Thanks for asking, C2PM isn’t meant to replace raster formats it serves as an intermediate format for workflows where users repeatedly operate on color groups

Thanks for asking, C2PM isn’t meant to replace raster formats it serves as an intermediate format for workflows where users repeatedly operate on color groups (palette swaps, region recoloring, mask generation, etc). In a standard image, every color swap requires rescanning all pixels. In C2PM, the color to pixel index is already stored, so repeated swaps or multi-color operations become O(1) per color instead of O(P) per operation. It’s designed for tools where color groups matter more than spatial order, not for real-time display or GPU textures.