[BoltBait's GPU Accelerated Plugin Pack for Paint.NET v5.0 (Updated 2024-04-29)]

Improvement proposal

Add a GUI to allow choosing the strenght of blurring in the "Selection > Blur Selection Edge" plugin.

Might be useful on "large" images or where the border must be strongly smoothed

[How to smoothen alpha borders?]

I've an image which has "hard" alpha-transparency (=pixels are either fully transparent or not transparent at all).

I'd like to smoothen the transition so that the "last" pixels on the frontiers become progressively more transparent, so that once overlapped with the background it will blend more softly.

 

let me represent this on one dimension:

 

Currently I've

Image: 000000DDDDDDD   (0=empty, D=data)
Alpha: 0000009999999   (0= fully transparent ...  9=not transparent at all)

 

Id' want to get to:

Image: 000000DDDDDDD   (0=empty, D=data)
Alpha: 0000001369999   (0= fully transparent ...  9=not transparent at all)

 

I guess there might be a plugin which does this but I couldn't find it.

I found plugins which allow feathering the selection but:

• this does effect the content of the image too, not just the alpha channel
• this does "expand" the selection, whereas here I need to create the softening in the inside (because there's no data pixel outside the image)

[Feature suggestion: automatic support for jpeg-recompress!]

This tool: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive
Does really a great job at minimizing JPEG size without sacrificing quality.
I use it as part of my standard export workflow with Lightroom but would be great to see it integrated into paint.net !!!