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[APShredder]

BlendModes Plus

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Have you ever wished that Paint.NET had more blend modes like some of those "other, more expensive" image editors? Well now your wish just came true! And now just for the low price of $500 FREE!

This plugin can be found in Effects --> Tools --> BlendModes Plus.

Basically, all you have to do is open the plugin, load an image, and choose your blend mode. Right now the current blend modes available are:

Normal
Additive
Average
Blue
Color
Color Burn
Color Dodge
Cyan
Darken
Difference
Divide
Exclusion
Glow
Grain Extract
Grain Merge
Green
Hard Light
Hard Mix
Hue
Lighten
Linear Burn
Linear Dodge
Linear Light
Luminosity
Magenta
Multiply
Negation
Overlay
Phoenix
Pin Light
Red
Reflect
Saturation
Screen
Signed Difference
Soft Light
Stamp
Vivid Light
Yellow

And even though this list is kinda long, I plan to add more blend modes before long.

Blend Mode Descriptions:
Here is just a quick rundown of what all the blend modes do.

Hidden Content:

Here are the to images I'm going to use.

Normal

I don't think this mode needs much of description. The final image is the blend image.

Average

This mode is good for blending two images together. Nothing special.

Blue

This mode replaces the blue channel of the base image with the blue channel of the blend image.

Color

This mode replaces the hue and saturation of the base image with the hue and saturation of the blend image.

Cyan

This mode replaces the cyan channel of the base image with the cyan channel of th blend image.

Divide


Grain Extract


Grain Merge


Green

This mode replaces the green channel of the base image with the green channel of the blend image.

Hard Light


Hard Mix

This mode causes the resulting image to either be black, white, red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, or magenta.

Hue

This mode replaces the hue of the base image with the hue of the blend image.

Linear Burn

This mode will always make you image darker.

Linear Dodge

This mode will always make you image lighter.

Linear Light

This mode is similar to Linear Burn except the blend image is more noticeable.

Luminosity

This mode replaces the luminosity of the base image with the luminosity of the blend image.

Magenta

This mode replaces the magenta channel of the base image with the magenta channel of the blend image.

Pin Light

This mode causes light parts of the blend image and dark parts of the base image to show through.

Red

This mode replaces the red channel of the base image with the red channel of the blend image.

Saturation

This mode replaces the saturation of the base image with the saturation of the blend image.

Signed Difference

Stamp

This mode is good for applying textures to images.

Yellow

This mode replaces the yellow channel of the base image with the yellow channel of the blend image.

The UI:


And of course, all questions, comments, suggestions, and crash logs are welcome. :wink:

Plugin Log:
3/24/10 - Organizer updated, multiple blend modes can be selected and moved at once.
3/13/10 - New blend modes added. (Additive, Color Burn, Color Dodge, Difference, Glow, Multiply, Negation, Overlay, Reflect, Screen)
Maximum and Minimum renamed to Lighten and Darken.
Organizational system added.
2/27/10 - New blend modes added. (Exclusion, Maximum, Minimum, Phoenix, Soft Light)
11/8/09 - Fixed some bugs.
11/8/09 - Copy From Clipboard Added, New blend mode added (Signed Difference)
10/30/09 - New blend mode added. (Vivid Light)
10/27/09 - New blend modes added. (Divide, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, and Hard Light)
10/25/09 - Plugin taken out of beta.
10/22/09 - Checkbox added to switch "layers".
10/21/09 - Beta version of plugin uploaded.

Edited by Ego Eram Reputo, 16 July 2012 - 02:56 AM.
Edited to fix caching error

[david.atwell]

Brilliant! We need more like this. This is what a plugin should be.

You know what? I don't care that it's still in Beta. I'm stickying it. :-)

[APShredder]

WOW! That has to be the fastest sticky I've ever seen! Thanks David!

[Crazy Man Dan]

Well, I tested some of yours against the equivalent blend modes in The GIMP - don't have Photoshop to test - and the ones I could test range from pretty close to spot-on. Burn and Color in particular don't seem to mesh luminosity-wise, but others - Dodge, Hue, Saturation, Value (Luminosity) - seem to be right close.

I've uploaded a 90% quality JPG as well as a full-quality PNG, in case you want to take a look.

JPG (1.37MB)
PNG (5.22MB)

[APShredder]

Thanks CMD! They do look pretty close, if I do say so myself.

[Illnab1024]

Also, if you want some kind of suggestions on how the math works in The GIMP, you can always download the source Blend modes are in...
/app/base/base-enums.h:68 is the enum typedef,
/app/composite/gimp-composite-generic.c is where some math's at.


Additionally, for the sake of simplicity and being able to expand without getting confused really quickly, make an enum with all your blendmodes in it and a function of two surfaces (left-hand side, right-hand side) that uses the blend mode. It will be far less confusing than a huge switch in the middle of your render function. And also, with that, your drop-down list can just return the struct name instead of a string. Just a suggestion.

[TopHATslash]

Wow, great work. I can definitely see a later version of this incorporated into PdN 4.0..

[Kemaru]

Incredible. I'm downloading it right away!

[Boude]

I love you!

[pipp92]

fantastic plugin
if this would be integrated in pdn it would be awesome
so it's a bit complicated if you have to load an image before applying a blend mode :-/

[Simon Brown]

if this would be integrated in pdn it would be awesome

..or if there was support for blend mode plugins.

[pyrochild]

Cool plugin. You should add a checkbox to switch the order of the "layers."

[APShredder]

Thanks everyone for your support and suggestions!

@Illnab: I'm trying out your suggestions right now, but I think I might just keep it like I have it for now.

@pyrochild: D'oh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. That'll be a great improvement for this plugin Thanks!

EDIT: Just uploaded the version with the checkbox that switches the "layers".

[Kemaru]

I must say, you're one of the fastest plugin authors to update.

[flip]

This looks really useful. Thanks a bunch.

[Blooper]

Excellent work, chap.

[APShredder]

Okay everybody, due to the great amount of satisfactory reviews I've been getting, I've decided to remove the beta label from the plugin. Everyone seems to be happy with it so far, and I haven't got a single complaint yet, so keep on enjoying it!

[LFC4EVER]

You, sir, make epic plugins. I thank you.

[APShredder]

You're welcome.

[Goonfella]

Just downloaded the plug in and I`m very impressed. Well done. :wink: