Sakana Oji

I wish I could learn how to make a plugin of this... but I don't even know the code for the displacement plugin! Gaaaah!

Some images are missing, and when I converted it to a PDF, they're still missing. You need EER to provide a PDF with all the images.

Since you created CodeLab in the first place, could you teach me how to apply two effects in a plugin? I'm working on a HDR plugin and I'm trying to add a "Brightness/Contrast" effect to it before the "Gaussian Blur" effect - but I seem to get errors. Any tips and help?

Okay, I'm back online. I'm still at Harley so Bitdefender is preventing me from getting a Dropbox account, so it might be a while...

I'll publish it tomorrow, it's getting late now - about 8.30. I'll have a coffee and then I'm off to bed. Goodnight everybody!

Never mind, fixed it. Turns out I have an older version of Paint.net so the "Exception" error was fixed and I was able to build it. Thanks past self!

I like at the Harley house at the moment. I don't have permission from admin rights, and I can't install it properly.

Here you go: // Name: Color Intensifier // Submenu: Color // Author: Sakana Oji // Title: Color Intensifier // Version: 1.0 // Desc: Intensifies the colors of the picture // Keywords: intensity|color // URL: http://www.getpaint.net/redirect/plugins.html // Help: #region UICode #endregion // Setup for calling the Brightness and Contrast Adjustment function BrightnessAndContrastAdjustment bacAdjustment = new BrightnessAndContrastAdjustment(); PropertyCollection bacProps; // Setup for using pixel op private UnaryPixelOps.Desaturate desaturateOp = new UnaryPixelOps.Desaturate(); private UnaryPixelOps.Invert invertOp = new UnaryPixelOps.Invert(); // Setup for using Reflect blend op private BinaryPixelOp reflectOp = LayerBlendModeUtil.CreateCompositionOp(LayerBlendMode.Reflect); protected override void OnDispose(bool disposing) { // Release any surfaces or effects you've created. if (bacAdjustment != null) bacAdjustment.Dispose(); bacAdjustment = null; base.OnDispose(disposing); } void PreRender(Surface dst, Surface src) { bacProps = bacAdjustment.CreatePropertyCollection(); PropertyBasedEffectConfigToken bacParameters = new PropertyBasedEffectConfigToken(bacProps); bacParameters.SetPropertyValue(BrightnessAndContrastAdjustment.PropertyNames.Brightness, 0); bacParameters.SetPropertyValue(BrightnessAndContrastAdjustment.PropertyNames.Contrast, -1); bacAdjustment.SetRenderInfo(bacParameters, new RenderArgs(dst), new RenderArgs(src)); } // Here is the main render loop function void Render(Surface dst, Surface src, Rectangle rect) { // Call the Brightness and Contrast Adjustment function bacAdjustment.Render(new Rectangle[1] {rect},0,1); // Now in the main render loop, the dst canvas has an adjusted version of the src canvas for (int y = rect.Top; y < rect.Bottom; y++) { if (IsCancelRequested) return; for (int x = rect.Left; x < rect.Right; x++) { ColorBgra CurrentPixel = dst[x,y]; // TODO: Add additional pixel processing code here CurrentPixel = desaturateOp.Apply(CurrentPixel); CurrentPixel = invertOp.Apply(CurrentPixel); CurrentPixel = reflectOp.Apply(src[x,y], CurrentPixel); dst[x,y] = CurrentPixel; } } } I don't know how to do that "codie-thingy" by the way

Yes, of course you do.

Oh Dinkleberg! I didn't know I have to post a link to that - Here you go: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/20756-vhs-look/?tab=comments#comment-344996 Apparently, it belongs in the Graveyard due to no screenshots or something. I put screenshots in my tut, so it's bound to be better.

Thanks @ReMake, but I still get the error: "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." How do I fix this?

I knew that. Still sorry.

That wasn't really helpful, and besides, you used caps too, no offense. I just want to know how to fix my CodeLab error. Oh, and sorry.

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it The older VHS tutorial was alright, but sometimes the colors just seep through and it doesn't look good. So I have decided to make a newer, more improved tutorial. For this tutorial, I shall be using this image: Plugins needed: Curves+ Average Blur (optional) Smooth (optional) Extract Channel Panelling Splinter 1. Resize the image so that it has a maximum height of 480. It works best with landscape-size images. 2. Open Curves+, and use the "Lighten" preset. 3. Duplicate the image, and use Emboss with an angle of 90. Then set the blend mode to "Overlay" with an opacity of 128. Then merge the layers together. 4. Use Add Noise, with an intensity of 36 and the color saturation set to 50. 5. (Optional) Use Average Blur with a radius of 1. This will make the image more softer and of lower quality. (You could also use Smooth if you like) 6. Duplicate the image 3 times. Name the layers from top to bottom: Red Glare, Red, Green and Blue. Use Extract Channel, with Grayscale unchecked, on layers names "Red Glare" and "Red", with the Channel option set to Red. Then extract the Green channel on the "Green" layer, and the Blue channel on the "Blue" layer. 7. Uncheck the Red Glare layer for now. Set the blend modes of layers "Red" and "Green" to Additive. 8. (Optional) On the Blue layer, use Brightness/Contrast and set the Contrast to 10. This gives the image a slight yellow tint, making it look "vintage". 9. Use Panelling on the Red layer, and set the Move Horizontal setting to 2. Then on the Blue, use Panelling, and this time move it horizontally by -1. This makes the image look kind of old. 10. Check the Red Glare layer. Use Panelling, and set the Move Horizontal setting to the width of the image multiplied by 0.03. In this case, I shall use the setting of 26. (The width of my tutorial image is 853 and I got 25.59 when I multiplied it by 0.03. You need to round it up, as the Panelling plugin does not support decimal numbers. 11. Use Splinter, either use default settings or set the splinter value to 5. I used the latter. Then use Unfocus at default settings. (This is the Red Glare layer on its own. I unchecked the rest of the layers.) 12. Set the blend mode of the Red Glare layer to Overlay with an opacity of 100. Make sure the Red layer is below it, then merge the two layers. Make sure the merged layer has a Blend Mode of Additive. (This is the merged layer on its own.) The finished image should now look like this: 13. If you don't want the terrible looking color edges on your image, follow these instructions: Copy and/or import this edge image into PDN: 14. Resize it to fit your image. 15. Put it in a new layer on top of your image, then set the blend mode to Multiply. 16. Use Unfocus with a radius of 10. You are now done! In the words of Dwayne Johnson, what can I say except you're welcome.

I'd really like to make a simple plugin of this with Codelab, but I don't know the codes for "Black and White" and "Curves"

It keeps saying "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." HOW DO YOU FIX THIS?! I NEED TO KNOW!

Great effect, ReMake, but I don't know why you'd go for a Darken blend mode for the background. What's it for?

Okay thanks! I thought it was placental alkaline phosphatase. (I googled PLAP)

What's a PLAP?

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Today I will be showing you how to make the tie-dye effect in Paint.net, like this: Plugins needed: toe_head2001's Droste pyrochild's Curves+ Toli's Smooth (optional) Instructions: Step 1. Insert any texture, or just draw stuff. For this tutorial, I shall use the Paintbrush. Step 2. Apply Droste. You can play with the settings to suit your mood, but I shall crank up the Repeat Per Turn option to max. Step 3. Use any effective blur plugin. Zoom Blur will be used for this tutorial. Step 4. Crank the saturation all the way up with Curves+. You may also maximize the Value if you don't want the ugly white bits. (Also, please ignore the error I made with the text in the next picture. The whole text.) Step 5: You're done! You can use the Smooth plugin if you don't want all those choppy pixelly edges, but as you can see, I'm pretty sure I didn't use that on my tutorial result. What are the odds? Well, this is the end of the tutorial. I'd love to see what you've come up with. Thanks!

I personally think the "Air Bubble" one looks better than the "Opalescent" one to be honest. Still in need of some tips here!

Does anyone have any tips on how to make my image look better in any way? I mean, my Dud picture was good, but I think there's something about the lead that isn't right. If there's anything that seems nice to me, that would be appreciated.

Good, because I already did that. Thanks Lynxy!

Thank you, that helped a lot!