
 - **Image Trace, Document Library color groups:** with Document Swatches, the panel's Colors menu and `"colorGroup"` trace with one color group's colors instead of every swatch, as the public panel documentation describes Document Library; code-drawn tests in `crates/engine` and the panel.
 - **Image Trace, Document Library colors:** with Document Swatches, traced fills and strokes use the displayed colors of process, global, spot and tint swatches without links, so editing a swatch leaves the trace unchanged; swatch-library colors are also unlinked; code-drawn tests in `crates/engine`.
 - **Image Trace, flattened slivers:** in a Color, Grayscale or Black and White trace with Fills, a traced region whose outline straightens onto one line (a single pixel, or a one-pixel row along an edge, its pieces shared with the regions beside it) is left out instead of becoming a selectable path with no area, which paints nothing. Snap Curves To Lines straightens more outlines, so it leaves out more of these. Without Fills, the region's 1 px stroke draws it, and it is kept. Code-drawn tests in `crates/trace`.