Bruce Kinchin

Thanks for the fast response Red. Thanks also for the links, you've got a lot of cool stuff in there. Think I might use Furblur in an ongoing prank war on the our employee photo page. The rules are good to know, hope I can contribute back.

Is it possible to resize or crop an image in an effect? (or operate like the magic wand and set the current selection area?) I am developing a plugin with a set of effects to help in my job, one of which is to quickly identify a dialog in a screenshot and crop it (see example image). Given that the overridden Render method is dealing with ROI's (regions of interest) and updating an equally sized destination surface from a source surface, I'm thinking that an effect may not be the best place for this functionality. (Workaround: I could get the effect to set everything but the dialog to a single color making the magic wand selection tool with a low tolerance, then a selection inversion, able to identify the region to 'Crop to selection' work cleanly.)

Can I ask that this topic get pinned. Many thanks to Ego ... got me up to speed very fast. An update for VS2013 / PDN4 would be nice, would be happy to help if you want. Thanks again Ego.